A few years ago, Tage and I got involved with local author Dave Wolverton in his attempt to start a production company. We eventually realized that his eyes were a little bigger than his capacity to follow through, so nothing much happened with it, but in the process we came up with about a dozen in-depth treatments for TV shows. One of these, developed exclusively by Tage and I, was about a high school girl who becomes an apprentice to Death. She has to go around a collect souls from people who are scheduled to die, and occasionally she has to collect them by force from people who refuse to die. It had some very interesting elements, and in the years since Tage and I keep coming back to it and wishing we could actually do something with it.
The thing is, somebody already did--it's coming out on Showtime in a month. The people involved have no connection to us, so we're not crying plagiarism or anything, but the concept is remarkably similar. I mean amazingly similar. It's one of those times where you really wish you'd done something with the idea instead of just sitting on it.