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Writing for Laughs... and a TV Commission
Writing TV comedy - like Shameless - our new programme heads for Manchester
Tell somebody you are going to make them laugh and you are guaranteed two things: a stony silence at the end of the gag and instant scorn…. It's the easiest way of not making friends. The same applies to narrative comedy. You think you've written a witty, sharply-observed piece with an important and new way of sketching the world with humour. What happens? No-one laughs and they really don't like you very much.
Writing for Laughs... and a TV Commission is a one-day workshop about TV comedy discussing both how you make people laugh as well as offering a route-map to getting your work commissioned by telling you who wants what and why. The course uses a case study of a project which became a BBC TV Comedy Commission, outlining the emails, meetings, reads and road-tests that convinced a sceptical commissioner to get behind the project.
This session is presented by Will Hanrahan, Managing Director of Hanrahan Media, an independent which has produced one of the BBC’s biggest comedy commissions of 2008 – Trexx and Flipside.
Writing for Laughs... and a TV Commission
Thursday 17 July
10am–5pm
Manchester Cathedral Conference Centre
10 Cateaton St
Manchester
M3 1SQ
Places cost £50 (incl. VAT) - to book your place by credit or debit card please call The Script Factory on 020 7851 4890.
This training programme is generously supported by North West VISION AND MEDIA