| Senior managers at BBC Scotland
admitted last night that the organisation was at crisis point after a routine cultural
audit revealed that supply levels of lovable national stereotypes were at an all time low. "We
noticed the problem back in the summer when series two of Monarch of the Glen went into
production" one source explained to the JT. "The producers were worried
that even English audiences would begin to tire of the unbearable niceness of the main
characters."
To add more "realism" to the storyline, Series Two will see the
introduction of Psycho Billy, a hardman character drafted in from the special McIllvanney
/McDougall Scottish Cliché Collection stored at Queen Margaret Drive. The new character,
Pyscho Billy "frae Glesca", causes havoc amongst the little Highland Community
until the Sansu Shirehamp character has him round for a cup of tea and a nice chat. |
Supply problems worsened when
"Brotherly Love" went into production, with demand for barely credible
ethnographic representations at an all time high, producers were forced to wheel out
"Janet" from Doctor Finlay's casebook, give her a new name and stick her back on
a bike. In a related development, BBC Scotland confirmed that due to a
scripting error the first episode of Brotherly Love aired with what might have been
construed as one halfway decent gag. A spokesman apologised and told the JT
"Rest assured the show will be back to normal in the time honoured tradition of home
grown sit-coms: that is, a de facto breach of the Trade Descriptions Act." |
