Sitcom Trials So You Think You Write Funny shortlist

Announcing the 30 shortlisted sitcoms for the heats of The Sitcom Trials – So You Think You Write Funny 2013

The Sitcom Trials returns in force in 2013, with the ultimate competition to find the best new situation comedy talent in Britain. And this year we have joined forces with The Gilded Balloon, producers of the UK’s longest running comedy new talent competition –

So You Think You’re Funny.

The 30 shortlisted scripts are
 

Alice & The Genie, Neil Tollfree

Alien Hunter, Richard Hattersley

As Plain as Day, Richard Dowling

Cash & Currie, Bobby Finn

Cast, Peter Etherington

Cuz Zombie, Belgrave & Coppin (animation)

Detached, Collins & Taylor

Fall From Grace, Eoin Carney

From Home, Darryl James (WP)

HMS Bagworth, Gary Stocker

I See A Penguin, Richard Dowling

Is It Just Us? Olly Allsop & John Barron

Medicine to Follow, Keyworth & Maguffins (WP)

Most Likely To, Anderson & Brayshaw

Networking, S Davenport

Never Better, Rosie Holt (WP)

None Of The Above , Lewis Cook (WP)

Oh Be Joyful, James McMellon

Out Of My Head, Colin McQuaid

Project Romance, Harriet Cummings

Separate Parents, Sweryt & Spiers

Shirley’s Temple, Chen & Leigh (WP)

Situation Normal, Naomi Carter (WP)

The Last man, Dan McKee

The Thrift Collection, Graeme Knowles

Theatre, Andrew Tate

Three In Tow, Eoin Carney

Trainspotting, Graeme Knowles

Waiting, Martin Holmes

You Banker, Richard Dowling

(WP indicates a writer-performed sitcom) 

Thanks to everyone who entered, commiserations to those who didn't make the cut, and particularly well done to the three writers who each have found themselves with more than one script in the final running. A result of having a panel of script readers, judging the scripts independently on their merits, has led to a fine selection of sitcoms which will now be performed in a series of six nationwide heats.

The dates for the heats are:

Fri May 3 - Manchester Heat 1 (Lass O'Gowrie)
Fri May 10 - London Heat 1 (Camden Head)
Fri May 31 - Bristol Heat 1 (Wardrobe Theatre)
Fri June 7 - Manchester Heat 2 (Lass O'Gowrie)
Thu June 13 - Bristol Heat 2 (Wardrobe Theatre)
Fri June 14 - London Heat 2 (Camden Head

Fri July 19 - London Semi Final 1 (Camden Head)
Mon July 22 - London Semi Final 2 (Camden Head)

Final Weds 21st August 2013 (The Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe)

Kev F Sutherland

Producer

The Sitcom Trials

sitcomtrials.co.uk