Quote: Griff @ September 13 2008, 2:00 PM BSTPromise to be gentle with me Bomber.
I'll be a perfect gentleman, Griff... besides, it looks like there's plenty of time for foreplay before the main event begins. And an extra 16 joining in too. Hmm, this analogy could get messy...
Got the email yesterday. didn't read it till just now, but I'm in the final 32! I can't believe it. I was having a bad day today as well, so that's cheered me up and then some. Me half an hour ago -> 
Me now -> 
Quote: Griff @ September 13 2008, 4:01 PM BSTYay! Which one's you, earman2009?
Lite Flyin' is mine.
Good to see so many BSGers in this thing. Best of luck to the lot of you. Except really only one of you can win. Who wants to start a sweepstake on this thing?
If it's most mates, I'm buggered! Chances are I won't even be there let alone my mates! It might be difficult to get to London for me. 
I'd try and get there Earman, it's uplifting to see actors working with your words. You'll love it.
Well done all you others too.
Well done all! Great that quite a few of the BSG are involved rather than those fictional 'floaters' that never hang around here, so can't possibly exist... 
Best of luck to all. Might even pop along to a heat or two, if people keep us informed as to where/when.
Dan
wow well done all. That's not a first time for you is it Griff
I'll definitely try my best to get down there. Seeing it live would be awsome.
Congratulations Griff,Earman and Hackett. Hopefully get to meet-up with some of you in London!
Quote: Griff @ September 13 2008, 6:55 PM BSTCheers bushbaby, no this is my second year thanks. Will you be coming along to see any of the heats?
I'd love to and maybe I will but I'm going on a cruise for two weeks in Jan and probably come back skint!!
Then again I can get rail fare for about 13 quid...I'll see how it goes but I'd love to see them and again well done, it must feel fabulous
The full list of winners, and a message from Simon Wright, is on the evry1sacritic.com blog, and I've added it to the Sitcom Trials Facebook page and the Sitcom Trials Myspace blog.
Since I had nothing to do with selecting the scripts, I have no idea who wrote them all. If the writers would like to attach their names to the list of titles, I'll happily update the websites.
Kev F
sitcomtrials.co.uk
Those final 32 scripts again:
Alf N Dick
Almost Grown
Boarders
Call Centre Blues
Canteen Culture
Chain Gang
Charmed Life
Circus Land
Crisis Line
Dave
Desperate Men
F*&k Buddy
From Riga To Rotherham
Ghosts
Hedgehogs
Hope And Anka
Kwarfee
Lite Flyin'
Lost and Found
Museum
Naked Flame
Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown
Pumpkings
The Boot Room
The House on Windsor Street
The Same Paige
Three's a Crowd
Top Shelf
Toys
Trainspotting
Welcome to the Jungle
Where Have All the Girls Gone?
Quote: Griff @ September 13 2008, 4:49 PM BSTLet's wait and see how the Trials are going to work first, whether it's industry judges or "who's got the most mates"...!
(It was both last year - "most mates" until the final four, when it went to industry judges.)
The mates business is just wrong.
What if you live in Norfolk for example?
Quote: Griff @ September 14 2008, 10:33 AM BSTPresumably if you live in Norfolk you invite the 500 cousins you are married to and all go up to the big smoke together in one of they new-fangled charabancs, pointing excitedly at aeroplanes as they pass overhead.
You are right though, the mates thing is wrong. It was the biggest downer about last year. But I can see where they're coming from - stand-up comedy contests often work on audience vote, which is the same thing, and also, an incentive to everyone to bring as big a mob as possible increases ticket sales. But as a way of genuinely deciding the best sitcom, it sucks.
The first part of your seeing where they are coming from I diagree with, it's a different beast with stand up, but I fancy you might be right about the second.
Isn't there some kind of tie in contract too, that if if a show goes on to get made they get your first born child and a percentage ad infinitum of any money you make too?
Quote: Griff @ September 14 2008, 10:47 AM BST*cough* will PM you about the Herod aspect of things *cough*
- the acts who bring the biggest mob wield the power, as the mob tends to lose interest once their mate's sitcom has been on, and start talking to each other and ignoring the activity on stage, which is a major disadvantage to the other performers. Also while their mate's stuff is on they laugh and cheer the loudest. So taking control of the room through ticket sales, for stand-up contests OR the Sitcom Trials, makes a significant impact on proceedings.
So even if you don't win because it is organised in that bearpit way, do you still have to ante up some money from the show being developed somewhere else? Or is it only the 'winner' who has to do that?