Agency Drama

No, that's not our Tom and Dave having artistic differences (they're quite chummy, thankyou), it's a scene from the new TNT series Trust Me, set in a fictional modern-day ad agency. Given the success of Mad Men (agency drama set in the early '60s), we had to know a contemporary glamourisation of the advertising life wasn't far behind.

TNT is the network that brought us ER and X-Files - make of that what you will. More encouraging, perhaps, is that the show was created by two former ad agency inmates. So why does the show rate a mention on Beyond?

'One of the things we wanted to hit on with the show is how the business is changing and how some people are more successful at changing with those times than others.' - Hunt Baldwin, Trust Me creator, in this rather entertaining interview

Would be interesting to see how the show wrestles with that...this video sneak peek only highlights some of the typical frustrations that have been present in agencies for time out of mind: