Non animation stuff is at the end!

MY RECENT WORK INCLUDES;

 

Frankenstein’s Cat - Mackinnon and Saunders/CBBC. Development consultant, show bible and head writer for series. 32x11.

Pinky And Perky - The Picture Production Company/Lupus Films./CBBC. Development consultant , show bible, pilot scripts and head writer for series. 52x13.

Dennis The Menace. Red Kite Films/CBBC. Development work and pilot script for new series.

Mr Benn – King Rollo Films. Pilot scripts for new internet and mobile phone content.

 

Tv Loonland. Development work and show bible for a new comedy adventure show that hasn’t got a final name yet!

 

George And Alfred – Kayenta Production/Canal+. Show bible and pilot script for a new series of seven minute comedy shorts in a classic cartoon style. I also pitched this at Cartoon Forum.

 

Channel Four 'Animator In Residence' and 'Mesh' schemes. Script consultant, mentor and workshop runner for past three years.

Dead Ringers - animated sketches for three seasons of this popular BBC2 impressions show, plus the pilot of a children's version.

 

 

 

 

 

Flowerheads - Aardman Animations. Development consultant.

Hipster And Jack - Create TV/19 Entertainment. Development work, bible and pilot script for a new animated series.

Rudi And Trudi - Teleimagination. Several scripts for a new animated series for 4-7 year olds.

Harry And His Bucket Of Dinosaurs - Collingwood O’Hare/Silver Fox Films. One script, ditto!

PAST CREDITS; ANIMATION 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bounty Hamster - Winchester Films/Grrr Ltd/CITV

 

Co-creator, executive producer, script editor and writer on this 26x11 minute comedy/adventure series for children.

 

Bafta: Finalist – Best animated series 2003.

Bradford Anaimation Festival; Finalist - Best children's series 2003.

 

“ Witty dialogue… modern characters… highly original.”

- Bafta children’s panel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aaagh! It’s The Mr Hell Show! - Sextant/BBC.

 

Co-creator, executive producer, head writer and script editor on 13x28 minute episodes of the first globally screened animated sketch series for adults.

 

Gemini Award: ( Canada )

Best animated series 2002

Leo Awards ; ( Canada )

Best Animated Production 2001.

Best Direction 2002.

Houston International Film Festival:

Best Comedy Series 2001

Annie Awards: ( U.S. animation awards)

Finalist 2001.

It was also selected for the 2001 Annecy
                and 2002 Brussels Animation Festivals.

 

“ Slick, different and funny… Sunday nights have nothing to rival it.,”

 -  The Mail on Sunday.

 

“ Impossible not to look forward to the next episode .”

- The Sunday Times.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foxbusters -

Cosgrove Hall/Itel/CITV.

 

 

Development work, show bible and all scripts for 26x11 minute episodes of this series starring Whoopi Goldberg, Joanna Lumley and Jane Horrocks.

Bafta:

Best Animated Series 2000
British Animation Awards:

Best Children's Series 2000

Foxbusters was also selected for the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival and screened in cinemas though out Britain as part of a B.F.I. ‘Best Of British’ programme.

 

“ For its humour, storytelling, characterisation and above all it's wit to surprise the audience, the award goes to Foxbusters.”
- Children's panel - British Animation Awards.

             

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The First Snow Of Winter - Hibbert Ralph Entertainment/BBC

 

Script for half hour TV special, first aired on BBC1 on Christmas Day 1998 and repeated every year since.

Prix Jeunesse:
Best Children's Programme ( 0-6 fiction ) 2000
The Royal Television Society:
Best Children's Entertainment 1999

BAFTA:
Best Animation for Children 1999
The Prix Danube:
Best Independent Production 1999
Chicago International Children's Film Festival:
2nd Prize, Children's Jury for Best Animation 1999
Kinderfilmfest, Tokyo:
Grand Prize, Best Short Film 1999
Washington DC International Film Festival:
Best Film - Audience Award  - Jury Award 1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rex The Runt - Aardman Animations/Egmont/BBC.

 

Development work and 13x5 minute scripts, written with the show's creator Richard Goleszowski.

These resulted in the series being commissioned.

 

Bob & Margaret - Nelvana/Channel 4/Comedy Central.

 

Script consultant on the first season of this 13x26 minute series based on the 1994 Oscar winning short,

'Bob's Birthday'.

 

The Old Lady And The Pigeons - Django Productions/BBC

 

Dialogue for this Oscar nominated short by Sylvain Chomet, the creator of ‘Belleview Rendezvous’.

 

Seven Little Monsters - Nelvana/Wild Things Productions.

 

Development work and pilot script for a new series, working with acclaimed children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak

 

All About Andy - Fox Family Channel.

 

Development work, show bible and pilot script for a series based on a highly successful trilogy of children's books. Now in it’s second series in Canada and the States.

 

Tiki Island - Fox Family Channel.

 

Reworking of sales bible and pilot.

 

Dennis & Gnasher - Tony Collingwood Productions/D.C. Thompson.

 

Several 26 minute episodes, some co-written with Tony Collingwood.

Nominated for a BAFTA in 1998.

 

Animal Stories – Tony Collingwood Productions/CITV

 

Script for one episode of this Bafta winning series. Also published as a book.

 

Casper - The Animated Series - Universal Pictures/Harvey Entertainment

 

Scripts for several 11 minute episodes.

 

PAST CREDITS - LIVE ACTION


FILM AND TELEVISION 

 

 

·         Deadringers. BBC2. Contributing writers on the last two seasons.

·         Paradise Row. Script editor/contributor to comedy pilot for Working Title.

·         Saturday Live. Staff writer on LWT revival.

·         Pirates. 2x30 live action children's series for Childsplay and the B.B.C

·         Breaking Through. Writer/presenter of 60 minute documentary on East End writers for Channel 4

·         Archaos; A Night At The Circus. Writer/story boarder of 60 minute documentary for Yorkshire T.V.

·         My Friend Hellman. Script for 28 minute short for Red Galaxy Pictures.

 

“ The best short film I've seen in years. ” - Liz Webb, Electric Pictures.

 

RADIO

 

·         Time Hops. (With Dave Fox) 5x30 for Radio 4.   

Winner of Writers' Guild award for children's radio drama.

 

      “ Marvellously witty.”  - The Independent.

 

·         Tales From The Police Black Museum. 10x30 second spots for Radio 1.

·         Nobody Was Here. 2x30 for Radio 4.

·         The Cabaret Of Dr Caligari. 6x30 for Radio 5.

·         Vote, Vote, Vote For Captain Conehead. 2x30 for Radio 5.

·         Hit The Decks. ( With Dave Fox ) 6x30 for Radio 5.

·         Deadly Serious. 30 minute pilot for Radio 4.

·         Likely Stories. 2x30 for Radio 4.

·         Which Way Now? 12x1 for Radio 1.

·         Singles. 5 minute pilot for Radio 1.

·         Beyond Belief. 30 minute pilot for Radio Four.

 

CORPORATE WORK

 

·         Instructional videos for Doctor Martins and a time share company!

·         Audio guides for the Victoria and Albert museum.

·         East London Lines. A sequence of poems for London Underground.

 

STAGE (most recent)

 

·         One Step Beyond! A musical for the Theatre Royal, Stratford East.

 

“ A credit to the integrity of all   involved... street wise dia­logue, offbeat humour and warmth.”
- The Evening Standard.

 

·         I Fought Yuppie Zombies From Hell! An original musical for London Bubble.

 

“ Great one liners....the bruises it left were from laughing too much. ” - The Independent

 

PERFORMANCE

 

·         The Backpassages Of Spitalfields. A theatrical walking tour through East End history, now in it’s fifth year.

               

“ A tour de farce… would make any  music hall audience worth  it’s salt groan with laughter…  the cool, alternative option. ”  - The Independent.