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Marc Blakewill and James Harris are a versatile comedy writing partnership with half-a-dozen narrative projects currently in development. They also have three sketch shows and a panel game format in development, and are writing on the second series of “The Charlotte Church Show”. Previous TV work includes “2DTV” (ITV), “The 11 O'Clock Show” (C4), “The Sitcom Trials” (ITV), “Lipsmackin'” (BBC) and writing caustic put-downs for Anne Robinson on “The Weakest Link” (BBC). They have also written topical satire for BBC Radio 2, Radio 4 and Radio Five Live.

David Croft OBE needs little introduction as co-writer and producer of "Dad's Army", "Hi De Hi", "It Ain't Half Hot Mum" and "You Rang M'Lord" with Jimmy Perry and "Are You Being Served?", "'Allo, 'Allo" and "Grace and Favour" with Jeremy Lloyd. His last TV project that he wrote and produced was in 1997, "Oh, Dr Beeching". He has continued to be busy contributing to Dad's Army books and indeed, has just completed his autobiography, “You Have Been Watching…” (BBC Worldwide).

Dominic English is a writer/producer with over twelve years of experience working in British television. As the series producer and script editor for the 11 O'Clock Show, Dom was instrumental in launching the careers of Ricky Gervais, Sacha Baron Cohen, Mackenzie Crook and Daisy Donovan among others. He was Head of Entertainment and comedy at Endemol UK but left to concentrate on comedy and writing. He was Creative Executive of The Charlotte Church Show, where he coached the Welsh singer to hone her comedic skills. Charlotte won a British Comedy Award in 2006 and describes Dom in her latest autobiography as ‘The funniest man I’ve ever met.’ Dom is currently developing a number of sit-coms with other writers.

Dom works as a gag writer with credits on TV shows including Eight Out of Ten Cats and The Big Fat Quiz of the Year for Channel 4, and Would I Lie To You? And Commercial Breakdown for BBC 1. He also regularly writes for comedians Jimmy Carr and Frankie Boyle. His producing credits include, as Executive Producer, Fear Factor, Spy TV, The Cowboy Trap, Eight Out of Ten Cats and Fame Academy.

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Robert Katz most recently produced Endemol’s “FAQ U” and has written with Christopher Morris and for Ali G and Borat.

Andrew Lynford and Tim Ward are two actors who write comedy. They currently have a pilot for the BBC in production called “Dirty Dirty Caravan” and they also worked with Bob Mortimer and Lisa Clark at Pett Productions on the BBC comedy sketch show “Titty Titty Bang Bang”. They have also written separately on other projects, including Tim's association with “Smack the Pony” and Andrew has written for the theatre; his 1970's musical “Diva Fever – The Decade that Taste Forgot” toured the provinces in 2005.

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Mark O’Connell is a comedy writer, specialising in narrative and sketch comedy. He has written for “Raging” (BBC3 / BBC Scotland) and The Comedy Unit’s “Rough Cuts”, “Gags To Go” and “Blowout” – a Channel Four / Comedy Lab pilot which recently won the Scottish BAFTA for Best Comedy. Mark has written two feature comedies (‘Doggy Style’ and ‘Saddle Tramps’) and has a trio of sitcoms in development (including “Curtains”, a Stephen Marsh / Whistling Thorn Films co-production with Paul Mendelson).

Mark co-wrote gay brothel sitcom “Love For Sale” with Jonathan Harvey. Part of BBC3’s The Last Laugh strand for new sitcom writers, Mark’s work on the comedy was acknowledged by Lucy Lumsden as “one of the best and certainly the most colourful”. Mark is currently working with producers Jon Plowman and Justin Davies as a BBC Comedy Writing Apprentice on BBC2’s “Beautiful People”, written by Jonathan Harvey.

Mark has also won the The Jerwood Film Prize (“Skedaddle”, Channel Five), the Lloyds Bank Film Challenge (“Carrying Dad”, Channel 4) and the gushing praise of Time Out (“O’Connell shapes his characters with a knowing humour that more seasoned writers have lost over the years”).

Mark Oswin and James Griffiths have recently completed an episode of "Trexx N Flipside" for BBC3. Writing together they have also written "Skin Deep", a comedy lab sitcom for Channel 4 starring Oram and Meeten; and "Facing Up" for ITV/Celador starring John Thomson, Mark Heap, and Samantha Janus. Other credits include "The Eleven O'Clock Show"; "Top of the Pops Plus"; "Ri:se"; "Survival" (script edit); "Comedy Nation"; and various pieces for the Paramount Comedy Channel. They wrote, voiced, animated and produced a series of topical 1 minute cartoons broadcast on Channel 4, and have also produced comedy animation for "Dead Ringers". Writing on his own, Mark has recently filmed "Placebo", a pilot for BBC3 starring Maxine Peake, Katy Brand, and Nick Mohammed.

Jimmy Perry's career, like David Croft's, is nearly impossible to summarise. Suffice it to say that their programmes' enduring appeal can be witnessed in the ratings that "Dad's Army" still commands - indeed, the 'lost' episodes which recently aired over the Christmas period were the highest rated BBC2 programmes! His Memoirs, “A Stupid Boy” are published by Century.

Shaun Pye is an comedy writer, producer and actor. He has written dozens of highly successful TV shows including the award winning animation “Monkey Dust”, the BAFTA winning “Friday Night with Jonathan Ross”, “Never Mind the Buzzcocks”, “They Think It's All Over” and the “British Comedy Awards”. He recently wrote and produced “Respectable” - a sitcom for Channel Five and also produced “It's Only TV, But I Like It”. In 2005 he made his acting debut as the loathsome ‘Greg’ in “Extras”.

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Aiden Spackman is a versatile and exciting, up and coming writer who already has many big name shows to his credit. He helped develop Channel 4’s, “8 Out of 10 Cats”, and is now one of the show’s main writers, contributing material for everyone from Joan Rivers to David Walliams. He also helped create and write on Angus Deayton's new show, “Unbelievable”, as well as joke writing on the “Charlotte Church Show” and “Adam and Joe Go Tokyo”. He recently contributed to the new sketch show, “Rush Hour” on BBC 3 and has script written for entertainment shows such as “I'm a Celebrity…”, “Hell's Kitchen”, T4 and “The Match”. There are high hopes for Aiden's first sitcom to make it to our screens in the not too distant future… A dependable and likeable writer, comedy is Aiden’s forte but he is an asset to any genre of production.

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Tim Ward and Andrew Lynford are two actors who write comedy. They currently have a pilot for the BBC in production called “Dirty Dirty Caravan” and are also working with Bob Mortimer and Lisa Clark at Pett Productions on new ideas for the next series of the BBC comedy sketch show “Titty Titty Bang Bang”. Their comedy genius was discovered by Stuart Murphy, ex-controller of BBC3.

They have also written separately on other projects, including Tim's association with “Smack the Pony” and Andrew has written for the theatre - his 1970's musical, “Diva Fever – The Decade That Taste Forgot” toured the provinces last year.

As actors, Tim recently appeared in “Footballer’s Wives” and sang about sperm in Monty Python's movie “The Meaning of Life”, and Andrew is best remembered as ‘Simon’, Tiffany's miserable gay brother in “Eastenders”.