TV Sitcom - Help Needed

[meercat]

90% of sitcoms are trash. This one will be no different especially if you think the writer hasn't the imagination to think up his/her own stories or incidents so comes on here under a pseudonym.

The problem with the portrayal of postal workers on TV is that it informs the public's opinion of us - or mis-informs them. People really do believe what they see on TV:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueri ... 13,00.html

[krussel]

Make sure the site gets a mention!!
Also see the link for some links...
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Thanks for that, will defo make sure this site is credited.

Ok you can also use my joke for free as well...
"We're supposed to be the new milkmen,but no one's ever had my cream"

... or emptied your sack.

Naughty room Lizard

Just follow the sounds of the screaming and moaning. I recon 24hrs should do you for that comment

[MisterSitter]

90% of sitcoms are trash. This one will be no different especially if you think the writer hasn't the imagination to think up his/her own stories or incidents so comes on here under a pseudonym.

The problem with the portrayal of postal workers on TV is that it informs the public's opinion of us - or mis-informs them. People really do believe what they see on TV:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueri ... 13,00.html

It's not like that and I'm not him under a pseudonym. I am a postie and he is a writer. He's not lacking imagination he's looking for some realism. The story is gonna be told from the postie's point of view and be sympathetic to him.

[old-postie]

if it's realism then it should be a tragedy and not a comedy.

unless he's planning to go ashes to ashes/life on mars the days of being abe to have a laugh with workmates, customers or even gaffers is loooooong gone

[MisterSitter]

if it's realism then it should be a tragedy and not a comedy.

unless he's planning to go ashes to ashes/life on mars the days of being abe to have a laugh with workmates, customers or even gaffers is loooooong gone

I agree. I'm there on a day to day basis and have plenty to get off my chest. I think the term 'sitcom' can be misleading. I truly believe it wont be My Family or Dinnerladies, I'm hoping for something a bit more 'Extras' or 'The Thick of It'.

[krussel]

if it's realism then it should be a tragedy and not a comedy.

unless he's planning to go ashes to ashes/life on mars the days of being abe to have a laugh with workmates, customers or even gaffers is loooooong gone

Trouble is when you take the job at face value and place it on the screen its simply not that interesting. Same streets, same letters, same moans etc.
If you think about it at best it would be a black comedy and most likely turn out quite depressing.

It would take the talent of say Alan Bleasdale who was always very good at getting a more socialist view across (without offending people) to pull it off and I just don’t see that sort of genius around anymore.

[meercat]

It's not like that and I'm not him under a pseudonym. I am a postie and he is a writer. He's not lacking imagination he's looking for some realism. The story is gonna be told from the postie's point of view and be sympathetic to him.

Fair enough, but I guarantee the actor on the screen will NOT be seen walking out the door everyday with an overloaded pouch and the reality of how much mail we carry WILL NOT come across to the viewer. And you won't see a bullying manager in this show or see someone sacked for not wearing a cycle helmet.

The job has never been shown accurately before so why now? You'll see a guy jumping out of a van with a smile on his face carrying two letters for Mrs Jones and he'll take 2mins to deliver them stopping for a chat at the gate. And he'll be smoking in the pub by 3pm. Oh what a cliche.

[smokerjim]

It's not like that and I'm not him under a pseudonym. I am a postie and he is a writer. He's not lacking imagination he's looking for some realism. The story is gonna be told from the postie's point of view and be sympathetic to him.

Fair enough, but I guarantee the actor on the screen will NOT be seen walking out the door everyday with an overloaded pouch and the reality of how much mail we carry WILL NOT come across to the viewer. And you won't see a bullying manager in this show or see someone sacked for not wearing a cycle helmet.

The job has never been shown accurately before so why now? You'll see a guy jumping out of a van with a smile on his face carrying two letters for Mrs Jones and he'll take 2mins to deliver them stopping for a chat at the gate. And he'll be smoking in the pub by 3pm. Oh what a cliche.

TBF meercat, even now, I can be in the pub by 3pm, do you mean he'll be job done & in the pub an hour after he starts & ghosting more than Derek Acora? Loved and respected by his customers, treated with dignity by his lineos, and given the best walk in office in a repick, despite being so low on seniority he's not old enough to shave?

Mister Sitter, if your china wants to do a realistic sit-com based on the post office, he'd best have the bitter, twisted and cynical black humour of someone like Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Dylan Moran, Jack Dee ( before he sold out to John Smiths ), Frankie Boyle, etc, etc,.....otherwise he'll find himself flamed by us here & we'll find customers re-raising impossible expectations of our job AND thinking they know what goes on "Cos I seen it on the telly" in the same way that Fawlty Towers, Psycho and Hotel Paradiso is an accurate depiction of the hotel trade

[BELIAL]

Laugh a minute ain't it when you are dragging yourself around a 4hr walk with RSI and busted tendons with some STASI reject saying you are not performing up to the standard required by a computer generated performance target predictor .Be funny if it weren't true