Tom Lane (David Sutcliffe) is the star columnist for the San Francisco Sun newspaper which is owned by a huge media conglomerate, and the parent company headed by Anthony Shephard (Garry Chalk), is interested in increasing Tom's media exposure by producing a new television show around him. Meanwhile Liz Madison (Dina Meyer) is the advice columnist for the little read community newspaper, the Marin County Voice, which is the epitome of a gentler age.
Apart from both being journalists, and being
singletons with their friends and family doing whatever they can to find that
special someone to fill a void in their personal lives, they have nothing in
common.
At the beginning of November the staff at the Voice
learn that the conglomerate that owns the Sun has bought their newspaper, with
the likelihood that the Sun would swallow them up, meaning all the staff at the
Voice would lose their jobs.
To fight back, Liz decides to abandon her advice
column and change it into a forthright editorial espousing the true meaning of
Christmas and championing the Voice’s importance to the community, and because
of the feisty and entertaining nature of Liz's new column, the circulation of
the Voice increases dramatically, so much so that the new owner has second
thoughts about closing it.
The knock on effect of that would be to put Tom's
new television show in jeopardy, so to protect his career advancement, Tom
decides to write a contradictory column to Liz's, advocating the need to instil
some practicality into Christmas.
So The competing columns become a personal battle
for the two adversarial columnists, but while Tom and Liz are spewing out their
mutual loathing for each other and what they stand for, their respective
friends try to convince them of the old adage that opposites attract and that
there is a fine line between love and hate.
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