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to… James Gregory; Katie Philpott

cc…

re… woe is us

I’ve been looking everywhere for you both. As soon as you’re back at your desks, I need you in my office. I’ve just come back from a meeting with David. Things, I’m afraid, are going from worse to abysmal.

Simon has ‘cracked’ Mako. This is his idea: Reeves and Mortimer in bat suits. He believes it to be so brilliant that they’ll have to invent a new category of award to honour it. When I pointed out that he’d simply replaced Britain’s most unfashionable comedians with its most over-exposed, he wouldn’t have any of it.

The final nail in the coffin is that David not only loves it, he wants to build a church in which to worship it.

I don’t have much room to argue. The entire blame for the L&L disaster has been laid at our feet and our credibility is less than zero. To beat this one we must not only come up with a very convincing case against Simon’s new idea, but also a demonstrably better alternative. Let’s see what we can do. We still have three days.