I had a random fic idea today. I was watching Countdown. Now I know that they film several episodes in a day and are just pretending that it’s “see you tomorrow” but they do have the same presenters. I wondered to myself what happened if they were ill. I figured if at all possible they would suspend filming until they were better rather than find a substitute.

THEN I wondered what happened if news presenters were ill because that was live, so they would have to find someone else. Then I went a step further (hence fic idea).

The newsroom canteen accidentally served some bad food, knocking out all the regular presenters with food poisoning, which takes at least a few days to recover from. The only people left with any training to present the news are Belle, who is paying her dues and hoping for a job as a correspondent overseas as she always wanted to travel, and Gold a former presenter who lost his nerve and has stayed in the editing room ever since.

Can they make it through the week without disaster? Will Belle be able to help Gold find his courage? Will Gold be able to help Belle find what she has always been searching for? I don’t know, that kind of thing 🙂

I also had an idea for another drawing. As if my hand doesn’t already hurt enough heh. There has to be a better way of doing the block coloring. I will have to look into that! I want to improve as much as possible after all.