British Comedy Guide

Self-staging: Can you pilot your own TV show?

Bob Fletcher and a poster for his Stand Up: The Gameshow pilot. Bob Fletcher

Despite credits including A League Of Their Own, Question Team and Guessable?, freelance TV producer Bob Fletcher is currently out of work. Now battling the challenge head-on by staging a no-budget live pilot for a comedy format he's developed, he explains more exclusively to BCG Pro.

You work in telly but are out of work...?

I am one of the gazillion unemployed people working in TV right now. Once you get off the TV merry-go-round, it can be really difficult to get back on. Being from a working-class family (violins please), the stakes are high - when you're out of...

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Stand Up: The Gameshow took place on Wednesday 14th August in Walthamstow.