Yet another outstanding TV opportunity as a TV production company
looks for someone who is thinking of throwing it all in and following
their dreams.
The idea is that you're someone who is in mid to later life and
has decided to leave their job, move somewhere lovely and follow
their dream, perhaps to become a mountain guide, or run a bunkhouse
in a godforsaken corner of the Scottish highlands or what have
you.
The cameras will follow you around for 12 months and make you a
star, erm, maybe.
Anyway, for the sake of clarity, here's the press release
in full, viz, we didn't write the next bit:
Are you about to up sticks, pack in your job, and do what you've
always wanted to do with your life?
If so, the makers of a new TV series would like to hear from
you.
Twofour Productions, responsible for hit series including The City
Gardener, are looking for people planning to use their mid-life,
retirement, early retirement or semi-retirement as an opportunity to
live out their dreams.
"It doesn't matter whether you're a 65-year-old who dreams of
opening a seaside café, or a 40-something with a high-pressure
city job who'd rather go and keep bees in a sleepy village," said
Executive Producer Jill Lourie.
"We're looking for people who are clearing the decks, blowing away
the cobwebs, and preparing to live the life they've always
wanted.
"You might be down-sizing and moving to a country cottage with
roses round the door, or spending your children's inheritance on a
Harley so you can slip into those leathers and get your kicks on
Route 66.
"But we'll be focussing on your new business venture in the UK, be
it a cottage industry or something that will make the world sit up
and take notice.
"Life Begins is not a show about making money - it's a series
about finding happiness - and our cameras will spend 12 months
following your journey every step of the way from the farewell
handshake at work, through the selling of your old home and the
buying of your new one, to your first tentative steps into the new
life you've always dreamed of.
"We'll be watching you leaving your old friends, making new ones,
meeting your new neighbours, and finding your feet in whichever arena
you've chosen for your new life here in the UK."
If you'd like to take part in Life Begins or would like to know
more, please contact Jon Massey on 01752 333900 or e-mail lifebegins@twofour.co.uk
Now if you'll excuse us, we're about to throw in our life as a web
site editor and go live the dream as a stockbroker in
Singapore...
Thanks to OMer Alison Stockwell for the lead. Alison's about to
throw in her job and open a pancake house in Lapland, erm, not.
