Wednesday 25 July 2007

Bear in London

During lunch (french onion tart / side salad / no dressing) I had a fucking brainwave. Soon as I got back to the office I put a call in to Robert MacIver at Diverse to talk it through:

'Bear Grylls: Urban Adventurer'

Very now.

Very sexy.

Very My Channel.

Bear (known as Edward to his mother) is parachuted into the capital city equipped with nothing but the clothes he is wearing. In 24hours he must use only his own wit, ingenuity and urban survival skills to get the fuck out. It's an epic fight for survival in one of the harshest terrains known to man: Soho on a Friday night.

* He'll have to eat the scraps of leftover kebabs on Frith street...

* Fight for the night bus home against hordes of pissheads on Charing Cross Rd...

* Make temporary shelter (in the arms of someone he's only just met with raven black hair and creepy tattoos)...

* Mix his own cocktails in Gerrys...

* Score hallucinogens from the Big Issue seller lurking outside Soho House...

* And when life becomes too tough, there's always a place to crash nearby.

I've instructed MacIver to get his west-country lackies to work it up into a punchy 2-pager offering genuine tension, genuine jeopardy, and hopefully some genuine eye candy to help skew My Channel more female.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

MacIver won't be interested if it doesn't include a group of plucky cripples trying to navigate the south bank. (mind you, the cunts probably get a lift in a limo)