Sitcom Geek

Since the last post here , there's been some discussion on Twitter about hack scenes and cliches. Simon Blackwell made the point that yo...

In the past, I've blogged about hack lines - or clams as they're called in our world, at the moment. That's  here and here . An...

How do you introduce a new character into your sitcom? Quickly. That would be my advice. Jasmine (Susan Wokoma) rocks Maybe you hav...

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...