sitcom idea

Gather together a collection of warped, neurasthenic Europeans. Living in a magnificent palatial fortress on the edge of Madrid with views over the mountains. They are all artists with their curious projects (to deify the mandible nut; to excorcise Satan from Limoges: to swim the Baring Straight in a toga etc). The lingua franca is English. They all speak it in mutant fashion. They are jealous of one another. Wary and bitchy and opaque, indulging all their national traits. Allow to stew and see what occurs.