College of Comedy success with The Inn Mates
The BBC College of Comedy scheme for training the comedy writers of the future launched in 2008, attracting support from leading writers including Armando Iannucci, Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, Simon Nye, Jeremy Dyson, Susan Nickson and Hugo Blick.
Now BBC Three has commissioned The Inn Mates, the first pilot to be developed through the scheme. Written by Manchester-based writer and comedian John Warburton, the script focuses on a group of people, some friends and some strangers, who eat Sunday lunch at The King's Ransom.
With the pub as a central location, the show also goes out and about to follow the lives of the regulars, who include a happily married couple; an unhappily married couple; a son trying to forge a relationship with his sperm donor dad; a 'free and easy' young woman in search of true love; two old women who haunt the smoking shelter; and a pair of community support officers whose dramatic fantasies will never be matched by reality.
John said, "I am incredibly chuffed the BBC have decided to pilot this. Over the last 20 years I have spent a great deal of time drinking in pubs in the name of research and this means I can now claim the whole lot back against tax. The College of Comedy is a superlative scheme, it has been invaluable to me as a writer in terms of learning and support".
Congratulations John!
Read more about the development of The Inn Mates in a post by Creative Head of the BBC College of Comedy Micheal Jacob over on the Writersroom blog.
Now BBC Three has commissioned The Inn Mates, the first pilot to be developed through the scheme. Written by Manchester-based writer and comedian John Warburton, the script focuses on a group of people, some friends and some strangers, who eat Sunday lunch at The King's Ransom.
With the pub as a central location, the show also goes out and about to follow the lives of the regulars, who include a happily married couple; an unhappily married couple; a son trying to forge a relationship with his sperm donor dad; a 'free and easy' young woman in search of true love; two old women who haunt the smoking shelter; and a pair of community support officers whose dramatic fantasies will never be matched by reality.
John said, "I am incredibly chuffed the BBC have decided to pilot this. Over the last 20 years I have spent a great deal of time drinking in pubs in the name of research and this means I can now claim the whole lot back against tax. The College of Comedy is a superlative scheme, it has been invaluable to me as a writer in terms of learning and support".
Congratulations John!
Read more about the development of The Inn Mates in a post by Creative Head of the BBC College of Comedy Micheal Jacob over on the Writersroom blog.
Comment number 1.
At 22:11 9th Aug 2010, jayney13 wrote:Very funny, fantastic, great cast, loved it, hope to see it again.
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At 18:09 10th Aug 2010, mat wrote:Funny & fresh, something a bit different to the mainstream BBC comedy - keep it up BBC3. A full series please!
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