TV drama lifts lid on world of audit
01 Apr 2009, Accountancy Age, AccountancyAge
http://www.accountancyage.com/aa/news/1762686/tv-drama-lifts-lid-world-audit
The life of auditors is to be dramatised in a TV drama set to lift the lid on the drug and drink fuelled world of public company audit.
A spokesman for the production company said the series would be 'uncompromising' in its efforts to reveal just how seedy and sordid the life of an auditor can be. It is understood the working title for the epic will be ‘Going Concern.’
He added that it would be a cross between the Sopranos and Working Lunch.
‘There is a really challenging scene where one auditor sharpens a pencil for almost eight minutes. It’s electric. Almost as good as Omar Sharif’s entry on a camel in Lawrence of Arabia.
‘In another an audit partner gets himself through the day by popping a couple of Ibubrofen and washes it down with a whole bottle of Ty Nant. That’s the most expensive spring water in the world. It’s absolutely squalid.’
The series is expected to be shown on BBC 17 at 2.30am every Friday to catch late night revellers as they come in from the office.
The lead role is expected to be taken by Jason Statham, of big screen Transporter fame, after Vin Diesel turned down the part. Statham is thought to be the only actor capable of bringing the right combinantion of charisma and studied tedium to the role. Love interest is set to be maintained by Kerry Katona who plays an unstoppable insolvency practitioner.
The series is expected to hit the small screen at the end of the financial year and will be repeated on a loop on BBC4 for all eternity.
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Visitor comments
Got to be a fool
Must be April fool this one.
Posted by: malcolm horner , 01 Apr 2009 | 00:00
April Fools
Aparently accountants do have a sense of humour, but not a very good one. What an obvious April fools article. Haha.
Posted by: CMcK , 01 Apr 2009 | 00:00
Something fishy
I'm worried from what you say that this series is going to go for raw sensationalism at the expense of gritty realism.
Posted by: S Cosgrove , 01 Apr 2009 | 00:00
"Seady"
I seed through your April Fool....
Posted by: John Howard , 01 Apr 2009 | 00:00
April Fool
Nice try guys, but I've been there. even the write up sounds boring
Posted by: Lesley Morris , 01 Apr 2009 | 00:00
Reality
I am concerned that some auditors I know will accept this posting at face value.
It's a bit like letting the kids play with matches
Posted by: Nuocca4 , 02 Apr 2009 | 00:00
" TV drama lifts lid on world of audit "
Ha ha ha very funny.
Is this the best you can do for April bloody fools day ???
BBC17 ? my foot !!!
2.30am my arse !!!
Better luck next time you cowboys.
Posted by: Nasim Ahmad , 01 Apr 2009 | 00:00