For TV writing work, my writing partner Ciaran and I are represented by Rebecca Watson at Valerie Hoskins Associates. You can find their contact details on their website here, and watch a special film we made for them here...
The list of shows was getting a bit long so I've trimmed it down to some of our best known shows and personal favourites, but if you're curious, you can download our full writing CV at the link below. Actually, even that's had to be trimmed a bit for length these days...
The list of shows was getting a bit long so I've trimmed it down to some of our best known shows and personal favourites, but if you're curious, you can download our full writing CV at the link below. Actually, even that's had to be trimmed a bit for length these days...
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The Amazing World of Gumball
It's one of the craziest and best cartoons in the world, and we were on the writing team for Series 4 through 6, writing on over 25 episodes.
Best Bugs Forever
Welcome to Shifty Sands - to humans, a rundown motel in the Nevada desert, but to the hundreds of bugs who call it home, it's the best city in the world! Ciaran and I wrote about half of the series and oversaw the writing team for the rest, and we're really proud of the living world we created.
Danny & Mick
If there's one thing we love more than a bit of live action slapstick - it's a LOT of live action slapstick. We head wrote this new sitcom for ace circus performers Danny and Mick. And yes, they're really brothers. Really really.
Diddy Movies
Until now, the four episodes of this show were the craziest things we'd ever written for Dick and Dom...
Diddy TV
...but now there's Diddy TV, a crazy funhouse reflection of the entire world of dumb telly shows out there!
We wrote about half of the sketches, songs and links across the four series, which thanks to its guest stars means we can now add Reece Shearsmith to the list of famous people we've written for! And for now, please enjoy this very angry advert...
We wrote about half of the sketches, songs and links across the four series, which thanks to its guest stars means we can now add Reece Shearsmith to the list of famous people we've written for! And for now, please enjoy this very angry advert...
Miffy's Adventures Big and Small
Ciaran and I wrote half of this show and script-edited the other half, over three series plus a special. Blue-Zoo have done a beautiful job of bringing the characters to life, this really is a very sweet show that's loved around the world!
Mr Bean: The Animated Series
After a ten year gap, Tiger Aspect made a brand new series of the international smash hit Mr Bean: The Animated Series, and we wrote a whopping 19 episodes, over a third of it! Fortunately it took less than 10 years to commission series 3, which we wrote another 14 episodes of and head wrote the remainder. It's in heavy rotation on CITV, which means you can get yourself a quick fix at any time on the CITV player!
Digby Dragon
Honestly this show has some of the BEST animation I've ever seen in a kids' cartoon, simply gorgeous, coupled with a beautiful attention to comic detail from the amazing Blue-Zoo studio. Series 2 is on its way - due to other writing commitments I've 'only' been able to write two episodes for it!
Counterfeit Cat
Observe the two cats on the left. If you look very, very closely you may just detect the cunning costume and spot that one of these cats is in fact an alien in a foolproof disguise. The other cat is simply a fool. It's a fun show - and we won the British Animation Award for best writing for our episode 'Sardonians of the Galaxy'!
The Slammer / The Slammer Returns
Our big break into TV came when we were talent-spotted at the Edinburgh Fringe for the first series of this prison-based variety show. Series producer and diamond geezer Steve 'Two BAFTAs' Ryde liked us so much he had us back on in a variety of silly wigs as different acts on every series, and more importantly invited us to write episodes for every series since, including the revamped 'The Slammer Returns', notching up a fifth and the current sixth series for which we managed to write more than half of the episodes! Thanks a million, Steve!
The Furchester Hotel
The Sesame Street - CBeebies coproduction starring Cookie Monster and Elmo that generated so much interest, it even made it onto Newsnight, we were involved in this one from the start, taking part in the early development, writing a pilot episode, and now writing five eps across the first series, or first two series, they keep changing the rules for how you count these things! But who cares about that, the point is I got to meet the REAL Cookie Monster! Me so happy!
Dennis The Menace & Gnasher
How cool is this? We got to write a load (and I mean a load) of episodes for series 4 of 'Dennis The Menace & Gnasher', starring two of my childhood icons! I have the best job in the world. And we wrote a further 6 episodes for the recent CGI reboot, 'Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed!'
You can generally find at least one of our eps, and also see exclusive mini-episodes, here on the CBBC website.
You can generally find at least one of our eps, and also see exclusive mini-episodes, here on the CBBC website.
The Legend of Dick and Dom
We wrote episodes for all three series of this supremely silly sword-and-sorcery spoof, sending Princes Dick and Dom on adventures including a lovesick swamp monster, the biggest turnip in the world, and a man with the head of a badger that nearly blew the whole series budget. Lots of fun!
The Globe: Exploring Shakespeare
Yes, THE Globe Theatre. To celebrate the 450th birthday of the Bard, The Globe have put together an amazing interactive exploration of what goes into a great play. The live action script is by myself and Ciaran (and some hack called Bill), the animations and bonus features are other people's works of genius!
Watch and explore it here!
Watch and explore it here!
