Digging to Ireland (situation comedy)

Two scenes...

POV…pan around newsroom, everyone working, some typing, others speaking on the phone; quick cut to the wire desk.

Wire desk: There’s a crisis in London’s Underground, most of the trains have stopped running…have we got a London bureau?

O’Sullivan: Right; call David Vega.

Wire desk: Great someone on-the-scene!

Assistant Editor: When did we open a London bureau?

O’Sullivan: We didn’t, David was my golf instructor, he retired to Orlando.

Assistant Editor: Orlando?

O’Sullivan: Yeah, Epcot has an England façade…wah la, man on-the-scene!

Assistant Editor: But that’s ridiculous.

O’Sullivan: How? It looks like England, plus everyone that
works there speaks real English!

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O’Sullivan: Alright, it’s getting close to the holidays; we need to do some pieces on retail sales for the holiday.

Copy editor: [Copy editor opens his file cabinet, thumbs through the files and waves a sheet of paper] Got you covered…quotes and stats to-boot.

O’Sullivan: [Reading from paper] Experts forecast dismal retail holiday sales [Voice trails-off to a mumble while continuing to read] Good piece, but who is predicting bad holiday sales?

Copy editor: The experts.

O’Sullivan: I see that. [Shakes paper] But who are they?

Copy editor: The ones making the predictions! Didn’t you read the article?

O’Sullivan: [Shaking his head to accept the answer] Oh yeah, the experts.

[Reporter enters]

Reporter: Hey, copy editor, have you got that story on the latest hurricane forecast?

[Copy editor turns back to file cabinet and again thumbs through, producing a sheet of paper and hands it to reporter.]

Reporter: [Reading from paper] Experts say grim forecast for the rest of hurricane season. [Looks up] Great! Thanks!