Ok cool, thanks 
That's the bit that was confusing me hahaha
Sitcom Trials Autumn '09 Page 53
Hi guys
Here's wishing The Sitcom Trials a great final show on Tuesday.
The Sitcom Mission is indeed free to enter.
We have a couple of places available for our What's Wrong With My Script? workshop this Saturday in central London. It's £40 and you'll get feedback along with an MP3 of your sitcom. One attendee at last weekend's workshop described it as "massively inspiring".
Details are here:
Declan, Simon, you're both on the guest list for the Grand Final, hope you got the emails and texts. Oh, did I say that out loud?
And, talking of changing the subject, here's The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre plugging their appearance at the forthcoming Big Event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbLsRd1Met4
Some of the judges from 2009's Sitcom Trials http://sitcomtrials.co.uk give their tips on writing comedy. Includes David (TV Burp) Quantick, Iain (Inbetweeners) Morris, Carrie (News Quiz) Quinlan, Marc (How Not To Write A Sitcom) Blake, Richard (Whose Line..?) Vranch, Nev (Dead Ringers) Fountain and Daniel (also TV Burp) Maier.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65hnrbVk7-g
Judges that got away include Laura (School Of Comedy) Lawson and Roland (Land Girls) Moore, who appear in the videos from the show but whose clips I lost, and Tom Price, Wanda Opalinska and Bill Dare all of whom I interviewed having pressed pause instead of record.
Quote: Griff @ November 29 2009, 9:31 PM GMTKev have you just bought a new camcorder?
You'd think I'd know how to use it by now wouldn't you? This is the same camcorder that's recorded all the Socks videos for the last three years, and that I've schlepped along to all this season's Trials with. I don't think it's a bad video record, simple as it is. But I'd like to see our future shows shot even more professionally. Stay tuned for that sort of news.
Good luck to all those in the final. Have a great night, sorry I can't be there to see it.
Who won?!
I asked that over 5 hours ago.
is it some sort of secret?
Have got a spare ticket for The Now Show tomorrow Thurs 3rd. Let me know if you'd like to come.
Worth pointing out also that the Audience vote went to "Baby it's cold outside" by Peter Higgins, and directed by Lydia Parker.
Thanks Griff, and thanks too to enidcoleslaw.
i just like typing it.
Quote: Griff @ December 2 2009, 5:11 PM GMTIs that you, Lydia?
Nope. Just an innocent bystander.
Make that two spare tix for The Now Show tomorrow
Quote: simon wright @ December 2 2009, 4:30 PM GMTI asked that over 5 hours ago.
is it some sort of secret?
No, I was having a flipping day off
Official results are now on the web site - http://www.sitcomtrials.co.uk - although you already know the audience voted for "Baby, It's Cold Outside" and the judge's ultimately went for the fantastic "End to End". Should be a video up today, if Kev's Twitter is a solid source.
Great show, lovely crowd, nice to see a few recognisable BCG faces in the audience - I hope you enjoyed the show.
Congrats everyone. Well done!
Dan
At long last, after an unbelievable 18 hours trying to upload it (long story, something to do with changes at YouTube) is the video diary from the Grand Final of The Sitcom Trials. Features interviews with all the casts, clips from all the sitcoms in the final, and the all-important results.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcEaOXath5w
Congratulations to all the writers, directors, actors and judges who've made this, the 10th Anniversary Season of The Sitcom Trials, such a success.
James Parker deserves the greatest praise for his production of this season. The directors he found to work with have done marvellous work, the casts have been outstanding, and the end result on stage in every single Heat, Semi Final and of course the Final was outstanding. It is, without a doubt, the best and most consistent season of Sitcom Trials shows that I have seen in the ten years I've been involved.
The nature of producing this show is that the first thing any critic will notice is things that go wrong, and it's so much harder to notice when things are just running smoothly. So it is to James's credit that there were no glitches, no missing casts, no under-prepared productions, in fact the only thing I'd criticise was some of my compering which, thankfully, the Socks spared us from in the Final. Oh and the occasional error in the weekly programme, which was also my doing. I have no doubt James had many frantic moments behind the scenes, but he kept those all well and truly hidden so neither I nor the audience ever became aware of them.
Paul Gannon deserves special thanks too, for being Minister Without Portfolio/ASM and doing so much of the work on the day of every show that I am overwhelmed with guilt that he never got mentioned in the programme.
I may write more of my thoughts on the season, but for the moment I'd be much more interested in hearing yours. As a participant or a spectator, what did anyone think of this season of The Sitcom Trials? (And should we do it again?)