by A. Non

Created on: September 14, 2010

CAST:
Rachel Radlie: News Anchor
Eamon Spencer: Producer
Dave Grizaldo: Cameraman
Sunil “Sunny” Mehta: Sports Anchor

[EAMON sits at his controller desk. RACHEL enters]
Rachel: Ready to go, boss.
Eamon: Right. (not looking up) Did you do hair and makeup?
Rachel: Yes. (beat) Doesn’t it look like it? I mean no one was in there at first but I found the girl eventually in the break room. You may want to speak with her, Mr. Spencer, about timeliness I mean. We are the number three news source for the city and if we want to climb to number one we need everyone pulling together.

Eamon: We are number four. The Arabic language program pulled ahead of us.
Rachel: Well. (beat) Any competition is good competition for me.
Eamon: Right. The Sunday 6:00 a.m. slot has been a bell weather for the Neilson company. Run along over to the desk please. Get settled.
Rachel: Ok thanks.

[Bounces away, then returns]

Sir? Mr. Spencer, Sir? I just wanted to thank you for this opportunity. I appreciate my position as the mid-day weather reporter, but truly think my talents lie in anchoring.

Eamon: (beat) Rebecca...
Rachel: Rachel.
Eamon: .... we try not to put the words ‘anchoring’ and ‘lie’ in the same sentence. An editorial quirk we have. Do us all a favor and stick to the prompter and don’t ad lib.
Rachel: I appreciate the advisement, Mr. Spencer. I won’t let you down.

[RACHEL walks over to desk. DAVE enters and takes up position behind camera]

Dave: Who’s anchor?
Eamon: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farms.
Dave: Midday weather? I thought she was a junior high truant before someone told me she worked here. Who else you got?
Eamon: Sunny Mehta is doing sports.
[DAVE rolls his eyes]
The day your union steward allows me to correct your outdoor shots that look like they were filmed through a shot glass is the day I will accept your feedback on our presenters.
Dave: I thought he went to that sports website, anyhow?
Eamon: We own that sports website and we needed anyone willing to come in on a holiday weekend.
Dave: Does he know how to speak American, yet?
Eamon: Position at camera one, please, Mr. Grazaldo.
[SUNNY enters]
Sunny: Had to call on the twelfth man, eh?
Eamon: Sorry?
Sunny: Cricket, man! The twelfth man ‘off the bench’, as the yanks would say.
Eamon: I was raised in Chicago. Crickets were something we thanked for not being cockroaches before ripping their legs off.
Sunny: That’s cheerful. No worries. When’s my segment?
Eamon:

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