Quoted from Desmond Wrong Left in charge of her family’s home, a teenage lesbian with a newly arrived live-in lover partners with her clever, prank-loving down-syndrome brother to convince their ultra-religious, nosy neighbour that they are a traditional conservative family. It is Rosie’s house. She is buying it at a knocked down price from her parents. She was in a relationship before she moved in. The next door neighbours are not ultra-religious and they are not conservative.

“Thanks, Dave for the continued advice even though I clearly don’t deserve it.

That’s a great starting point for me but I’ll tweak it a bit to fit the script (since you haven’t read it so how could you possibly know the intricacies of the characters)

Much appreciated”

- that would have been the non-asshole way to reply, in case you were wondering.

Quoted from Desmond I am writing to hi-light the  prejudices and to expose them for what they are in a commercial way. Much the same way as Farther ted and back in the 60s a famous stand up comedian Dave Allen did. It is done as Kenny Everette would say “In the best possible taste.”

Regardless of the log line, genuinely flawed characters who change from within, is the foundation of good story. I like your passion, Desmond, and wish you luck.

Thanks Robert. As I said before all scripts (1,000 or more) will be read to at least the first 10 pages. I have tried to cram as much as I can into these 10. It starts with the disillusionment  of the new family thinking next door are perfect, nice happy, well organised and well educated professional family only for the other side of the coin a precarious and some what stupid difunctional family to be seen. What else is comedy about?  I think this will FLY.

Thanks again.

I presume this is all for the BBC's writer's room open call scripts?

Correct. I have been working on this for months and have 6 good episodes. I got carried away. I enjoyed writing them and with the support I got here, corrected the layout of the script. It was the layout that has let me down in the past. I have still done it in MS Word with carefully constructed style sheets. I believe all my other submissions were good but got rejected because of the badly formatted layout.

Not sure which to use though

INT. KELLY’S HOUSE – KELLY’S LIVING ROOM – MORNING

INT. KELLY’S HOUSE – LIVING ROOM – MORNING

And I wouldent mind looking at a step outline or as the americans call it a beet sheet.

Well, good luck with your submission - It's a tough gig, I tried a few years back and was, of course, rejected, to be fair I was nowhere near ready. They seem to want the finished article, which I don't think is right given that you go into a development group.

Also, many of the writers they select seem to have a lot of credits to their names already.

Anyway, sheer determination will put you in good stead and certainly looks like you got that, I'm thinking of giving it another go, persistence might be what they're after.

Also - reading this thread, as entertaining as it is, I think we need to bite our lip in this game, as painful as it can be at times.

Good luck, you never know...