Phone Tap: Crimanimals BBC Show

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Oh, yeah. Easily, Brooke was the best one in the room by far. Brooke, show us your accent. Why, thank you, Jeffrey. Oh, Jeffrey Chap. Wow. I don't know. I didn't warm up. Hard to beat that. I feel like I'm in London. I mean, I think if I go watch Bridgerton first, it would have been better.

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Well, today I'm going to try to match Brooke's blokeyism and say that I'm from the BBC calling a woman about a show idea that she pitched to the network. And somehow it ended up on my desk. Well, that sounds delightful, Jeffrey. It's all because of her friend who set her up. But you'll hear it in your phone tap right now. Brooke and Jeffrey's phone taps on the 20s. Hello? Hello, is this Alana?

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Yes, this is she.

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Hi, my name is Crispin Featherwick. I'm a network executive from the BBC. Hello, how are you, Crispin? I'm quite well, thanks for asking. And you? I'm doing great. What can I do for you? Well, the reason for my call, I saw a pitch for a brilliant show come across my desk today and I was like, whoa, wait a tick. This is new. This is innovative.

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And word got around you were the creative genius who hatched this idea. Wow. Are you talking about sometimes? Yeah, it's a crime drama. Yes. Oh, my gosh. Wow. Thank you. Thank you so much. Of course.

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Now, that being said, if we were to move forward, we would like to make just a few changes. Make it a tad bit edgier. OK. I mean, you like you like gritty, some gritty shows. Yeah, yeah, I like gritty. I was kind of hoping for this to be a little bit more wholesome than gritty. Listen, love, Alana, sweetheart, I'm a network executive. I work with a lot of projects, so I think I know what's best.

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And personally, I would like to make a change and think it's better suited as a musical crime sitcom.

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Well, that may be entertaining, but it's not quite really even in the ballpark of what I've created. Right. It's an improvement. And here's the kicker. I want all the suspects to be talking animals. Okay. Riveting, isn't it? How would that even work? Well, just picture in your mind a llama put into handcuffs. Okay. Put him in the back of a cop car.

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And he's a tall animal, so of course the officers have pushed his head down into the vehicle. Okay. Look, obviously I would really love for this script to be optioned and the opportunity to work with you and the BBC. I just I'm not sure that I am able to make the shift with this story, with this script. What you're saying is you don't want the BBC to purchase this? No, no, no.

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Turn it into a major show?

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It's just that the framework of the story doesn't quite lend itself there yet.

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Well, the framework will work itself out. The concept is what's most important here. Haven't you seen the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? No. Yeah, I've seen the Ninja Turtles. You know, in that show, there's one bad guy. He's a rhino. His name's Bebop. It was quite popular. So now we're trying to make the adult version of that.

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I'm open to ideas and workshopping and making changes, but what you are pitching is... Is your problem because of the title? No. Because I have some other working options that I was considering. What do you think about Broadway in order? A bit of a play on words there. Excuse me? That or Clue Tunes? I'm sorry, I just... Whiskers of Justice? I'm just coming up with these off the top of my head.

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Yeah, I... Spitballing, as you Yankees would say. I don't... So, what do you say? Should we finalize a deal? Okay, look, I'm sorry, I just... Can you... I don't... That's perfect. We'll give it a go and we'll tell your friend Adam that we approve. Um, my friend Adam, like... Adam? He listens to a radio show called Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning and he set you up for a phone tap, love.

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It's all a joke. Oh, my God. Well, um... I mean, thank Christ, because I was trying so hard to be polite, and I honestly thought this whole thing was real. It's very real, with low-life animals being arrested by singing human cops. Oh, that's right. They're human coppers. I forgot about those. Yes, human policemen arresting criminal animals. Criminimals. Oh, my God. Oh, we have it.

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We have the new title, Criminimals. You know what? Good luck with that, y'all. Broken Jeffrey's phone taps on the 20s.