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For the past 5 years Natalie has been firmly ensconced
in the sitcom world, playing one of the lead roles, Donna, in Two Pints
of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. Her TV career started aged 3, singing
top 100 hit 'Chick Chick Chicken' on Top of the Pops; followed by years
of ads and modelling, before landing the role of Carol in Hollyoaks. She
then graduated into the heady world of MTV, where she interviewed Britney
and snogged Huey from The Fun Loving Criminals! With her comedy acting
pedigree, she’ll be able to spot a killer line or two.
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As Comedy Editor for Talkback Thames,
Ash Atalla is a successful television producer with a string of hits and
awards under his belt; his most well known producer credit is for The
Office. However, he didn't start at such a dizzy height: his first job
in the BBC was as an unpaid researcher for Watchdog. Nice.
He sees sitcom as the most difficult of TV genres, particularly trying
to make comedy relevant to people's everyday lives. His top tip? It's
better to have no joke than a crap one.
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Adam's career began on a show that took
the world by storm: team writer on the, then, relatively unknown, Friends.
He then moved from writer to producer, before finally ending up as Executive
Producer. He is a great fan of the American team-writing process on sitcom,
and while he is envious of the control British writers have over their
sitcoms, he knows American writers get paid an awful, awful lot more!
So you know where to head if you win this competition.
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