I actually wrote Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown but then I found out someone called Quentin Tarantino got there earlier.
OH FUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!! Page 2
I wrote them again after you did it.
I've written something called Death Proof, I have high hopes for it...
Quote: catskillz @ August 27, 2007, 2:13 AMWell, I knew it was gonna happen one day, but I didn't think it would happen right before I was due to send my treatment and sample script to Production Companies. What am I talking about? Well, one of the main storylines from my sitcom was recently used in a sitcom on T.V. I'm really angry about it. Has this ever happened to anyone else?
If you're literally about to send it, then I think they'd know you haven't written the whole thing in the week (?) since the show aired. And in any case, if your writing is good enough they're not going to tell you to piss off just because the sample you sent is similar to something that's been on TV, surely? Think of all the re-writing and editing that goes on. It'd most likely be completely different by the time it got to our screens anyway! 
Quote: Pilot @ August 28, 2007, 12:08 AMI've written something called Death Proof, I have high hopes for it...
Happened to me too. The pessimist in me fears that any good idea has already been done.
I don't think it matters, providing the writing is good enough. For example, on the surface Peep Show is an incredibly hackneyed idea about two mismatched friends sharing a flat, yet the way it's written makes it breathtakingly original. And I assume all those involved in writing The Devils Blurb sitcom on this site are aware that the premise is identical to the American show Dead Like Me.
Well, I'm in a terrible mood today, as I've just found out that ANOTHER sitcom, which will be hitting our screens in the coming months, will also be using the idea that I referred to in my first post. Even worse, is the fact that, unlike the last show that used it, this new show will be using the idea to get laughs every week, and not just one episode. I won't say what the idea was just yet, but I might do, when I've calmed down a bit.
That's terrible. You must feel sick to the stomach. 
**Group hug**
Graham Linehan used a gag I had also written, so I can't use that now!
But worst of all is I was planning a sketch show called the Peter Serafinowicz Show - I just can't believe my bad luck...
I've got this great idea for a little box, with a piece of glass on the front through which images and sound are projected.
Quote: Cinnamon @ October 2, 2007, 5:13 PMI've got this great idea for a little box, with a piece of glass on the front through which images and sound are projected.
You mean some sort of telecommunication system for broadcasting vision? Wow, what are you going to call it? How about the 'iTelecommunicationSystemForBroadcastingVision'?
Or the ITSFORBV for easy speech and hipness.
Quote: Cinnamon @ October 2, 2007, 5:27 PMOr the ITSFORBV for easy speech and hipness.
Genius. Where do you get all these ideas? No really, give me the f**king address.
I had written a fresh take on a cringy boss of a paper merchants in Staines......
and the best thing since sliced bread I called it the large malted grain wholemeal uncut loaf.