Sitcom Trials: Football vs Perfect 10 - and the winner is also...

Tuesday, 3 January 2012

Football vs Perfect 10 - and the winner is also...

The Sitcom Trials first TV series was broadcast live at around 11.30 on Friday nights, with the actors only learning which sitcom's ending they'd be performing during the ad break. Live skin-of-the-teeth television at its best.

In episode 7 of The Sitcom Trials series 1 we saw two sitcoms in competition, Perfect 10 by Rich Johnston and Football by Bowdler and Manning.During the ad break the viewers have voted. Yesterday we saw the winner as voted for and performed on the night. Then, after the live broadcast had finished, we kept the cameras rolling and, for the benefit of posterity (or, as it turned out, YouTube) performed and recorded the ending of the runner-up. Here it is...

Perfect 10 by Rich Johnston
Football by Bowdler & Manning
Winner
Alternative winner

The Sitcom Trials returns in 2012, writers and performers are welcomed. See here for details.

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Sitcom Trials debut Edinburgh Fringe cast (l-r) Gerard Foster, Charity Trimm, Kev F Sutherland, Miranda Hart, Dan Clegg

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Created, produced and presented by Kev F Sutherland, The Sitcom Trials take place at London, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Cardiff, and Bristol. The show has enjoyed successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, national and international touring shows, and an 8 part TV series on ITV1. In 2008 the Sitcom Trials won the Fringe Report Award for Best Encourager of New Talent, and in 2013 formed part of the So You Think You're Funny competition.

Performers who have appeared in The Sitcom Trials over the years include Miranda Hart, Neil Mullarkey, Richard Vranch, and the Comedy Store Players, Tony Robinson (Baldrick), Edinburgh Comedy Award nominees Cariad Lloyd, Waen Shepherd, and Laura Solon, James Holmes, Justin Lee Collins, , Steve McNeil & Sam Pamphilon, Sara Pascoe, Russell Howard, Mark Olver, Aaron Barschak, Emily Lloyd, Danny Robins, Dan Tetsell, The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, Lucy Porter, Nick Ewans, Louisa Gummer, Anne-Marie Draycott, Dan March, Rich Johnston, Wanda Opalinska, Gerard Foster, Charity Trimm, Dominic Frisby, McNeil and Pamphilon, and of course Declan Hill & Simon Wright who went on to produce two seasons of the Sitcom Trials then create the Sitcom Mission.

Reviews for the show have ranged from the Leicester Mercurys "We were screaming with laughter... move over Friends", through the London Evening Standards "We're not watching stand-up, we're watching comedy history", to Metro's notorious review of the 2002 Edinburgh Fringe show: "I would happily have voted to have my own eyes gouged out with hot spoons rather than endure another moment." The most recent review reads ★★★★ "You will not be disappointed" - The Public Reviews 2012

Sitcom Trials TV series 1 (ITV) Wanda Opalinksa and Gerard Foster