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IAN POACHE IS STANDING CENTRE STAGE FACE ON TO THE CAMERA BEHIND A WOODEN PODIUM. HE IS IN HIS EARLY TO MID FIFTIES. EITHER SIDE OF POACHE STANDS JACK GIBSON AND NICK JONES, ALSO BEHIND WOODEN PODIUMS. ON TOP OF THE PODIUMS ARE GLASSES OF WATER AND SMALL FURRY TOYS AS THEIR MASCOTS. GIBSON IS IN HIS EARLY THIRTIES AND IS STANDING STAGE LEFT WHILE JONES WHO IS IN HIS EARLY FORTIES, STANDS STAGE RIGHT. ALL THREE MEN ARE WEARING SUITS. POACHE IS ALSO WEARING A PAIR OF MIRRORED SUNGLASSES.
IAN POACHE
Hey I’m back!
SILENCE
Poache.
POACHE REMOVES HIS SUNGLASSES.
Ian Poache.
SILENCE
(Imploring) Poache’s Generation Game?
SILENCE
(Imploring) Poache’s Loveboat?
POACHE POINTS TO A MAN IN THE AUDIENCE.
You remember dont you?
THE MAN SQUINTS TO FOCUS ON POACHE.
MAN
(Angrily) Hold on, you aint Noel Edmonds!
POACHE
(Dissapointed) That’s the problem with Channel Five. Small station, small audience.
POACHE SHAKES OFF HIS DISSAPOINTMENT.