My Life as a TV Pilot: Emily Nabney

[dropcap]I[/dropcap] already live a life filled with passion, drama and improbably great hair, so it’s not difficult to imagine what my life as a TV pilot would be like.

Photo: Flickr/Pete Morawski

The plot goeth thusly: a beautiful and highly intelligent princess (that’s me, of course) from a minor European country lives a life of luxury – until her father (played by Sean Bean, obviously) is deposed in a bloody revolution. The princess is forced to flee the country and go into hiding, enrolling as a student in the picturesque, windswept landscape of, er, Warwick University.

Now the princess faces a new challenge: assimilate with the rowdy and somewhat unwashed locals. Tiaras have been replaced by headbands and balls have given way to drunken grinding at POP!, but the princess knows that one day she will take back her father’s kingdom (with Fire and Blood, probably). However, in the meantime, she might as well make herself the beloved (yet feared) Queen Bee of Warwick, so with the help of her Sassy Roommate (played by Emma Stone), must learn to mix with the commoners.

Of course, no TV series would be complete without a hastily tacked-on love triangle to increase the ‘stakes’. And here’s mine: on the one hand, there’s the brilliant seminar tutor with a wry sense of humour and an uncanny resemblance to Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne), and on the other, there’s the mysterious, brooding yet artistic boy who lives down the hall (Aneurin Barnard). Is he a spy, a secret billionaire or a vampire? You can find out once the CW picks up the show this year!

Title: The Princess and the Paupers.

Theme song: Taylor Swift, ‘Style’.