If you write for television for any length of time, there will come a moment when you’ll eat the shit sandwich that comes in the form of seeing your idea on TV – created by someone else. It’ll be beat-for-beat just like you had it. But, in your opinion, it’ll be worse. At this point it’s important to say that this isn’t a post about plagiarism. The cruel truth is there are a limited amount of ideas in the zeitgeist. So why didn’t yours get made?
Know the feeling all too well ...