Blog posts by year and monthMay 2007
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The Con Is Online
Like Hustle? Ever wondered how that whole breaking-the-fourth-wall thing was described in the script? I know I did. Wonder no more. Thanks to production company Kudos and writer Tony Jordan, we now have the script for the very first episode available in our Script Archive. As usual,...
Here we go again...
Time for me to rewrite my first draft. Although it sounds like a pain-staking task, I do enjoy it. The bulk of the script's down so it's just a case of strengthening the characters and sprinkling a bit of magic comedy dust over it. (Mind you, if it was that easy I suppose there wouldn't be a re-...
Miranda Hart's Joke Shop
For the last year or so, I've been working as a script editor and writer on Miranda Hart's Joke Shop, a new sitcom set in, uh, a joke shop. This weekend it's being piloted on Radio 2, at 1pm on Saturday 26th May, just after Jonathan Ross' show. This - or, to be more precise, the recording - was ...
One Person's Opinion
A bun-fight between the theatrical and critical establishments has escalated to near-hilarious proportions. It all kicked off when Nicholas Hytner, director of the National, lambasted the 'dead white men' who have held onto their jobs as first-string theatre critics for thirty years and, he clai...
Chim-chimminy
Confirmed this week that I'm off to London in the summer to have a nosey round the set of Grown-ups when the second series goes in to production. I can't wait as I get to shadow Susan Nickson, the writer, for the week and see what really goes on behind the scenes. I've also heard from the Two Pi...
A day out... in prison.
Last week I got to have a nosey around the set of a new ±«Óãtv3 sitcom at the Pie Factory. I was lucky enough to have read a few of the scripts before I went down there so I knew I'd be entertained. It was very strange walking in to the set - which looked exactly like we were in prison. Perhaps I s...
Readers' Day
Yesterday the writersroom had one of its occasional Readers' Days, when all the readers � or at least the ones who aren't rehearsing Shakespeare or making puppets � meet up to discuss one particular script and meet development producers from across the ±«Óãtv. This is a rare chance for us to...