The production team face a new challenge to come up with a hit show for ITV. Cornish surfing soap Echo Beach has been cancelled and the writers are out of a job. Can egocentric producer Jonathan Pope find his next big idea? And will everyone else manage to cover up his trail of faux pas?

The team learns that Echo Beach is no more and Jonathan Pope's job is on the line. While he begs Nancy for another series, the welfare of his production team appear to be the last thing on his mind - in fact their prospects look bleak. However, as the team prepare to move on to new horizons a clause in Jonathan's contract means ITV must now offer him a pilot to produce - much to Nancy's annoyance. Never one to soften, Nancy gives Jonathan a paltry minute to submit a treatment for a pilot or face the sack.

Ever the survivor and desperate for a great idea, Jonathan goes to extremes in order to find a great idea and out of this Renaissance, an apocalyptic zombie drama, is born. Nancy isn't worried though; she is convinced that this abomination of film will never see the light of day as it'll never pass the litmus test from the focus groups. She's convinced Renaissance will never grace the home of Coronation Street and Ant and Dec!

Despite Nancy's assurance that Jonathan will fail catastrophically, he manages to cast his leading lady almost instantly by poaching Kelly Brook from an ITV period drama that's filming nearby.