Who's Looking Over My Shoulder?

Upon reading an article on BBC Entertainment News I felt as sick as a dog...

It appears that a 30 minute sitcom surrounding Freshers has been commissioned for BBC2. Sound familiar? Well, it did to me seeing as it's almost a carbon copy of an idea i've been working on for donkey's years. This isn't the first time this has happened either. There have been several films in the past 2 years which have strikingly similar premises and plots to ideas that have been scribbled on pieces of paper by myself.

Yes, I know that I haven't been copied, but I feel as though this has thrown down the gauntlet to me to get my skates on and write something substantial before it pops up under a different guise on mainstream television. I'm going to carry on with this idea, knowing that the premise is similar to that of 'Fresh' - the imaginatively titled behemoth of plagiarism - but that mine will be better and unique. A further positive point is that 'Fresh' has been put in a pre-watershed slot on BBC2, so I will still have the freedom to make it closer to real student life and real student banter than any pre-swearing time slot sitcom could ever be or devise.

It really is about time I got my skates on and used that 200 mph brain in my skull. It's high time all those ideas which are in the countless notebooks and pieces of paper in my shoeboxes burst out of their cardboard prisons and away from that useless gel sachet they have to keep company with. Plays, sketches, scripts, screeplays, all of them waiting to be freed from the confines that my lack of motivation provides and turned into butterflies from the cocoons of laziness, free to roam the world and to reach people.

I promise all of that will happen after Eastenders.

Regards

JPH

P.S. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8153351.stm (it looks shit from the one picture)