The Golden Guys

[McBain]

Ok, the divorce that leads our hero to join up with his two partners in stupidity - 'Game of two halfs'
Sets the scene, bloke on his own, cast adrift, lacking cash, former model former wife doesn't want to know anymore, last bit of support, pig ignorant son.

Development.

One of the other ones coughs up about his gambling - 'Odds on'
Was pretending to move his pals into his gaffe but its been repossessed because hes lost the lot, his gold fillings, his signed Bosco Balabans shirt, the lot. Back to ep 1, the tithead son and his spare flat/shag pad.

2/3 covered, its the final part of the trio we get to know. Had a few quid, didn't squander it, pundit role, caught on tape saying some rather bad stuff. 'Caught offside'
First two try and distance themself from their good mucker, but he reels them in in front of the media and they end up trapped under the spotlight with him, can't fight Murdoch so eventually relent and the scene is set. It's these three and their wacky world of being former pro's (Not to be misunderstood with 'Band of Gold')

Scene is set, we need some 'self conscious theatricality' and some 'light relief'.

Running on empty here, passing the baton....

A good sleep and you'll be back at this!

I reckon the media doesn't want to know them. Dicky feels like a guy who would court the Media only for it to backfire - maybe he's always putting Cat Videos online and making terrible memes in the hope of making cash.

 

[McBain]

An hour is too long, I'm not saying 'short and sweet' although that could be another ep title, but it's dragging trying to be funny for 5 minutes, let alone 60.

'Game of two halves' write your own pun here. Theres loads.
'Jumpers for goals posts' - a day at the park involving a grandson.
'Penalty' could be anything, late rent, car parking, getting busted for swearing at the retired ref upstairs or where ever he is. (Leading to community service hysterics)
'mark your man'
'in the wall'
'corners'

I'm slowly but surely progressing it along the lines of a 'curb your enthusiasm' type mockery. I wonder can a fusion be found, modern pish take and old school one liners.
Theres a Bafta in there for trying because..."its a juxtaposition of old and new, nothing explains the disenfranchised like the working mans passtime stripped away from him maaaan"

Gotta be some media spiv involved, but where is the genus, are we creating a like for like caricature world, or is it more for straight laughs.
Regardless of how the last question goes, a Sol Campbell type is in there, trying for parliament and banging on about aspiration. "Aspiration,I could barely get my breath after all those ciggies" etc...

You have to think outside the straight Genre Box mate. The best stuff all has equal parts in a flowing natural stlye, and an hour episode x 10 will be hard pressed to get everything in.

We'd also need a budget of around 10-20 million Pounds to shoot this thing properly.

 

[Tramps_mate]

Oh, sorry mate no. I've just made it up.

Haha!! It sounded quite interesting!! Maybe you should develope it further!

 

[degsy]

All of the above = worst pilot episode ever.
can't see it giving Game of Thrones anything to worry about

 

[L4Everton]

Well McBain, the people have spoken, and £10-20million to get this thing going sealed the deal. We're dead in the water, asleep at the wheel, out of our depth. And that we couldn't reconcile our creative differences over something as basic as 28 minutes vs 60 minutes gives a cold and damning indictment of what we ought to have known from the off.

Much like the careers of Dicky and his pals, it was great while it lasted.

 

[The Cowboy]

Every now and then, Bepp Slattery, the Housing Association president, drops in on the Golden Guys <cue boos from the studio audience> and tells them about his latest half-baked idea to improve the conditions in the block. Bepp is always at loggerheads with the owners of the adjacent blocks, Michael Platt and Charles Jacket, who keep claiming Bepp is corrupt, but Bepp always has the last word as he's got friends in high places.

 

[mezzrow]

Well McBain, the people have spoken, and £10-20million to get this thing going sealed the deal. We're dead in the water, asleep at the wheel, out of our depth. And that we couldn't reconcile our creative differences over something as basic as 28 minutes vs 60 minutes gives a cold and damning indictment of what we ought to have known from the off.

Much like the careers of Dicky and his pals, it was great while it lasted.

I have two words to save this project.

Tawny. Kitaen. She's the Alpha WAG, she's back and she's bad.

 

[L4Everton]

Is that David Coverdale looking up her dress?

 

[mezzrow]

Is that David Coverdale looking up her dress?

Oooh. Good question... Guess so.

We all had so much hair then, didn't we?

 

[L4Everton]

I honestly thought it was a lass at the wheel as well. I've convinced myself now.

Edit: And no, that much hair is greed personified, on top of which, having it so badly styled is beyond a crime against fashion - its a crime to eyes everywhere.