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 Boy Meets Girl is a new four part drama that charts the progress of Veronica and Danny after an accident which causes them to swap minds. We have an exclusive interview with the writer, David Allison, in which he talks about his route into writing, his specific writing process, the startling reality behind the tag of New Writer that the press have given him, and the inside track on how to make networking A. Less fearful and B. More productive. Boy Meets Girl is a light comedy with an element of darkness at its heart. Martin Freeman (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of The Dead, The Office) and XXX) plays dreamer Danny Reed, whose life is turned upside down when he is struck by lightning and wakes to find himself trapped in a woman’s body. Instead of being a scruffy DIY store worker with no prospects, he has now swapped lives with glamorous female fashion journalist Veronica Burton, played by Rachael Stirling (The Young Victoria, Hotel Babylon, Tipping The Velvet) Danny suddenly has to learn how to walk in stilettos and put on a bra, how to deal with the amorous advances of Veronica’s boyfriend and how to pass himself off as a fashion expert while also trying to find out what has happened to his old self. His double life becomes further complicated when he discovers that Veronica has been having an affair with the boyfriend of one of her close friends. In this 38 minute interview, David Allison describes how he came up with the idea for show, how he found his lead character, and how it was commissioned. How through really exploring the truth of the situation he made an idea that is admittedly not the freshest on the block into a sharp series that captured the attention of everyone above him in the commissioning chain - and now, hopefully, will do the same with his audience. Sally Brockway asks David about
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