Quote: Ronnie Anderson @ October 15 2009, 7:26 PM BSTI have a hot tip for next years trials http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NjuMHg1BxM
Cross thread satire...excellent work Ronnie. 
Sitcom Trials Autumn '09 Page 47
Thank you pond
Two of the sitcoms for Monday's first heat of The Sitcom Trials have now set up their own Facebook pages and started inviting guests that way (see links below). Will that initiative show up in the results of the voting? We'll have to see. Meanwhile directors, writers or cast members of future scripts might consider doing the same thing, it can't hurt.
Line up Monday 19th October
* Life as a Foreign Language
by John Barron and Olly Allsopp
Directed by Kym Suttle
* Long Term Sick
by Mark Brotherhood
Directed by Lydia Parker
* Prodigies http://bit.ly/oD1rl
by Alex Kirk and Simon Messingham
Directed by Chris Lince
* The Not Gots http://bit.ly/2YdcKR
by Malcolm Duffy
Directed by Nick Ewans
* Alan Pob - Writing Wrongs
by Saul Wordsworth
Directed by Chris Fitchew
Just to steal Kev's thunder for a change - here's the official programme for the first show on Monday - http://bit.ly/19OLop
Edit: File is no longer huge. So can be downloaded without a warning
I haven't got a facebook page. Plus I'm having to travel down all by myself because the train tickets insanely expensive... consequently I'm going to be there all alone, scared and without an entourage or support network. Would anybody here be prepared to laugh loudly at my piece simply out of sympathy please? Thanks x
Don't worry Mark, you'll be fine. We're one big (social awkward) family at the Sitcom Trials (until it comes to voting, when it's every writer for himself).
Mark, and the other writers who haven't set up a Facebook page, needn't worry. If the RSVPs on their pages are a good guide, then the friends of each sitcom only make up a small percentage of the audience. The funniness of the sitcoms themselves will be all that counts. And both James and I will be there to make ourselves known to all writers, and any other stray souls. Hopefully nobody should feel left in the cold, and we may end up as one big well-connected family.
Sorry to hear your train ticket was so expensive. I booked mine from Bristol for just 9 quid (First Great Western seems to be running a special offer, lucky us).
I've emailed James a much smaller pdf of the programme for you to look at later. The printed programmes look set to become collectors item classics, I may try and get mine signed by the judges.
I'll be part of the BSG brigade attending this tomorrow.
Would love it if a similar thing could be brought to Manchester.
Set it up, Ronnie.
I am currently converting my bedroom into a mini theatre for the sitcom trialz (the z means I am not copying the idea of anyone). More information on how to enter will be available shortly. I am sorry to Kev and James for stealing your thunder but you missed a gap in the market my friends.
Quote: Ronnie Anderson @ October 18 2009, 12:26 PM BSTI am currently converting my bedroom into a mini theatre for the sitcom trialz (the z means I am not copying the idea of anyone). More information on how to enter will be available shortly. I am sorry to Kev and James for stealing your thunder but you missed a gap in the market my friends.
I'd love to do a Sitcom-Trials North - there's plenty of comedy industry based in Manchester, and we don't always reach them in the same way with a London-centric show.
Once Ronnie's bedroom conversion is ready, we'll start accepting entries 
J "A Sitcom Trials on every street corner!" P
Who's going to this tonight then?
Markb's sitcom was by far and away the funniest one and I was glad to see it go through.
It was good to meet so many of you tonight.
If we can organise a venue, who would be up for a sitcom writers networking/piss up?
Simon