What's up post-doc?

The cold open: Sunset on a Hawaiian beach with the silhouette of a causally dressed man. He is looking into the sea, enjoying the view and the life he is living. We shall never get to see the face of this man throughout the series of this "sitcom", and this enigmatic man goes by a single letter; A.

The man's peaceful moment is disrupted by the ringing of his mobile phone. He hastily answers.

"Hi A, it's the department here. We're just wondering when you'll be back from your conference. You've been gone for three months or so and whilst we're impressed with the amount of research you've done, we feel that your PhD students might be suffering with the lack of a supervisor. Any estimate on when you'll be back?"

"I'm not entirely sure, but probably in the next couple of weeks or so. Don't worry, my PhD students are in the capable hands of my post-doc."

"Well, we'll trust you. Enjoy the rest of Havard and hope you're not working too hard. We'll see you soon."

A hangs up with confidence, takes one deep sigh, and returns back to his relaxing moment on the Hawaiian beach; the complete solitude he is in.

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A close up of a fairly young face in his late 20s on his distressed, tired face. As the camera slowly zooms out, it is revealed that he is being talked to from three different female students, each trying to have their own different conversations with the young man. Each student is talking over each other, trying to grab the young man's attention (in some cases physically and generally being quite aggressive) by explaining things on the blackboard and showing them results on their laptop.

Finally, as the camera pans out enough to reveal the young man is sitting distressed in a fairly small office with these three female PhD students, the young man falls flat faced onto his office desk, tired from the exhaustion of the students.

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Title screen: What's up post-doc?


A new sitcom revolving around Mark, a young post-doc who is put in charge of supervising his supervisor's PhD students. Trouble is that they're all unruly female PhD students, each with a mind of their own. Hilarity ensues as he tries to cope with supervising these students, whilst his supervisor enjoys his life on a Hawaiian beach but taking all the credit of course.