Northwest Vision and Media, create the bigger picture
Writing for Laughs... and a TV Commission
Writing
TV
comedy
- like
Shameless
–
Northwest
Vision
and
Media
is
pleased
to
bring
a new
Scriptfactory
programme
to
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.
Although seats are selling fast, we still have a few places left.
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.
