Change the actors – and the stakes – and it's a tired plotline familiar to many governments across the world.
There was insufficient time to pursue with the prime minister the possible Australian political analogies of a plotline in which a leader apparently set for a long reign is cut down prematurely.
Here are just some of the British TV shows that could benefit from his unique screen presence, with only minor plotline adjustments required.
The 68-year-old said she would like to take on a fresh television role next, if she could avoid a violent plotline, because she believed much of the best writing was now done for television films and drama series.
After Coronation Street's tram crash, this week viewers protested bitterly to the BBC about an EastEnders plotline in which the mother of a cot death victim swaps her baby for another woman's.
Both are black comedies of late-20th-century manners, and the initial disappointment stems from the seeming similarity of character and plotline.
But that would require Washington to get its act together a plotline so implausible that it would make J.K. Rowling blush.In any case, an even bigger copyright issue is brewing.
The romcom requires a plotline that keeps the lovebirds apart.
They bring lightness and humour to a dark story of family secrets and rivalries that the director has mined from the imposing mythology of the Coppola family.One plotline evokes the story of the living doll who is torn to pieces by the wizard Coppelius in "The Tales of Hoffmann".
The TEAM an American troupe influenced by avant-garde companies like The Wooster Group and Elevator Repair Service seems lost for most of this play, which spins a bunch of stories around "Gone with the Wind", including a hackneyed plotline about a sleazy Hollywood producer remaking the book for the screen.
Although it is ostensibly just a children's film, the plotline has a strong pro-immigrant messageThe 2014 Economist Advent calendar Our 2014 advent calendar is filled with a collection of the 24 most popular maps, charts, data visualisations and interactive features published on our site over the past year.
