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Sitcom search: the final 40

Back in August, we launched our Sitcom Search competition to award one writer or writing team a £5,000 development deal with Big Talk Productions and Comedy Central UK.
The quality and quantity of entries was ludicrously high – so high, in fact, that we had to delay this announcement by two weeks – but after reading 2,136 scripts, our judging panel has made its decision. Here are the 40 finalists. Drum roll, please…

2:2 by Lewis Elliot, Josh Mellor, Sid Sagar and Toby Shevlane
The 7.52 by Christopher Glasson
A Month Of Sundays by Daniel Hobden
All The Fun Of The Fair by Alan O’Brien and Dominic Murphy
Beneficiary by Rupert Apsden
Bobby by Juliet Valdez
Craig by Steve Nelson
Date Me by Ziella Bryars
Digs by Alasdair Morrison
Diminishing Returns by Mohammed Mahbood Khan
Dirty Barry by Paul Hinnrichs
Drone by Ian Gordon
Dumped by Laura Fountain
Four’s Company by Mark Pinshon
Funny Girls by Julie Currie and Paula Currie
Hated by Nathan Thomas
Intelligence by Louisa Fielden
Keep Off The Grass by Sarah Christou
Last Days Of Home by Rachel Aroesti
Laundry Service by James Chapman
Mascots by Neil Bennett
Memo by Peter Brownlow
The Motherhood by Abby Woolf
Multiplex by Simon Craig
The Neighbours From Hell by John Rooney, Stephen McCole and Paul McCole
Off The Road by Matt Plass and Kai Merriott
Roadies by David Nicholds
Rosencrantz by Francis Blagburn and Angus Harrison
Siblings by Martin Holmes
Specials by Mark Clompus and Stephen Keyworth
Status by Hannah George and James Whitehouse
Summertime by John Hart;
The Support by Lyndsey Honou
Three’s A Tribe by Pete Barnes
Tight Five by Matthew Stott
Twenties-Thirties by Tim Sewell
Under Exposed by Matt Oakley
Uncle Richard by Ben Cottram
Vargon Lives! by Christopher Stanners
The Wonderkid by Ed Palmer
Congratulations if your name is among them. And make sure you pick up next week’s issue, where we will whittle that list down from 40 to just four…

Tags: Comedy

The next Sitcom Trials is a Sci Fi Special on Nov 28th, deadline for scripts is Nov 4th.