@Auditchris...congrats on the script, corking idea!
I chortled at your original script, I liked NJ's input but the whole relationship breakdown thing was a wee bit over-indulged in my humble opinion.
As for all the editing stuff, I was a bit naive about the whole process when I first started submitting, but I soon began to realise (thanks to other writers' candidness and a bit of detective work) that it's entirely likely that your original submission will get a complete refurb.....such is the nature of having a room full of burgeoning comedy writers all keen as beans and high on coffee. So I think the key to cracking Newsjack appears to be a. consistency and b. 'killer' ideas...the fluid kind that harbour possibilities.
Peeps on here consistently tick those boxes, and I doff my cap to them. I'm determined to slug this season out but I'm kinda arriving at that point of no return having dined out on my winnie the pooh joke that made the live recording around the time they started knocking down the Berlin Wall...or was it when they started building the Great Wall of China (I can never remember which).