Jeffrey's name and character has been left as is.
Rain's name has been changed to Alex. I wanted to use a more common but still gender-neutral name for them. I planned them as non-binary as they are an under-represented group in the media, even among LGBTQ+ focused media. It also made sense for audio-based representation as aside from having 'male' and 'female' voices which is a very cisnormative view of representation, pronouns are sensible and elegant identity markers. This allows me to focus on the writing rather than think about ham-fisting a reference to class or ethnicity into the script, and is an issue I am personally passionate about.
They met each other at Board Game Society, not Tabletop now as Monopoly makes for a wider point of comedic reference than Dungeons and Dragons, but I still keep an intertextual reference to a D&D based webshow in the final script.
New Character: CRT. A CRT Television, inspired by a recent American news story I encountered.
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/8/13/20804541/human-wearing-tv-head-leaves-tv-porch-virginia
Adds a menacing touch and a sense of magical realism. While Radio 4 comedies are traditionally grounded in reality, I am tasked with courting a new audience and to do that I have to expand the possibilities of genre and tone of the Radio 4 comedy.
The show is now called 'On Air!'
Episode Conceit: The episode title is now "You've got to have a featured guest!". The opening will focus on the state and continuity of the podcast as of now, what exactly the duo want to do with it and them stumbling upon a featured guest, who is of course, neither featured nor a guest - CRT.
For the original audio content I plan a Q&A segment, which will largely just be more jokes with a plug at the end of asking for questions from the audience. I plan for this to be the point of cross-media convergence as the website will have a form to submit questions as well as links to social media to submit questions as well.
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