The three Cs for characters

Characters, as we know, are the beating heart of every sitcom.

The jokes might be funny (let's be honest: the jokes better be funny!), the world interesting, and the plots involving - but it's the characters we return for week after week.

Here are 3 crucial elements to consider when working on your characters.

1) Coherence

Your characters should make sense - they need to be more than a mish-mash of attitudes and attributes thrown together.

There should be an internal consistency to your characters: indeed, they should feel so consistent that we know how they will react in certain...