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Episode 186 - Mockumentaries and Meanies
James and Dave have read your Hat Trick Script Competition Scripts and here are the headlines: 1. It really is hard. 2. Thanks so much for sending them in. Oh and a few thoughts ab...
Episode 185 - Georgia Pritchett On Success, Succession and The Shrink Next Door
Currently one of our most successful comedy writers, Georgia Pritchett talks to Dave and James about the long road to success, working virtually in LA and making Armando laugh....
Episode 184 - Things We Wish We'd Known At The Start Of Our Careers
Dave reports back from his first two years of trying to become a novelist, and details the ups and downs of starting a new writing career. Warning: includes ignorance about the ind...
Episode 183 - The Secrets Of Comedy Writing Success
Work deep, build habits. Dave and James return from the break with great ideas to improve your writing productivity and increase fun. Plus a great new topical opportunity for 2022....
Episode 182 - Want To Do Better In 2022?
Make 2022 The Year Of The Comedy Writer. James and Dave offer a great guide for ensuring that next year is your best for writing yet. Includes hopes and goals, brutal frankness and...
Episode 181 - Any Questions?
Still time to polish that Hat Trick sitcom script to perfection. In this episode we answer your last-minute queries. What's a self-contained episode? How do we introduce characters...
Episode 180 - The Last Ten Pages
The Hat Trick Sitcom Script competition window is now open. Brrr! You've got five weeks to bash that script into shape. Everyone talks about the first ten pages but how do you writ...
Episode 179 - What Do We Want? When Do We Want It?
Good news - TV's top comedy commissioners want the same as we do for our Hat Trick Sitcom Script Competition. Dave and James discuss Broadcast magazine's Commissioners Panel meet i...
Episode 178 - Where In The World Is My Sitcom?
You've got two months to write your script for our Hat Trick Sitcom Contest. In this episode Dave and James talk about the pros and cons of setting your sitcom at work, home, in ou...
Episode 177 - Hat Trick Sitcom Script Competition
Exciting news - today Sitcom Geeks launch our Sitcom Script Competition in association with the mighty Hat Trick and BCG Pro - with £1000 for the winning script. What we're looking...
Episode 176 - The Comedians' Comedian Comedian Speaks
Stuart Goldsmith is a great stand-up and host of the superb long-running podcast examining what makes people funny. Great advice for freeing yourself up, going to Edinburgh "every ...
Episode 175 - Rules Of Life - And Comedy Writing
Dave and James go deep into smelling the flowers, keeping perspective and learning to love Bill Gates - all of which can help you to become better comedy writers. Also exciting new...
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