Project Two?

Shortly after Episode 2 was screened, the commissioning editor of the BBC, Jane Pearce, came to see me. “I’m delighted with the quality of the serial so far and we’re especially pleased with the ratings. Not only are you within budget, but it looks good as well” she encouraged.
“Well thank you very much, but there’s a whole team involved so I’m not going to take the credit for myself.”

“That’s as maybe” Jane replied “but I would like to discuss your next project. The final decision is mine but if you put some enough options on the table there is a fair chance I shall choose one of them. We are also launching a late night drama series ‘Doctors and Nurses’ which will have some sharp writing but will have less high aims and a high lewdity factor. Maybe you would be interested in sitting in on a production meeting and even get to direct the odd episode.”
“Thanks for that offer. I’ll consider it, but I doubt I’ll find time to direct. Do you mind if I go and find Jacqui? I am sure she can chip in on this.”

Jacqueline Prévert, my director, my sort of partner, I met as a young actress with a big reputation during my first job in Europorn. I was playing an American executive over to clinch a big financial deal and Jackie was playing a secretary trying to wheedle information out of me. Needless to say the wheedling involved her sitting on my pole and I was impressed that someone who exuded an air of sophistication, despite her job, managed my full length with such ease. It took a while to show her there was a brain hiding behind the big dick and eventually we had dinner where we really hit it off. When I founded my own production company I hired her in various capacities and sponsored her through film school. The British press had already christened her Jackie Pervert!

I took her off the set and we returned to Jane, who was looking through my drawers. “I’m just a bit nosy, making sure you’re not looking to abandon ship” she explained, holding a picture of me and Jacqui at what looked like an orgy “Do you swing? I’m so sorry, I’m terribly rude. I’m Jane Pearce and you are obviously” holding the photo at a different angle “Jacqui Prevert. How do you do and indeed how did you get in that position?”
“It’s a talent. One never forgets one’s early training.”
“Down to business, then. I am looking for something for both men and women: hot actresses, strong female parts, pants wetting hunks - possibly with better acting credentials than in P and P” she waved her hand as Jacqui was about to defend her casting “- and the same high brow content.”

After an entertaining discussion Jacqui and I offered the following options:
William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”;
Sigrid Undset’s “Kristin Lavransdatter”;
Boccaccio’s “Decameron”;
George Eliot’s “Middlemarch”;
William Thackery’s “Vanity Fair”.