/**<js>*//**<js>*/{"id":262,"date":"2009-03-12T09:36:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T13:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimmythomson.com\/?page_id=262"},"modified":"2009-03-12T09:36:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T13:36:55","slug":"its-an-honour-to-be-nominated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dev.hux9.org\/jimmythomson\/its-an-honour-to-be-nominated\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s an honour just to be nominated &#8230; not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The funny thing about awards is that when you tell people that you&#8217;ve been nominated what you&#8217;re really saying is you&#8217;ve lost &#8211; you don&#8217;t talk about nominations when you&#8217;ve got a trophy sitting on top of your telly.<br \/>\nWith that in mind, I&#8217;ve been nominated three times for sitcom writing Awgies (the Australian Writers Guild awards) and have yet to require space on my shelves for one (just as well as I need all the space I can get for my rejected scripts).<br \/>\nThe first time I was nominated twice in one year &#8211; once with my very good friend and long-time collaborator Steve Myhill for a pilot episode of a show called &#8220;Ally and Doc&#8221;, which starred Ernie Dingo and Penny Cook. I might relate the story of how the series came to never be made once all the participants (including myself) are dead.<br \/>\nMy other (solo) nomination was for a sitcom set in a Woman&#8217;s Day type magazine.<br \/>\nThe third nominee was Garry Reilly for an episode of Bullpit (the Kingswood Country sequel) which had the slight advantage of having actually made it on to air. Garry is a genuinely funny man, a good operator and a totally decent bloke and he thoroughly deserved to win. Bastard!<br \/>\nA couple of years later I was nominated for the pilot of Dags, Murray Fahey&#8217;s TV adaptation of his almost successful comedy movie (available on video and, no doubt, DVD). I lost that one too.<br \/>\nSince then there hasn&#8217;t been a lot of sitcom on TV and what there has been, hasn&#8217;t been written by me. But I guess that even if I got all three nominations I still wouldn&#8217;t get a gong.<br \/>\nBy the way, anyone who tells you that it&#8217;s enough of an honour merely to be nominated is either a liar or they&#8217;ve just won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The funny thing about awards is that when you tell people that you&#8217;ve been nominated what you&#8217;re really saying is you&#8217;ve lost &#8211; you don&#8217;t talk about nominations when you&#8217;ve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.hux9.org\/jimmythomson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.hux9.org\/jimmythomson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.hux9.org\/jimmythomson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.hux9.org\/jimmythomson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.hux9.org\/jimmythomson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dev.hux9.org\/jimmythomson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.hux9.org\/jimmythomson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.hux9.org\/jimmythomson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.hux9.org\/jimmythomson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}