Tuesday 23 June 2015

Sitcom Trials Manchester video + results

https://youtu.be/b5eFWKfba4A


The Sitcom Trials in Manchester held their first Sitcom Trials of 2015 on Sunday night, at marvellous new venue The Kings Arms in Salford. Click on the video to see highlights.

 They performed 4 scripts - The New 20 by Mark Green, Ann Dram by Daniel Page, Thrift by Ashley Frieze, and The Magic Men by Tom Smith. And the winner was...?

(Spoiler alert - go on watch the video)

The winner of the audience vote was The New 20 by Mark Green. The next Sitcom Trials is in Birmingham on Friday July 3rd, see you all there.

UPDATE: Here are the full clips for:
Ann Dram
Thrift (a tiny part thereof, sadly)
The Magic Men

Thursday 11 June 2015

Cardiff, Manchester, Birmingham Sitcom Trials updates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_xVPF-Q2Ik

Cardiff, Manchester, Birmingham Sitcom Trials updates

On Tuesday night the Cardiff Sitcom Trials team, aka Dan Mitchell and A Boxfull of Comedy, had a reading of some of the scripts that have been shortlisted for their forthcoming show. They also gave a brief reading to the script which ranked lowest in the online poll, the results of which you can see in the video above.

(This script, I have subsequently learned, was a deliberate exercise in writing the most offensive piece possible. Elliot and his co-writers will be delighted to learn they've succeeded).

The Boxfulls read some of the most popular scripts from the online shortlist, including a couple of their inhouse creations and have three scripts still to read at another meeting before they make the decision as to which scripts they'll do on July 28th.

Two of the favourite scripts, Agent of LOVCRAFT and Matchmakers, are written by Cardiff writers, one by a member of the cast, so they look most likely to make the final show, and went very well in the reading.

Other scripts read on Tuesday were My Boss Was In An Indie Band, The Magic Men, and Bringing In The Sheep.

http://www.kingsarmssalford.com/?id=9 http://www.eventflask.com/event/43364/sitcom-trials-cardiff

The Manchester team have expressed an interest in performing:
The Magic Men
Ann Dram
The New 20
and Thrift
- in their show on June 21st. A final announcement will be made soon.

Birmingham's team, aka Aaron Twitchen and Foghorn Improv, have drawn up a shortlist of the favourites from the scripts that were sent directly to them (they didn't do an online vote). They are:
Both Sides Now - Rachel Sambrooks
My Boss was in an Indie Band - Mark Hibbett ***
Mary Godmother - Dan Sweryt
Friday Nights - Arthur Burke
The Cleaners - Richard Constable & Roger Sanders
Thrift - Ashley Freize  ***

(The asterisks show scripts that are also being done by Cardiff or Manchester). Aaron will be announcing the final line-up for Birmingham's July 3rd show shortly.

Congratulations to all the writers who've entered scripts, and thanks to the team leaders and performers in Cardiff, Manchester and Birmingham for the sterling work they've done so far.

A reminder that scripts are still wanted for the Glasgow Sitcom Trials, details here, deadline August 8th.

Kev F Sutherland
Executive Producer
The Sitcom Trials



Monday 8 June 2015

Sitcom Trials online script voting - the results

http://www.kingsarmssalford.com/?id=9 http://www.eventflask.com/event/43364/sitcom-trials-cardiff

Thankyou to everyone who read, reviewed and voted on the scripts in the online script selection for the forthcoming Sitcom Trials in Cardiff and Manchester. Here are the results, totalled and checked by Judgement Dave. Every YES vote scored 2 points, a MAYBE vote scored 1 point, and a NO vote scored minus 1 point. This table shows the results when writers votes for their own scripts are discounted:

RankScoreTitle
125Agent of LOVCRAFT
218My Boss Was in an Indie Band
314The Magic Men
411The Matchmakers
59Ann Dram
67The New 20
67Thrift
86POPSCENE!
95Blue Door
95Bringing in the Sheep
95Serenity House
123Yesterdays News
132Jehovah the Hill
132Malibu Crush
15-1Secret Agents
16-2Mentalectro
17-3Death Runs a Cornershop
18-4Their Majesties' Secret Services
19-5Boys in the Band
20-6NEGATIVE
20-6Reis & Paul
22-9Ruther Edge
23-15A Different Band of Brothers
24-16What was your porn name Darling?

The votes, including votes for the writers own script, are at the foot of this post. I propose the selection for the shows be made on the table above, and not the one including writers votes for themselves.

I shall now be talking to the Manchester and Cardiff teams about which scripts they would like to showcase from the favoured top end of the chart. We will report back as soon as we can as to which scripts are to be performed where.

Birmingham's script were sent directly to producer Aaron Twitchen , who will be making the decision on which scripts they will be showcasing. Stay tuned for details.

All the best, and thanks again everyone.

Kev F Sutherland
Executive Producer
The Sitcom Trials

http://www.kingsarmssalford.com/?id=9

http://www.eventflask.com/event/43364/sitcom-trials-cardiff

The votes, including votes for the writers own script, look like this:

RankScoreTitle
125Agent of LOVCRAFT
218My Boss Was in an Indie Band
316The Magic Men
413The Matchmakers
59Ann Dram
68POPSCENE!
77Blue Door
77Serenity House
77The New 20
77Thrift
115Bringing in the Sheep
115Yesterdays News
134Jehovah the Hill
134Malibu Crush
15-1Secret Agents
16-2Mentalectro
16-2Their Majesties' Secret Services
18-3Death Runs a Cornershop
19-4NEGATIVE
19-4Reis & Paul
21-5Boys in the Band
22-9Ruther Edge
23-15A Different Band of Brothers
24-16What was your porn name Darling?




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