Further to the article regarding the shortage of sit-coms, perhaps the world has changed a bit over the past 30 years.

It would be quite difficult to set a sit-com in a call centre where the inmates are in battery-hen cubicles with no colleague interaction, trying to meet hourly targets and having to raise their hand to go to the loo.

It would be even more difficult to replace On The Buses with a single-handed driver operation.

I suppose one could try a programme based on rail travel but would a theme of jam-packed trains taking three hours to do a 50-mile trip be too repetitive?

So what are we left with? A scenario of a group of not-yet washed-up script-writers hawking their material round the agents and studios and acting out their imagined characters to whoever will listen.

It could work. If it does, please remember I thought of it first.

-Basil Hallwood, The Drive, Hove