Apparently that happened with Dilbert. The author made stuff up and people kept writing to him saying "That story-line is just like $COMPANY, that's where you got the idea, right?"
Armando Ianucci has said that one of the reasons he stopped writing the political satire "The Thick of It" was politicians were now doing things that they'd written off as too implausible for the show.
Also I suspect Veep pays a lot better for basically the same idea.
I really enjoyed those! Seems like you've real talent:
"After my speech tonight one little boy came up to me and said simply, "I'm hungry".
I wanted to take him in my arms and tell him: "I feel it too, champ. I feel it too. I feel the hunger to succeed, to create a product that Johnny Ive would truly appreciate, I know precisely what you're going through."
