No probs. I keep updated the first post with any relevant information, not least so it's easy to copy for the first post of subsequent series!
Dan
Newsjack - Series 8 Page 18
Thought about Pope Idol, binned it for being rubbish, very glad I did! Hope there were no Pistorious submissions from anyone on here...
I tried to do a joke about the Pope allegedly losing his eyesight. I was pretty sure there was a gag in him being asked to read the top line of the eye chart and he replies that it was Jean Paul II real name. But after several rewrites I ended up binning it.
Quote: dtmcc @ February 19 2013, 5:23 PM GMTThought about Pope Idol, binned it for being rubbish, very glad I did! Hope there were no Pistorious submissions from anyone on here...
Great minds Dan. I have one (Pope) penned already which I don't think is too bad but I'm saving it to later in the run when it may be more relevant.
Extraordinary that anyone would think Auntie would even consider broadcasting material based the Pistorious case, but the NJ Twitter feed proves that there's none so odd as folk.
Just because your a national sporting treasure doesn't mean you can kill your wife and expect people to still love you. Imagine if David Beckham had done the same... Ok, bad example.
No, I didn't send it.
I'm quite liking the trend this year of informative videos on how to submit to Newsjack. If you haven't seen them yet you can see them here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kvs8r/clips
Although I don't believe than Tom Neenan ever really gets furious.
Yeah they're great - in the writers meeting video there's a close up of someone's notepad and they're scribbling something next to my Diary of Chris Huhne sketch.
Can't read what's being written - I can only assume it said 'this can not be bettered in any way, do not alter under any circumstances'. Which everyone then ignored...
Quote: Bleurgh @ February 21 2013, 1:10 PM GMTYeah they're great - in the writers meeting video ../
So they're all white, under 40, and apart from one, all male?
Was anyone at the recoding last night? How was it?
Quote: Nogget @ February 21 2013, 1:41 PM GMTSo they're all white, under 40, and apart from one, all male?
Not quite sure which videoing your looking at but the two writers room people they focus on are female, one of the producers is female and half the cast are female!
Also you might want to Google the ages of some of the cast too...
Quote: StephenM @ February 21 2013, 2:18 PM GMTNot quite sure which videoing your looking at .../
Just looking at the writers in this one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p015d6th
But from what you've said, it's unrepresentative, so fair enough.
Just watched the clips - very informative. They pretty much described me when they said people focus on smaller stories thinking they stand more of a chance than if they focus on big stories. Food for thought
No news?
Quote: DeathbyMonkey @ February 21 2013, 5:02 PM GMTNo news?
Not for me, but then I already know I'm a no!
There's nothing new in my inbox.