The public see Daniel Campbell
as a writer who, like Orson Wells, is living his career in reverse.
Daniel Campbell sees the
public as flea bitten monkey pigs with crud for brains.
Unfortunately for Daniel,
the public have a point. Keith, his PA, is quick to point out that, although they do not sell well, his later works are all
critically acclaimed. Rachel, his agent, is equally quick to point out that, acclaim as they will, critics are notoriously
tight bastards who don’t cough up the cash.
It is a constant source
of irritation for Daniel that he is best known to the public as the author of a successful yet short lived science fiction
television show – a show he only wrote for a bet to see who could get the stupidest idea for a TV series commissioned.
However, income from this does pay the rent. Just. Rachel is always trying to get Daniel to write for more lucrative markets
and raise his profile but his incomprehension of popular culture always gets in the way. That and his inherent laziness.
At odds with his PA, his agent, and the zeitgeist in general, Daniel’s life is a constant round
of confusion-fuelled vexation.
Produced by Stuart
Robinson and Will Wright and starring Jon Campling, Andrew Fitch, Caroline Boulton and Victoria Taylor Roberts, this pilot is currently under consideration by several broadcasters.
