Pozzitive – Radio Comedy Script Competition

Pozzitive Television is introducing a new script competition for radio comedy writers, with a view to development. Check out the brief below:

Pozzitive is one of the leading independent comedy producers – our TV shows include Victoria Wood’s dinnerladies and Steve Coogan’s Paul & Pauline Calf Video Diaries and Coogan’s Run, and our audio includes Cabin Pressure, Shush!, Agendum, Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones!, Jack & Millie, Tom Neenan’s The Hauntening, Marcus Brigstocke’s The Brig Society and Giles Wemmbley-Hogg, Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation, The 99p Challenge, Armando Iannucci’s Charm Offensive, the list goes on…

… and then stops. So we need new stars, new scripts, new shows. That’s where you come in.

You see normally we biff off to Edinburgh and see all your shows and then run around excitedly to talk about developing stuff for naming no names but eg Radio 4. But this year we literally couldn’t. So we’ve decided to do this instead…

FUNNYDOTCOMP is a competition where we select four radio scripts for more development. This will include –

– a detailed script-editing session by multi-award-winning producer/director David Tyler leading to –
– a fully-rehearsed table read or mic’d-up performance, by a cast of professional actors (or your own team if it’s a writer/performer-led script) …
…- with a possible view to further development by Pozzitive and a submission to audio broadcasters

You can be a single writer, a team, an existing act, a writer/performer combo or just a devilishly-clever piece of text-generating software. If you have representation, you can submit it through your agent. The only criterion is that is must be a 30m audio comedy script that might reasonably be broadcast and form the nucleus of a series. For more information, visit www.funnydotcomp.com

Submissions open on November 10th and close on January 10th