Hat Trick developing sitcom idea by Isabel Fay

Hat Trick Productions is developing a sitcom based on the stage show created and performed at last year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival by comedian Isabel Fay (pictured).

A pilot for Little White Lies, a working title, is currently in production. The comedy is based on Fay's successful stage show, Altar Ego. The comic play, which she performed at the Fringe in 2007, focuses on a character called Blodwin. She is an employee at an old people's home, who creates a fictional boyfriend to silence the staff who taunt her about her love life.

Speaking to The Stage, Fay said: "I have written a pilot episode which, post-Edinburgh this year, Hat Trick and I are going to put forward for a pitching round at the BBC. I would just really like to make it, so any broadcaster would be lovely."

In the meantime Fay is currently preparing her new Edinburgh show Don't Let a Gift Horse in the House and filming her role in Dan Clark's new sitcom How Not to Live Your Life. That is scheduled to be broadcast in the autumn on BBC3.