I've long held that a reality TV production company would make a perfect location for an workplace sit-com. It has everything you need: crazy characters, weird situations, inter-office romance, and a surprising amount of free time spent shooting the shit. I tried to write one of my own last year and, like most of my scripts, just let it sit around collecting dust.

I think the script is solid but I didn't hit it out of the park. One of the problems is that it's a little too insidery. And now that I've let it sit around for a year, some of the jokes are now dated (most notably, the Dark Knight references). I haven't gotten back to doing anything with it so I thought I'd just throw it on the ol' blog for people to see, critique, or just ignore.

For people in the industry, the script is a little tough on editors (after all, reality TV is an editor's medium; they make most of the shows what they are.) But for people outside of the reality world, it's an over-the-top but I think legitimate look into how the shows that make America dumber are actually made.

Anyway, I think it's a good start and I've been thinking of maybe shooting the opening of the show (the three pages posted below) on my own but right now I'm not doing anything with it. If you want to check it out, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE PDF OF THE PILOT SCRIPT HERE. Below are the three first pages. The opening isn't really sit-com style, three jokes a page writing. It's more of a dramedy short but the rest of the episode fits more into sit-com writing. But then, that was another problem with the series; I could never figure out if it was a News Radio type comedy or a completely over the top 30 Rock kinda show.