Aha. I'm sure lots of people round here would have wanted to see Bumgirls too. 
Sitcom Trials Autumn '09 Page 40
Quote: Marc P @ September 21 2009, 9:59 AM BSTHah!
I didn't get picked either. And those that did sound a bit shit.
I'd like to congratulate James and his readers on their script selection. I didn't read any of them until James emailed me the finalists yesterday, and I spent last night reading them all while you were on tenterhooks waiting for the results. There are some very good scripts in there and I look forward to some entertaining shows with some very tight voting decisions to be made.
One thing you might have noticed, and I'm not sure James has mentioned, is that there are 20 finalists, not the 16 you were expecting. Because the Sitcom Trials format has been adhered to closely by the writers we've got entries short enough that we can fit five scripts into every 90 minute show, and we've moved the start times to 6pm and 8.30 to give us extra time if necessary. So that'll be 4 heats showcasing 20 sitcoms, 10 scripts should then go through to the semi finals, and 5 should appear in the final (this is again subject to James leaping in and shouting "No you've got it wrong again you idiot, do you never listen?").
Of course this is scant consolation for the 360 out of 380 entrants whose scripts didn't make the cut, but the good news there is that Sitcom Saturday takes place on a regular basis in London, and Declan & Simon (producers of the last 2 Sitcom Trials competitions) will be looking for entries for their new Sitcommission project very very soon.
Tickets for the Sitcom Trials 10th Anniversary season, beginning October 19th, are now on sale at: http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/events.asp?eventid=220&categoryid=3
The BSG Forum or sitcomtrials.co.uk will be the places to catch the running order every week, and the results, which will be announced at the end of the second performance of the show every week (as part of the show), and be Twittered afterwards.
Those 20 finalists scripts are, in alphabetical order:
* "Alan Pob - Writing Wrongs" by Saul Wordsworth
* "Assemblage of Evil" by Joe Deacon
* "Baby, it's cold outside" by Peter Higgins
* "Bumboy" by Andy Crick
* "Don't Murder the Messenger" by Allan Payne
* "End to End" by Matt Holt, Steve McNeil and Sam Pamphilon
* "Future Proof" by Elise Bramich
* "Life as a foreign language" by John Barron and Olly Allsopp
* "Long Term Sick" by Mark Brotherhood
* "Lovely Rocks" by John Seymour
* "My Sister" by Robin Bailes
* "PR a History" by Graeme and Nicky Knowles
* "Prodigies" by Alex Kirk and Simon Messingham
* "The Bar Boys" by Ben Glassman
* "The Johns" by Hugh Travers
* "The Not Gots" by Malcolm Duffy
* "Therapy" by Tom Carter
* "The Second Best Job in the World" by Chris Gilgallon
* "The Spy who Wrapped up Warm" by Jim Speirs & Simon Bristoll
* "Weathermen" by Ken Cheng
I am a bit lapsed as a BSG contributor, but we did get through with an idea which I first mooted in BSG critique a while ago, so I owe BSG a big 'thank-you' for the positive crits it got at the time. Of course we now have the worst title in the fianl bunch (no its not 'bumboy')so no doubt humiliation awaits in round 1.
Hi Jane.
Quote: Ponderer @ September 21 2009, 11:27 AM BSTHi Jane.
Hiya and well done on getting through again!!
That's three I have to try and see now. Let me know when your first heat is.
Quote: Kev F @ September 21 2009, 10:47 AM BSTThere are some very good scripts in there
Well as long as there are 'some' very good scripts. Can't have all 20 scripts being very good now. 
Congratulations to everyone who got through. I'm a little bit bitter, not so much for myself (who am I kidding?) but for the other BCG regulars who didn't make it through. You're all obviously not funny, like me.
Good luck with the competition and I hope 'commission-y' things are in the finalists futures.
Unfortunately, I also didn't get through.
BUT, on a more positive note, I did get a rejection from production company on Friday!
...oh, no, that's another negative. BUGGER.
I posted our script entry on the crtique section of this website but I think people have gone out of their way to avoid it.
I did have a read Adam, but it wasn't really my cup of tea so didn't comment.
Adam what is yours called. There are quite a few critque threads at the moment.
Two Guys, One Table
Cheers. I have just spotted it I shall have a read in a bit. From looking at it I am guessing you have uploaded the whole ep.
Yes; everything including cliffhanger (not the movie) and payoff
Congrats, Ponderer.
Which is yours?
It would be nice to know the premises of the 20 sitcoms too, as the titles don't give much away... apart from Bumboy.
Quote: Mikey Jackson @ September 21 2009, 5:00 PM BSTCongrats, Ponderer.
Which is yours?It would be nice to know the premises of the 20 sitcoms too, as the titles don't give much away... apart from Bumboy.
Thanks Mikey,
Mine was supposed to be: PR: A Partial,Prejudiced and Ignorant History. They shortened it to PR History, less pretentious but equally crap. Titles have never been my thing.
The premise (which, as I said, I posted in critique as a newbie a while ago)is a PR agency that travels back in time to right the great PR wrongs of history, -which of course includes making a profit for themselves.
It's mostly about PR people and the arrogant and dangerous notion that things are improved by a generous layer of bullshit, rather than the intricacies of time travel.