In my last post I mentioned Project X, an idea I'd submitted to a BBC executive in the hope that she'd commission a script. Well, her verdict is in, and it's...
...wait for it...
...lukewarm. It's a maybe. She's not sure. She needs to be convinced.
So the next stage is for me and the producer I've been working with to go into the exec's office and pitch the show. We need to sell the idea, explain how it'll work and show what a broad appeal it could have.
Problem is, I've tried pitching before and I'm rubbish at it. I get scared. I'm like one of those people on Dragons' Den who get two sentences in, forget their words, stand quietly for a bit and then cry. And that probably won't get us our script commission.
But we'll have a go anyway. I'll try to make Project X sound like a sure-fire winner while being refreshingly different from any show that has gone before. I'll try to make it sound like a mixture of all the best and most successful shows of the last few years â a sort of Shameless meets The IT Crowd crossed with Lazytown with its own slant that makes it completely different to any of them. I'll be dynamic and enthusiastic. And I'll be talking through my hat the entire time. (That is, unless the executive in question is reading this, in which case it really is a guaranteed sure-fire hit, honest).
I'll let you know what happens...
