Are there any other places to send satirical/topical sketches ?
Apart from The Treason Show and NewsRevue...
If there are I'd like to know about them.
Periodic competitions on the BBC, I think Viz considers submissions (but you'd have to check it out).
At the risk of sounding paranoid if some one's got a foot in they may not share it. For fear of the legendary 3,000 e-mails the next day.
So look chase and google.
You could always try contacting satirical magazines and shows you like.
Quote: Norman Wisdom @ August 9 2008, 6:31 PM BSTAre there any other places to send satirical/topical sketches ?
Sketches - any sketches - tend to be written by people on the inside of a closed shop.
The advice I always get is to have a barnstorming sitcom pilot. It's the only thing most people will view.
But hunt around some smaller companies, may respond to a phone call.
You have to put the time into research, and ultimatley yourself.
Quote: sootyj @ August 9 2008, 6:40 PM BSTThe advice I always get is to have a barnstorming sitcom pilot. It's the only thing most people will view.
Yeah, that's correct I'd say.
I have heard this unfortunately. Also it can be a case of who you know.
And I never went to Oxbridge so I'm f**ked.
Of all the shows I hear 'The Treason Show' is probably the most democratic when it comes to commissioning little known writers.
Quote: Norman Wisdom @ August 9 2008, 6:44 PM BSTI have heard this unfortunately. Also it can be a case of who you know.
And I never went to Oxbridge so I'm f**ked.
Unfortunately? What, write something really good and get more work from it? How's that unfortunate?
And university has NOTHING to do with it.
A lot of production companies will read sketches, and they can lead to getting you work on their own sketch shows. It's not an every day occurrence, perhaps, but it does happen.
Quote: Seefacts @ August 9 2008, 6:49 PM BSTAnd university has NOTHING to do with it.
Going to the right university and making the right contacts there does not hurt.
Quote: Timbo @ August 9 2008, 7:45 PM BSTGoing to the right university and making the right contacts there does not hurt.
Who are the right contact at a uni though? You just might be lucky enough to be mates with someone who makes it?
Uni isn't a prerequisite for success. In the same way working in a shop and getting to know someone who makes it big isn't.
Seefacts is right, Uni plays no part in getting to know people or at least it hasn't for me. Write good material and send it off, it's the only way.
Not a prerequisite, no, but you have rather more chance of meeting future TV producers in the Footlights club at Cambridge than doing lates at Tesco's.
Quote: Timbo @ August 9 2008, 7:59 PM BSTNot a prerequisite, no, but you have rather more chance of meeting future TV producers in the Footlights club at Cambridge than doing lates at Tesco's.
I'm glad I choose lates at Iceland than lates at Uni.
Quote: Phill @ August 9 2008, 7:55 PM BSTSeefacts is right, Uni plays no part in getting to know people or at least it hasn't for me. Write good material and send it off, it's the only way.
Aw. Phill had no friends at uni.
Is James* still doing the show he was planning?
He hasn't been on here for a while and was ging to put his own one together.
* Forgot his surname.