Wednesday, April 14, 2010

I'm too honest for my own good!

...if such a thing is possible.

Just had a call from RTE in relation to a possible writing job on their popular long-running drama. Of course, the first question that I was asked was if I regularly watched the show. Did I just shoot myself in the foot by being 'too honest' and saying that I only watch it occasionally?

Well , something tells me I would have been quickly found out if I had said 'Oh yeah, watch it every night, never miss it, sometimes I watch it twice in case I missed something the first time!'....probably the first time I went to a writers' meeting and called Carrigstown 'Carrot-town' or McCoy's 'McKay's'.

Anyway, my mission, should-I-choose-etc-etc, is to watch it (every night, never miss it, sometimes twice in case I miss something the first time) for the next few months and give them a call in August if I'm still interested.

So no more Simpsons re-runs for me!

2 comments:

  1. Well now - Mr. Fitz, are we talking about an RTE offer for you to start working for them? And you can call them if you are interested? That sounds like some nice bread-and-butter job to me. Then again, I have never seen Fair City (? - what a shame, after 5 years) myself.
    Think you should go for it! It would make such a nice "haha, if I remember my early days" part of your acceptance speech for the best original screenplay Oscar, don't you think?

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  2. You make be on to something there...although, my 'I remember my early days' speech was going be cliched stories of sitting in a darkened room banging out reams of script. Working for a national broadcaster might be a bit too 'sell-out' for my more arty-farty contemporaries...

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