Sitcom Geek

It's a question worth asking yourself all the time as you write. Do people really talk like that? There are plenty of moments where, if ...

I listened to Will Smith's Mr and Mrs Smith the other day - part of the Happy Tuesdays season of pilots on Radio 4. It was a show about ...

Comedy writing is hard. Sometimes it looks hard and complicated and watching it is intimidating. Non-audience shows particularly can be fast...

One of the best articles I've read about how to make your way in the creative industries is by a banjo player called Danny Barnes. He ha...

A friend of mine has pointed me to a cracking website here chock full of mp3s containing lengthy interviews with serious Hollywood screenw...

... as Oliver Cromwell said to King Charles. One of the things that I've noticed new and inexperienced writers suffer from is paranoia. ...

Comedy is huge business - and it always surprises me there isn't more of it on television. There is so little comedy now that every new ...