Ice Rich said:
Can you expand on that please, what exactly happened?
I would be intrested to know....
Well, a few years back at college me and two friends used to write comedy sketches (pretty wierd, off the wall stuff) and I was in email contact with Dom Joly and a few people from Tiger Aspect, head of Channel 4 light entertainment etc.
Anyway just trying to get pointers I'd email sketch ideas to Dom for his thoughts and on the most part he was helpful, if completely up his own arse.
I wrote some very basic stuff in the style of THTV so he could see what we could do, including one such sketch which basically involved someone in a huge pigeon outfit attacking some unknowing flying-rat fiddler in trafalgar square.
Now one day, Dom stopped replying, and after a couple of days, I thought hell to it, he's a busy guy, i'll let him get on.
Then i saw the teaser for series two of trigger happy and bugger me if I didn't see my pigeon sketch, not just the idea, but the whole direction of it was identical!
The problem is, I was soft in the head and didn't get copyright or anything on what i'd sent. Mostly because I thought it was worthless.
I didn't want money or anything other than credit that something I wrote was actually broadcast. But nothing.
Like I said. Git.
In fact I believe my sketch is actually found online as an animated GIF!