
- 194 pages
- English
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Creativity in the British Television Comedy Industry
About this book
What is it like to make television comedy? How do writers get their ideas made, and how do commissioners and producers decide what to make? How do members of the comedy industry work with large broadcasters and production companies, and what does it mean to be creative – and stay creative?
Drawing on interviews with many key writers such as Sam Bain, Paul Doolan, Graham Linehan, David Mitchell, Simon Nye and Sue Teddern, producers including Ash Atalla, Lisa Clark, Michelle Farr, Ali McPhail, Jon Plowman and Adam Tandy, and commissioners, the BBC's Shane Allen, Channel 4's Nerys Evans and Sky's Lucy Lumsden, Creativity in the British Television Comedy Industry explores the creative processes that lead to successful programme-making.
With detailed discussion of the processes by which series such as People Just Do Nothing and After Hours came to our screens, this book examines how members of the comedy industry maintain careers, manage failure, develop their craft, and stay creative.
Creativity in the British Television Comedy Industry is essential reading for students and researchers with an interest in comedy studies, television production, and the creative/media industries.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 What is creativity?
- 2 The UK television comedy industry
- 3 Creativity and new writers
- 4 Creativity and established writers
- 5 Creativity and established programmes
- 6 Creativity and failure
- 7 So, what is creativity?
- Appendix: methodology
- References
- Index