Change of Ideas + Beginnings of the Package

Since the last blog, the general idea for a theme has changed completely. We had a discussion and thought that the last idea, was way too focussed; there wasn't much room for making the packages different from each other, and we'd be struggling to find 3 different people to interview per package.

The idea that we've now settled on is Scottish Exports. Things that have originated in Scotland, and have then made an impact elsewhere. Liam is planning to do his on comic book writers, Allan on a band/artist from Scotland that has 'made it' elsewhere, and the others are, as yet, undecided. I'm going to focus on Scottish TV Comedy as it's something I'm very interested in, and would like to learn more about it. Last year, Gary: Tank Commander and Burnistoun, comedies originally on BBC 2 Scotland, were both shown across the U.K (on BBC3 and BBC2, respectively.) I already have a vague idea for the 3 people I could interview.

1. Someone who has created a scottish comedy that has been shown elsewhere.
2. A commissioner who decided that a scottish comedy should be shown elsewhere.
3. And a viewer from elsewhere.

Asking 1 something along the lines of 'do you think about who's going to be watching your programme when you're making it?' etc.
Asking 2 something along the lines of 'what made you think that people down in england would respond to this as well as those in scotland did?'
and Asking 3 something along the lines of 'what is it that you like about scottish comedy? does it give you anything that your comedies from England can't?'

These are just vague ideas at this stage, but I have a pretty good idea of people I could interview for 1 and 2, if I do decide to go down this road. I think this idea will work on radio, because the people listening will be proud about the comedy they've produced. I can imagine people thinking 'we did that. i'm so proud of our scottish boys out there in the big bad, tv world'. As I said, they'll be proud and interested to learn more about why these shows weren't shown all over the UK.