Matt Tiller
Matt Tiller

Matt Tiller

  • Actor, writer, producer, executive producer and musical comedian

Press clippings

BBC Audio Awards 2024 nominees

Call Jonathan Pie, Kat Sadler's Screen Time, Michael Spicer: Before Next Door, Mockery Manor, She Stoops To Conquer and Where To, Mate? are amongst the nominees for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2024.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd December 2023

Radio 4 orders Michael Spicer sitcom series

Radio 4 has ordered a series of Michael Spicer: Before Next Door, the semi-autobiographical sitcom created by The Room Next Door star.

British Comedy Guide, 8th October 2020

Should I take a show to the Edinburgh Fringe?

If you follow any comedians on Twitter, read arts pages in newspapers / online content providers or are in Edinburgh in August then you'll know that the Edinburgh Fringe is happening. Right now. I'm on the train heading up there, literally now. Has it finished yet? No, it goes on for blimmin' ages. It lasts pretty much the whole of August. Which is why people bang on and on about if for ages in August. I've done it, I know. Talk to my friends. Actually, don't; they wish to hear no more about it. But as a writer/performer/producer/directer, whether you've got your foot in the door and stepped directly onto the ladder while passing go and collecting £200 or are stood waiting at the door in the pissing rain with no coat or umbrella then it's worth thinking about Edinburgh.

Matt Tiller, , 23rd August 2016

Formatting Issues

What is best way to pitch a TV format idea to a production company? I get the impression that format ideas tend to come from within production companies, and they're not particularly open to ideas from the outside.

Matt Tiller, , 28th July 2016

Catch 22

You feel like you're making progress. And you are. But then... nothing. Back to square one like the worst game of Snakes and Ladders you've ever played.

Matt Tiller, , 14th May 2016

Meh-dea Mogulling - commonly pitched comedy ideas

Most great ideas start with a great idea (I'm amazing at this, I should do a workshop and charge one million dollars). But they also start with an absolute bucketload of terrible ideas. Or average ideas. Let's call them meh-deas and that could become another brilliant media term for tossers like me and you to use. What may come as a surprise is that there are some very commonly pitched meh-deas.

Matt Tiller, , 25th February 2016

250 to 1 - The Terrible Script Pitching Gameshow

The reasons why those 249 scripts get rejected are many and varied. It's all subjective, but those scripts will almost all be of very good quality.

Matt Tiller, , 10th November 2015

Taking rejection

Learning how to deal with the tough times is a necessity in the world of showbiz.

Matt Tiller, , 22nd November 2014

Video: At the Hebburn premiere

Giggle Beats were given exclusive access to film and report on the night, nabbing some juicy interviews with executive producer Matt Tiller, Hebburn creator Jason Cook (Ramsey), comedian Steffen Peddie (Big Keith) and Curtis Appleby (Hutchy) amongst others. And with a little help from our friends at KYEO.TV, we'll be showing you all of our footage over the next week or so.

Giggle Beats, 17th October 2012

What came first, the funny or the tune?

There has been a massive resurgence in musical comedy in recent years, so we asked guitar strumming comic Matt Tiller what comes first... the funny or the tune?

Matt Tiller, British Comedy Guide, 20th August 2011

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