I know. 15 mins means writing something new and stopping work on the re-writes making the first scene of our pilot watertight. Hmmmm.
A decent 15 min plot – Hmmmmmm.
Characters that are "instantly recognisable" – Hmmmmmm.
In short - Hmmmmm. It'll just be a long sketch, surely?
Just been emailed. They now have a website: http://every1sacritic.com/Site/Home.html
Dan
Oooo, hark at Little Lord Fauntleroy. Clearly SOMEONE's their favourite.
I still haven't had a reply at all. It's as shoddy as Doddy fronting Showaddywaddy.
Well, we'll see about that. (If a 3-hour play about an acerbic lump of poo wondering about the point of life is on, I will take your point...)
Dan
We are giving it a miss, but good luck to everyone.
Just priorities. We are currently rewriting our pilot after writing episode 2, which we did to "inform" - if you'll excuse me being a ponce - what people will actually read, i.e. episode 1.
The idea was to send episode two and hope for the best.
We don't have time to write a bespoke 15 min episode and besides, we think a 15 minute sitcom is just a very long sketch and not narrative comedy at all.
Also, Showaddywaddy.
Quote: Griff @ March 7, 2008, 2:56 PMNorton&Wright: - Just out of interest, what has put you off entering ?
Yeah? Not man enough?
We are two men. Surely that's man/men enough.
Quote: Norton&Wright @ March 7, 2008, 3:07 PMWe are two men. Surely that's man/men enough.
We'll see. To the Bussell Dome!
I am very afraid of "the Bussell Dome" and am strenuously hoping that it isn't purple.
Quote: swerytd @ March 7, 2008, 12:24 PMJust been emailed. They now have a website: http://every1sacritic.com/Site/Home.html
Dan
I was just going to post that. I haven't looked yet though.
I just received the following.
Good news.
Last year most writers ignored our 'keep the staging simple'
advice and we were flooded with entries that would make James
Cameron blanch at the budget.
We introduced a reading fee of £5 in the belief that this would
a) make them think hard about whether their script was actually
suitable (pressing 'send' is too damned easy) and b) generate income
that we could feed back into the productions.
However. The BBC Writer's room (who are important to us) won't
promote anything with a fee attached. We need the Writer's room
more than we need the odd fiver, so we have decided to waive the
reading fee entirely.
Yay!
Have a good weekend.
Simon
for every1sacritic.com
(if you have sent a cheque we swear by the sainted Armstrong and
Bain to return it. Immediately)
Revised deadline for this is 15th August. Simon's posted in a different thread (deadline seems to have changed since his post, mind!)
https://www.comedy.co.uk/forums/thread/5989/3#128049
Dan
I'm not sure anyone else entered this already, but in case you did and wondered, like me, if the'd extension was due to lack of quality material, I got this reply from Simon yesterday:
"The original deadline wasn't until April 16th, so we haven't started reading yet.
The Arts want a later kick off, that 's all. The good news is that we've got time to spread our net wider and our writers have more time to hone their scripts. It's a win-win, really."
Something that isn't in the guidelines (there was no need for it last year, for some reason) is that we are looking for scripts with series potential-it's hard enough for established writers to get a one-off comedy on TV-you need to provide characters and a premise that imply at least 5 more episodes.
And, yes, the deadline is now August 15th for a September kick off.