Sitcom Mission 2012: The Final 32
Saturday 3rd March 2012
Sorry to keep you, but these things take time...
Thank you all for your patience and for staying interested. We know how much you've all invested - time, money, emotion, hope and fear - and we don't take you or your feelings lightly.
It was a tough choice this year, and because we're going to be heavily involved with script development, we've gone with a number of choices that we can see the potential in. We're looking forward to working with the writers and seeing the rewrites of:
| Sitcom | Writer |
|---|---|
| The Change | Kate Wilson |
| Desk Monkeys | Tom Polkinghorne |
| Julian and Declan | Philip Barron |
| Fall From Grace | Eoin Carney |
| Non Stop Drop | Simon Mackness |
| All In The Risk | Gavin Grant and Gregor Dean |
| Give A Little | Jo van Tijn |
| The Art Of Going Nowhere | Asher Pirie |
| Doing It For The Kids | Ian Clarke |
| Estate | Jack T Stonell |
| Keep Off The Grass | Sarah Christou |
| Six Pounds | Mina Maisuria |
| The End Of The World | Liam O'Brien |
| Hijacked | Dylan Spicer |
| Also-Rans | Declan Taaffe & Chris Jeal |
| Dying For A Happy Ending | Tracey McKoy |
| Sparky's | Tom Kirk & Stephen Davison |
| The Staff | Emma Cochrane |
| Urban Guerrillas | Nathan Robinson |
| What Dreams Are Made Of / Wolf Country | Christopher Allsop & Stuart Gidden |
| Yo Valet | Snez Naik |
| Medicine To Follow | Stephen Keyworth & Mark Clompus |
| The Box Shop | Richard Smith |
| Postdocs | Eoin Carney |
| FY1 | Brian Digby & David Ure |
| Help Yourself | Natalie Johnson |
| Games Night | Roisin Rae |
| Plan C | Joe Deacon & Tom Guy |
| Temps | Jamie Willcocks |
| Punk's Not Dead | Michael Bailey |
| Jumpers | Larry Barker |
| Cold Front | Daniel Austin |
(The above list is in no particular order)
Long-listed writers, we'll be in touch in the next 36 hours.
For those who didn't make it to this stage, we hope to see you at a show in April/May. Tickets for the Semi-finals and Grand Final shows at the New Diorama Theatre are on sale here
And we're running another Introduction to Sitcom Writing workshop on Saturday March 24 in London. Details here
If you'd like feedback on your script, we've opened up the feedback option again. Details are here
And there's always our ebook Your Sitcom Mission... Should You Choose To Accept It. More info
Thanks again for all your hard work, we're nothing without you.
Simon and Declan