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The Sitcom Mission

The aim of The Sitcom Mission is to provide a platform for new comedy writing. If you want to write TV drama there are plenty of opportunities on the fringe to cut your teeth. Where do you go if you want to perfect your sitcom writing skills?

With an emphasis on script development, The Sitcom Mission is looking for 15-minute, stageable sitcom scripts. The best of them will be workshopped with actors and directors, and the top 16 will go through to a knock-out contest in front of a public audience and showcased for the industry at a central London venue in Spring 2010, with industry judges deciding which sitcoms will go through to the Grand Final.

Deadline: 31 December 2009

To find out more and enter, visit The Sitcom Mission website.

 

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