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BBC Sitcom writer James Cary is all about helping you write better sitcom scripts.

Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Storylining & Plotting Part 3 – A Day In The Life

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In Part 2 , I suggested that the best way to make story-lining fun and easy, or less like pulling teeth and easier, is to have a b...
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Monday, 28 January 2013

Storylining & Plotting Part 2 – Low Hanging Fruit

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Let’s be honest. Being a comedy writer is a dream job. When I explain what I do for a living to my 4-year old daughter she gives me a very o...
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Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Storylining & Plotting Part 1

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The Americans don’t really have comedy panel games like we do. Why? Maybe they don’t have a culture of them as we’ve had, despite ...
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Thursday, 10 January 2013

Guest Characters

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One thing I've learnt (and had to relearn the hard way several times over in the last decade) is that in sitcoms, it is very hard to mak...
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Tuesday, 1 January 2013

Pull Back! Pull Back!

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A question that's come up from Twitter from a man called Simon goes thus: "At what point do you stop trying to mend a story that i...
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Saturday, 29 December 2012

Single Cam vs Multi Cam

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Via Twitter, Jake asked "Single cam vs multi cam, what works best for each format?" There's a short trite answer to this: Mult...
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Monday, 17 December 2012

The Larbey - Christmas Edition

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The latest edition of The Larbey is out now. Well, here, at least. If you right-click it, or something, you should/might be able to get it ...
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