Fri, Nov 27, 2009
Pilot episode to a potential sitcom about an American advertiser (David Cross) who takes a job running the sales team at the London branch of his company trying to sell a new energy drink, but he has no experience of British culture, knows nothing about sales and has only one employee.
Fri, Nov 6, 2009
Jonty De Wolfe is the eccentric, cross-dressing vice-chancellor at the red-brick Kirke university. When Jason, the chief finance officer, accidentally authorizes paying the staff two lots of wages, thus putting the university into millions of pounds of debt, De Wolfe has to look for a solution. Plain Jane Maths lecturer Imogen Moffatt has written a best-selling book, which De Wolfe hopes will attract the 'foreigns' to Kirke. Now De Wolfe wants English lecturer Matt Beer to write another book to emulate Imogen's. Unfortunately Matt is a lazy womanizer and it looks as if the only way De Wolfe can come up with damage limitation is to fire a quarter of the staff.
Fri, Oct 5, 2007
Greg Wilson (Martin Freeman) is an ex-child star. At fourteen, he was a child magician. Precocious, smug, very punchable.
The pinnacle of his career was the 1986 Royal Variety Performance, when he charmed the audience with his patter about his Mum sewing name-tags into the backs of all his tricks.
One week later, his career is finished. During a phone-in on the Saturday morning kids TV show, Crikey Its Saturday!, someone rings in and calls Greg a fucking wanker on live TV. Its the ultimate humiliation. The caller has articulated what everyone is secretly thinking. Its a blow from which Greg will never recover.
Twenty years later, Greg works in a leather sofa shop. The early promise of his life unfulfilled. Hes bored, unhappy, still hurting on the inside, forever wary of other people. In every human encounter lies potential humiliation.
Even his boss, who looks about 13, treats Greg with utter contempt.
But then Greg is recognised by a customer and asked for his autograph. It's the beginning of a journey that will pass through a police station and end with Greg in court, facing a year-long prison sentence.
Hell is other people...
The pinnacle of his career was the 1986 Royal Variety Performance, when he charmed the audience with his patter about his Mum sewing name-tags into the backs of all his tricks.
One week later, his career is finished. During a phone-in on the Saturday morning kids TV show, Crikey Its Saturday!, someone rings in and calls Greg a fucking wanker on live TV. Its the ultimate humiliation. The caller has articulated what everyone is secretly thinking. Its a blow from which Greg will never recover.
Twenty years later, Greg works in a leather sofa shop. The early promise of his life unfulfilled. Hes bored, unhappy, still hurting on the inside, forever wary of other people. In every human encounter lies potential humiliation.
Even his boss, who looks about 13, treats Greg with utter contempt.
But then Greg is recognised by a customer and asked for his autograph. It's the beginning of a journey that will pass through a police station and end with Greg in court, facing a year-long prison sentence.
Hell is other people...