The vape scene thing was going to be a recurring thing (think Fast show, "that seat's taken mate") of going into the local shop and having to deal with shit like that, sometimes he'll just give up and go for Marlborough instead, sometimes he won't.
But completely agree, that length has not been earned for an opening scene.
Listen, lad, unless you are intending on getting copious amounts of ethnics, women and aspirational homes in gentrified London locations into the mix, just save us all the bother. The amount of shit like Starstruck that gets released to wide acclaim almost purely down to those factors is mad.
The missus' best mate is a manager of OnlyFans talent. By manager, I mean she chats with the Mahows and manages the account, all the actual girl does is post up the odd bit of content and meet specific requests from the manager. Some of the tales she has write themselves. Vials of spit for £50, dates with 70 year old sugar daddies who 'just want company', some of the fan art...add in the dynamic that the central character is a muslim girl and you have what can only be described as the perfect storm for a sitcom that will take the world by storm in the coming years.
Flicking through Sky and the first episode of Peep Show is on Gold now.
And your mind is a terrifying place Don.
Because I doubt that anyone is investing any amount of money and letting someone who has never directed anything to take the role. Do you plan to do the photography yourself too?
I could be wrong, of course. I am sure that someone will come up with some example of this or that who did just that.
Gervais himself calls it a watershed as it had never happened before, but they filmed bits of what it would look like first in order to seal the deal.
But and in any case, there's no point concerning oneself with any of that now.
Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant were reasonably well-known showbiz figures with a fair bit of telly under their belts (I don't know why he's so ashamed of Meet Ricky Gervais), and it was also made in an era when the BBC comedy people were probably allowed to take punts on all sorts of shit with no budgetary oversight. A better model would be This Country, which was largely commissioned off YouTube stuff and a failed pilot, although they had to work with better-known writers and a director (and are probably glad they did). Unless you knock out literally the best script in twenty years, insisting that you get to control everything sounds like the surest way to make sure nothing ever happens.
If you and Baz are up for that then great.
Like they've written it about this.
Interesting. I need to play on that hugely then I think. I am not a writer, let alone a famous one.
It wasn't meant to be similar in that way. Also not necessarily directed at you. It was more of a general point that thinking that you will be the one to do things differently (because one outstanding person has managed before) is a bit foolish. Chances are, you are not the special one. Again, I don't mean you you, but you as in anyone.
Can you two stop tickling eachother's balls like utter repressed melts? Fucking seeing Yev's 6 word sentences as he tries to restrain himself whilst Pepe has 4 caveats for every 3 words used to protect himself. This is what happens when society is softened to this degree.
Weren't you the one who chimped out and left for a few years because we mocked your new username? Go sit in the corner with Magic.
Don.
I would watch his thing with the onlyfans. @Don, I will help you with the pilot.
How is there not an online tool for writing scripts? Are people seriously still formatting their own shit like it's a 2010 uni dissertation? Put down the artistry paintbrush and work on making something like that that can incorporate basic storyboards too.
One of my mates has gone deep into the reddit virgin community whilst writing scripts too so it must be a very in thing to be getting involved in judging by TTH numbers.
Scripts seem so boring to me.
Suburban street, ext. DAVE and GLADYS stand beside a wheely bin. A cat is sat on a nearby wall.
DAVE
Put the cat in the bin, would ya?
GLADYS
Sure thing, darlin'.
GLADYS puts the cat in a bin. DAVE laughs. Enter BORIS.
BORIS
*loud pig-like noise*
So, so boring. Each to his own, I guess.
They're not meant to be read.
Exactly, so fuck wanting to write one. Might as well want to write machinery manuals.
Not quite. Life took over and having been back at work this week haven't felt like doing much on it in the evenings.
You need to get back into your shag - write a scene - shag process, clearly.
That was a great night. Not sitcom worthy, but great nonetheless.
Nobody has 'so shit it's funny' sex.