Tursiops
Thursday 3rd September 2009 1:02am
Welwyn Garden City
9,788 posts
Reading the brief I wonder if they haven't lost the plot a bit. If the focus is on the content of communication rather than on the method, then as Nogget suggests it is not really more about communication than any other sketch show. So instead we have six shows, each around a different theme, some of which strike me as being distinctly easier to write to than others, which with non-coms being limited to two sketches each, means that the spread of material across the six shows is likely to be very uneven, in terms of both quantity and quality.
As a non-com this redesign actually makes it quite difficult to know what tack to take. Do you go with your best two sketches, regardless of which of the six themes they fit? Or do you try a tactical approach? Perhaps submitting a sketch on a subject you struggled with, on the basis that if others were having the same problem they may have avoided the theme, reducing the competition.