Whom: him, her, them.
Who: he, she, it.
To whom do I have the pleasure? To (him, her, them).
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I haven't got an email as yet.
Does this mean Ive been exiled to a life of listening to RFTP and singing "It should've been me" repeatedly whilst smashing the radio to pieces???
Or does it mean they still haven't gone through all submissions yet?
I suspect Mikey you're in the unhappy ghetto that a few of us are in.
No doubt when BSG restarts we'll be swept aside like Polish Nationalist in post war Communist Poland.
Ouch. I actually thought my submissions were pretty good.
That's delusion for you.
Sootyj, your "AA press1 press 2" sketch was absolute genius.
How could that NOT get it?
No, I'm still living in the hope that they haven't finished sifting yet.
Mind you..... does seem a bit strange that so many people have had this email.
Quote: Mikey J @ December 16 2008, 1:57 PM GMTSootyj, your "AA press1 press 2" sketch was absolute genius.
How could that NOT get it?
I don't know for sure, but it did seem a bit similar to something that got into series one. Not saying Sooty nicked it, just that there were a few of those sort of sketches in before.
Oh right.
Also... when I said "does seem a bit strange that so many people have had this email", I mean, usually, it a competition like this, there would only be a few people that would "get through to next round" so to speak, especially as there were 1500 submissions.
Quote: Mikey J @ December 16 2008, 2:03 PM GMTOh right.
Also... when I said "does seem a bit strange that so many people have had this email", I mean, usually, it a competition like this, there would only be a few people that would "get through to next round" so to speak, especially as there were 1500 submissions.
Well, the 1500 is a bit vague - I'm not quite sure whether it's people or sketches. But the report was that there was (from the first 1200 odd at least) about 300 put in a 'maybe/yes' pile, of which 100 were culled straight off.
That's still an absolute shedload, isn't it? Far more than could be possibly generated by the number of people loitering around here, surely? Just goes to show the huge interest in open door shows such as this, even away from this site (and others).
Quote: Mikey J @ December 16 2008, 2:03 PM GMTOh right.
Also... when I said "does seem a bit strange that so many people have had this email", I mean, usually, it a competition like this, there would only be a few people that would "get through to next round" so to speak, especially as there were 1500 submissions.
It wasn't a competition, but a show taking open submissions.
Quote: sootyj @ December 16 2008, 11:07 AM GMTOh the poems I liked those!
Have a tshirt and cock shaped party hat.
Don't worry look at GWBush, losers can win and make every one suffer.
Thank you 
We seem to make a rather small party. Unless there are loads more that didn't get emails but are hiding a secret shame
I too have received no such email.
Serves me right for submitting one about a satnav and two automated call centre pieces.
I tried for the first series and didn't get anywhere then either. This isn't my only lack of success this year though, I appear to have only managed to sell a single joke to 118 and now I've completely dried up on the joke front. Can't think of a single funny thing.
It's like I've had my sense of humour sucked out of me. And not in a good way. Think I'm finally in the right frame of mind to try a spec script for Clone.
Quote: Griff @ December 16 2008, 2:45 PM GMTDoing some dodgy maths here... if half of each show is written by a mixture of commissioned writers and non-comm writers from the previous series, that leaves 6 x 15 mins of airtime to be filled by "new" writers. If an average sketch is 1.5 mins, that's a maximum of 60 new writers who will get stuff in. If some of them get 2 or more sketches in, that might be 50 writers who get their first RFTP credit.
If the 1500 sketches figure is right (and that ties in with the numbers I've heard for other open submission shows), that's 500 writers sending stuff in, with 50 writers potentially likely to score. Roughly a 10% chance of getting stuff in. Which is about the same as things like Sitcom Trials (over 300 entries, 32 slots available, again a 1 in 10 chance).
Though more stuff will be recorded than broadcast, which is probably enough to get you on some sort of 'future submissions' list, so it's not necessarily all a complete waste 
Dan, unusually uncynical.
Well, I'm continung the optimism (and delusion) that maybe they haven't sorted through them all yet.
Actually, it would be interesting to SEE the sketches by the chosen ones who have received the email. Anyone got any in Critique?
Quote: Griff @ December 16 2008, 2:56 PM GMTAnd I was in no way trying to suggest this was a waste of time, just trying to put some perspective on the numbers.
I kind of like that it's a waste of time. None of these schemes or competitions amount to anything for most people, so it takes any kind of pressure off. It's just a case of hit and hope.
Quote: Griff @ December 16 2008, 2:56 PM GMTAnd I was in no way trying to suggest this was a waste of time, just trying to put some perspective on the numbers.
Yeah, I know. I believe (though don't quote me on it) that after the submissions for the first series of Play & Record there were only something like eleven non-comms who got sketches on. Something like 80% of the series was written by the performers, in that case though, which is not the case here.
Dan