Sitcom Geek

I was talking to some comedy writers last night - and we were thinking about why we liked BBC4 so much - the comedy, the documentaries and e...

I'm going to spoil a book for you. An expensive one. That Robert McKee book called Story , which is now an astonishing £19.99 in paperba...

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...