Sitcom Geek

A deadline looms large. It's the BBC Writers Room window for submitting comedy scripts. From 9th March to 2nd April 2015, their comedy s...

Yes, of course they do. I'm sure many producers probably feel this way. Writers are just one extra voice in the mix which feels like i...

In the last blog post, I mentioned a brilliant edition of UK Scriptwriters podcast with writer and Script editor Andrew Ellard, who tweets...

A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog post about guest characters in sitcoms – and the danger of getting too excited about writing them. Th...

 Actual Police, not Logic Police, but you get the idea. Pic by Sky Noir via Flickr I’ve written before about the infuriating feeling yo...

Children’s sitcoms has often been considered a good ‘way in’ to writing Sitcoms for Grown-ups.  Those who work in children’s tv, however, o...

I've been a little quiet recently. The main reason is that we're shooting Series 3 of Bluestone 42 in South Africa. This usually ...