Whether exchanging glances with sexy strangers or exchanging insults with his combative colleague Joy, television writer Richard Westbrook lives a life filled with attractive, beguiling, just-plain-fanciable women ... and it sucks. Lacking the nerve to follow through on his brief encounters and slow-burning crushes, Richard has instead compiled a romantic history light on actual romance but heavy on cop-outs, what-ifs and missed opportunities. It's a good job, then, that the woman he fancies above all others - children's TV presenter Jessica George − enters his life only via Saturday morning show The Hangout. Well, until Richard vows to make up for every object of attraction that's ever slipped through his docusoap-writing fingers by landing a job on The Hangout and attempting to win over his favourite moderately famous TV hottie ...