Quote: Matthew Stott @ February 21 2013, 5:00 PM GMTMe too. If you keep doing good work and it keeps being taken along the process, hopefully eventually the stars will align and you'll get something on TV. Then it will be slated, no one will watch and it'll be pulled off the air after one lousy series.
There's always that too 
Quote: PurpleRonnie @ February 21 2013, 2:52 PM GMTDo you need a plumber?
No. Neither do I know anything about it.
But if you send me some picture of your plumbing work, I'll happily give you some notes 
"I liked that the pipes were shiny... Not so keen on the water dripping on my head..."
The infamous rejection of fawlty towers.
Nobody knows anything - William Goldman.
But some wise and positive words spoken in the last few posts of this thread.
Quote: Funny Johnny @ February 23 2013, 6:37 PM GMTThe infamous rejection of fawlty towers.
I feel a bit sorry for Ian Main. I mean the guy was obviously an idiot but most idiots in positions of power somehow manage to hide it. This idiot will be forever remembered as the idiot who made the idiotic Fawlty Towers decision.
Yeah allways easy to point fingers afterwards :-)
But then again it takes a speciel kind of guy to write such a rejection to an ex-python who just made a worldwide succes.
Do we have the actual script that Ian Main read? Perhaps his notes proved crucial.
It was only after we heard The Beatles' Decca Audition tape - hungover, borrowed equipment, Epstein convincing them to do a 'Showbiz' set, nothing like a Cavern performance - that we had sympathy with 'The Man Who Turned Down The Beatles'.
Quote: Funny Johnny @ February 23 2013, 6:37 PM GMT
How is a comparison to the Prince of Denmark a bad thing?
I would imagine, and I haven't bothered to Google, that it was a poorly received sitcom at the time or thereabouts.
I've heard a similar story on here before from Bushbaby. Just sounds like bitterness. Anyone pulling this stunt - if it did actually happen - is probably not a good enough writer to get commissioned.
Quote: Ben @ February 24 2013, 12:08 PM GMTI've heard a similar story on here before from Bushbaby. Just sounds like bitterness. Anyone pulling this stunt - if it did actually happen - is probably not a good enough writer to get commissioned.
But Fawlty Towers was commissioned, so it makes little sense. As much sense as bad artists going on the Beatles being rejected.
I did hear about a number of publishers not recognising the plot of Pride and Prejudice, but that doesn't reassure me as an unpublished writer. That's just depressing. 