Strange Allure by Susan Lewis

Author:Susan Lewis
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781409007999
Publisher: Random House

Chapter 14

IT HAD TO be fifteen months or more since Carla felt this good. In fact, her old energy was flooding back with such gusto that she was having trouble keeping the emotion from her voice and euphoria from her words as she stood in front of the small cast she and John had chosen, and the production team that was going to enable the new series to happen, briefing them on what it was all going to be about. They were in the ménage’s spacious back room, which, for the next few weeks, was going to double as a rehearsal and viewing room. Standing here, in a brand new plum wool dress, the first she’d bought in over a year, and an expensive pair of black suede boots, addressing her new team as their executive producer, was saying more clearly than anything that she really had pulled through the worst of the bad times, and was now heading right back to the top – and beyond.

‘The funding we’ve managed to raise so far, for the new series, has surpassed even my wild expectations,’ she told them. ‘Last time around we set some very high standards, which we now aim to exceed, and, thanks to the increase in budget, as well as the bonus of having John Rossmore on board – with an exceptionally talented group of actors and crew behind him – I’ve no doubt we will.’ She didn’t look at John, who was sitting in a chair to her right, legs stretched out in front of him, thumbs hooked into the belt loops of his jeans, though she could almost feel his irony, and was hard put not to smile herself. ‘The last programme in the current series is due to air next Monday at eight, then the entire series will be repeated starting in February, on Tuesday nights at ten. This is a major bonus I wasn’t expecting, and is confirmation indeed that we are as good as everyone says we are, with the notable exception of a few confused TV critics.’

After the amusement had passed Frazer, the production manager, said, ‘Any dates for the new series’ transmission yet?’

‘Probably the same time next year,’ Carla answered, ‘with a repeat showing again in the spring. Everything’s really taking off, but we’d be fools if we believed ourselves invincible, so let’s understand right now that there’s one heck of a lot of hard work coming up, for everyone, and I want you all to remember that no one person is more important than another, because that’s not the way we work. We’re a team, so we all pull together, which means you can feel free to share your complaints, concerns and especially ideas with either John or me, and give us any kind of input you think might be valuable.’

At that moment the door opened and Kit Kingsley, the giant bear of a lighting cameraman, came in with a fresh cup of coffee in one hand, a heavy holdall in the other, and a genuinely apologetic look on his face.

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