This sit-com idea has been with me for ages. Since UK's Channel 4 has been scraping the barrell for years, and it's clear, due to the endless imports, the unfunny Leigh Francis and Peter Kay vehicles, 'reality' programmes and constant cheapo best of compilations, that the Canary Wharf building need my help.
With this partly in mind I've proposed a treatment for a new sit-com, a dynamic sit-com, which would actually feature actors and TV celebrities whose work WE ACTUALLY ENJOY, two characters who are remembered with warm affection and nostalgia, and actually possess at least one talent. Yes, Tony Hart and David Soul. Hence the title of the sit-com, Hart and Soul.
The pitch? Oh, I don't know, they play themselves. Tony Hart has a lovely modern studio flat, but is disturbed by his loud, heavy drinking, partying, pizza eating new neighbour above, the incorrigible, Soul, who is in the UK to land the BIG acting job, following Springer (which he talks about all the time) but has to make do with little jobs advertising E4 and all that. Meanwhile, Tony Hart, wants to sell his serious art works to galleries and things but alone at night, alone, he talks to Morph. The duo clash, argue, fight, smash things, but always have a begrudging respect for each other. I was going to up the ante a bit, and suggest that this version of Tony Hart had no heart and David Soul had no soul but I felt that this was just taking liberties. Oh yeah, and the theme tune would be the predictable T'pau's 'Heart and Soul' only mashed up with the theme to 'Hartbeat'.
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