You're the One

Creator: Ed Greenberger
Genre: Comedy
Age rating: 13 and older
A beautiful 36-year-old TV news anchor falls for a sophisticated 21-year-old intern. After their controversial romance creates a firestorm, she has to decide if the intern is worth jeopardizing her career.
Project collaboration: Closed
Full synopsis
Synopsis: 36-year-old Amanda is one of Chicago’s most beloved TV news anchors. Together with her hockey star boyfriend, they form the Windy City’s most popular couple. One problem: the hockey star is a little boy who won’t grow up and can’t satisfy Amanda’s emotional needs.

Along comes Danny, a 21-year-old news intern who shares Amanda's love of Bruce Springsteen and whose worldly maturity belies his age. Amanda is already thinking she and her boyfriend aren't built for the long haul. Then she gets to spend some quality time with her new intern and they just click. First, they go on a story shoot together. Next, they hang out at the local bar, playing trivia games and discussing The Boss' best song ever. Finally, they seal the deal when Danny accompanies Amanda on a business trip to Peoria.

Danny sweeps Amanda off her feet and, most importantly, makes the emotional connection with her that she’s been missing. Their friends think they might be crazy, but there's no question they seem to be meant for each other.

However, just when Amanda is beginning to fall in love with Danny -- thanks in part to an impromptu three-way ballroom dancing session at her apartment -- a newspaper reporter spills the beans on their affair and Amanda’s loyal audience shows signs of turning on her. Now, she has to decide if their forbidden love is worth the risk.

YOU’RE THE ONE explores the age-old question: what’s more important -– true love or your career?

Latest Work

  • Script 1 - Ed's Original Draft
    05/15/12
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    Creative Notes:
    I have been a television news anchor/reporter for nearly two decades, so I understand what the world of TV news is like and what types of pressures and issues it can create. Often, the business makes for strange bedfellows. I've seen it time and time again. This is the story of one of those relationships -- a love so odd that it might actually make a lot of sense.
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