Sitcom Trials Grand Final video

At long last, after an unbelievable 18 hours trying to upload it (long story, something to do with changes at YouTube) is the video diary from the Grand Final of The Sitcom Trials. Features interviews with all the casts, clips from all the sitcoms in the final, and the all-important results.



Congratulations to all the writers, directors, actors and judges who've made this, the 10th Anniversary Season of The Sitcom Trials, such a success.

James Parker deserves the greatest praise for his production of this season. The directors he found to work with have done marvellous work, the casts have been outstanding, and the end result on stage in every single Heat, Semi Final and of course the Final was outstanding. It is, without a doubt, the best and most consistent season of Sitcom Trials shows that I have seen in the ten years I've been involved.

The nature of producing this show is that the first thing any critic will notice is things that go wrong, and it's so much harder to notice when things are just running smoothly. So it is to James's credit that there were no glitches, no missing casts, no under-prepared productions, in fact the only thing I'd criticise was some of my compering which, thankfully, the Socks spared us from in the Final. Oh and the occasional error in the weekly programme, which was also my doing. I have no doubt James had many frantic moments behind the scenes, but he kept those all well and truly hidden so neither I nor the audience ever became aware of them.

Paul Gannon deserves special thanks too, for being Minister Without Portfolio/ASM and doing so much of the work on the day of every show that I am overwhelmed with guilt that he never got mentioned in the programme.

I may write more of my thoughts on the season, but for the moment I'd be much more interested in hearing yours. As a participant or a spectator, what did anyone think of this season of The Sitcom Trials? (And should we do it again?)

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Monday evening

Sitcom Trials final poster

The poster for the final of The Sitcom Trials



It says Tonight, obviously it means tomorrow night. See you there.

Sitcom Trials judges words of wisdom

Some of the judges from 2009's Sitcom Trials http://sitcomtrials.co.uk give their tips on writing comedy. Includes David (TV Burp) Quantick, Iain (Inbetweeners) Morris, Carrie (News Quiz) Quinlan, Marc (How Not To Write A Sitcom) Blake, Richard (Whose Line..?) Vranch, Nev (Dead Ringers) Fountain and Daniel (also TV Burp) Maier.



Judges that got away include Laura (School Of Comedy) Lawson and Roland (Land Girls) Moore, who appear in the videos from the show but whose clips I lost, and Tom Price, Wanda Opalinska and Bill Dare all of whom I interviewed having pressed pause instead of record.

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As the Socks sing, in their Facebook song


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Socks new video, plugging Sitcom Trials appearance

The Socks first video filmed in their "studio" for over a month, plugging their appearance next week hosting the final of The Sitcom Trials. Worth a glance.



The Sitcom Trials 10th Anniversary Season Grand Final, hosted by the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, is at the Leicester Square Theatre on Tuesday December 1st 2009, 7.30pm. Tickets at: http://bit.ly/1MLzMt

Sitcom Trials semi final 2 video online

The video from the second Sitcom Trials semi final is online below. It features interviews with judges Daniel (TV Burp) Maier, Carrie (News Quiz) Quinlan, and Richard (Comedy Store Players) Vranch, plus clips from all the competing sitcoms and the results of who is going through to next week's final (which will be presented by the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre)