Quote: David Chapman @ July 6 2008, 7:52 PM BSTSo where would the producers and directors be without a writer? Up each others arses?
Indeed, and whose name do we remember best: W. Shakespeare esq. or the guy who commissioned his stuff for The Globe..?
Francis Bacon?
Quote: Badge @ July 3 2008, 1:03 AM BSTwrite it well and sell it cleverly and it doesn't matter what the damn setting is
Sorry to self-quote, but what I was trying to get at was: what writer, in the knowledge that The Office has cast a huge shadow over office-based sitcoms, is going to sell their sitcom as an office-based sitcom? It might have a lot of office scenes in it, but surely you should accentuate something else.
Men Behaving Badly, for example, could be sold as an office-based sitcom, a pub-based sitcom, or a flatshare sitcom. Or a sitcom about men who won't grow up. Write something good and it will sell if it's given the chance.
Quote: Griff @ July 6 2008, 8:11 PM BSTWas going to attempt a joke about Hamlet and Macbeth having been ghost written but realised just in time it was never going to work.
And yet you made it anyway... and made me chuckle.