Just Once Can You Not Betray Me?! JUST ONCE?!

I'm fairly certain that my friend and ex-work colleague Shibby is some kind of double-agent. Earlier this morning, we were discussing the fact that the ABC has miraculously decided to schedule the Doctor Who Christmas Special on Boxing Day - less than 24 hours after the UK has seen it. This, for me, is somewhat akin to a Christmas Miracle, especially as the ABC have a tendency to air regular episodes of Doctor Who about three weeks behind the UK, and specials aren't normally seen for months.

Really - before I go on - I just need to state that this is cooler than fezzes and bow-ties combined.

It was shortly after this branch of the discussion that I realised that Shibby and I had been talking about this very issue not twenty-four hours beforehand! After noting this with Shibby, I decided that surely they were spying upon us - they are, after all, a great evil organisation, and we have both done work with them in the past. Image how easily they could have bugged us!!

Shibby decried this fact, promptly declaring that they may or may not be spying on us, but that they are most definitely "Idea Thieves". It was then that she made her major slip-up in keeping her cover a secret. "I emailed them AGES ago, when Channel 10 was playing Torchwood at crumby times," she started "and I was like 'Dood, you should totes buy the rights to play Torchwood 'cause you already have a market for it - Dr Who. So it'd do better on your station ANYWAY." That, of course, would seem perfectly innocuous - were it not for what she said next.

You may wish to brace yourself for the damning evidence: "...Didn't hear back from them...Months later, the ABC is all 'OHAYYY WE'RE PLAYING TORCHWOOD NOW!'"

"Oh suuuure," I hear you thinking, "what's the big deal?" The big deal, buster, is that Shibby has now had not only one of her ideas implemented by the ABC - but she's had at least two (and one of them seemingly over-night, so we know that she works fast!) And those are only the changes that I know she's made to TV. There are also countless design influences that she's had on apps and websites produced by the ABC, and goodness knows what she's done behind my back.

Alas - I fear that we haven't much time! We must band together to stop this threat to our security, and so forth. Or we could, you know, just go along for the ride. Because, after all, if she is a double agent, then she appears to be working quite well on the side of humanity (as opposed to the ABC) - she got us Torchwood on a decent channel, and she has scored us Doctor Who within a reasonable time-frame.

You know what? Stuff it.

I for one welcome our new Indie-Girl Overlords.

The moral of this story is that I may, or may not, be a double agent. This may, or may not, just be me covering up the fact that I really am a double agent. Later on, when you accuse me of being a double agent, and having never told you this fact I may, or may not, then use this blog post to show you that I confessed to the whole thing. Internet sarcasm it a truly magical creation. I wonder if I'm on a watch list now.