Wednesday, 13 April 2022

Kick Start Your Sitcom Script

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You’ve got some characters. And you’ve got a situation. You’ve even thought of some jokes. What now? I really want to show you with a practi...
Tuesday, 22 March 2022

How to Make your Sitcom Funnier by Starting in the Middle

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In the first two articles in the series  I really laboured why your script should not involve your lead character turning up to their first ...
Monday, 14 March 2022

Is your Lead Character the Least Funny Character in Your Sitcom Script?

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You can either read this blog, or watch me explain the whole thing in SEVEN minutes - with some nice visuals and graphics - here: Wanna re...
Wednesday, 9 March 2022

The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Sitcoms

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  “Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start…” That’s how Maria (Julie Andrews) starts her Do-Re-Mi song. If you’re writ...
Tuesday, 8 March 2022

Why You Should Join my Mailing List

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I've been very quiet recently. Plenty is brewing. I've been reading literally hundreds of pilot sitcom scrips for the Sitcom Geeks ...
Wednesday, 2 March 2022

What Writers Want (apart from money and coffee)

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There's not been a blog all year. And here’s the main reason I’ve been quiet: I’ve been reading scripts. Loads of them. Hundreds. Thousa...
Thursday, 28 October 2021

Why You Should Not Start Your Sitcom In Iceland

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I don’t quote Jesus much on this blog, and I’ll have to be honest and say he was not referring to writing sitcoms when he said this: “For wh...