A world without sex, a rubbish support group, the invisible woman making breakfast in her underwear – just 3 of the scenarios featured in the unfinished or rejected early work from the BBC comedy supremo Bill Dare.
Cast: Toby Longworth, Rachel Atkins, Beth Chalmers, Chris Pavlo, Nigel Pilkington and Keith Wickham.
OFFCUTS:
- 02’45’’ – We Could Be Heroes; pilot for a TV or radio sitcom, 2012
- 09’17” – letter written to the Evening Standard newspaper, 1972
- 14’07’’ – The World’s Longest Suicide Note; first chapter of his unpublished novel, 1996
- 20’45’’ – Alas Smith and Jones; sketch for their TV sketch show, 1986
- 27’49’’ – Nina Conti Really Is On The Radio; radio pilot, 2012
- 32’43’’ – Unforgettable; format document for a radio game show, 2015
- 36’52’’ – Sexless; extract from a novel, 2018
- 42’42’’ – Support; pilot script for a TV sitcom, 2014
Bill is a renowned BBC radio and TV comedy writer and producer. For TV he created shows such as The Mary Whitehouse Experience, Dead Ringers, The Late Edition With Marcus Brigstocke, and I’ve Never Seen Star Wars. And radio shows he created include The Now Show, The Motion Show and – where also lead writer – Life Death And Sex With Mike And Sue, The Big Town All Stars, Les Kelly’s Britain, Brian Gulliver’s Travels and The Secret World (Gold Award, Best Comedy, 2014 Radio Academy Awards).
He has produced TV series such as Spitting Image (8 series), Loose Talk, the sitcom Mr Charity for BBC2 and the comedy/drama Twisted Tales for BBC3. He wrote the film You’re Breaking Up, broadcast on BBC2. Alongside his television and radio work, Bill has written two plays performed at the Edinburgh Festival; as well as co-writing Nina Conti’s five-star show, Talk To The Hand, and producing the recent Dead Ringers Live. He has three published novels – Natural Selection, Brian Gulliver’s Travels, and his latest: The Billion Pound Lie which was published last year.
More about Bill Dare:
- Twitter: @bill_dare
- Website: BBC’s Dead Ringers
