No-one cares about your portfolio, Laurence. Nevertheless, here it is.
Last updated September 2009.
Scriptwriting
Television
Ketchup Girl
A young woman afflicted by a birthmark has to overcome severe agoraphobia to rescue her stepbrothers from their delinquent mother and her criminal boyfriend.
Eighteen year old Della ought to be out enjoying life but she’s locked up in a high-rise flat with her two young stepbrothers. When their mother suddenly returns from an extended holiday she takes them away leaving Della to rot, money and food running out. Social worker Dean throws her a lifeline and they discover that the boys are about to be taken out of the country. Her love for the boys overcomes her fear of public ridicule as she races to Heathrow to rescue them.
Pieces of Dad
13-year old Osh is on a quest to rebuild his Dad. Can he find all the pieces or will the scheming, avaricious Dr Karchov get them first?
Osh and his father Lapztt are humanoid robots from the planet Dzztrck. They were only planning to have a quick visit to Earth but an accidental run-in with a rogue satellite wrecked their Houseship and strew pieces of Lapztt across the country.
Fortunately Osh has self-confessed space geek Pollyanna and her big brother Toby on his side.
But was the clash with the satellite no accident at all? Is there a darker motive at work? What does Karchov’s boss Major Kelvin planning to do with Lapztt and Osh? And who or what is hiding on the crash-landed Houseship?
6-part 30min children’s television action/adventure drama.
The Camp
Follow the lives of seven young people as they work through their Community Order sentences halfway up a Welsh mountain. Red Planet 2008 Finalist. 8-part 60min television drama/comedy series.
Evil Queen Sally
Sally returns from business school to take over her late father’s business. His line of work? Evil Overlord. Life in the draughty ramparts of Castle Evil isn’t exactly the career arc that Sally was hoping for. Still, if the Forces of Good need crushing, they may as well be crushed properly. 30min sitcom.
The Kevin & Michael Show
30min sitcom/sketch show hybrid. Twentysomething brothers Kevin and Michael’s lives revolve around comics, superheros and movies. In their world there’s no dividing line between fantasy and reality. The two bleed into one another constantly. And messily.
Episodes 1 and 2 complete, outlines for several more episodes, sketches and mini-episodes complete.
Film
Yummy Mummy
One-off 90min comedy drama. Jacquie stumbles on an addictive recipe that’ll make her the nation’s favourite yummy mummy. But do her family feature in her new celebrity lifestyle?
So You’re Dead
What happens to your immortal soul after you die? Please take a seat while we review your life and you’ll find out shortly. 10min short film.
The Witchcat
Young apprentice Ashley’s gruesome discovery spells trouble for a team of builders working on an ancient cottage. 10min short film.
Baby
A bereaved mother is haunted by the cries of her baby while the strange couple next door cradle their own new arrival. 6min short film.
Fiction
Leaving the Underground
A man finds a kind of escape from the daily grind of commuting on the Underground.
Zero Sum
Revenge isn’t pretty. When all’s told, does it make any difference to anything?
The Invisible World
Everything we know, everything we are, everything we see: merely a image projected onto the surface of a kilo and a half of wet grey flesh. If the mind begins to fail, what then?
The Rise and Fall of The Rocketmen
1968. Four young Londoners begin the journey to rock stardom. They rise quickly as the hedonistic Seventies sweep in, but with triumph comes disaster.
Quale
The Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, turned the Republican Commonwealth into Europe’s new model government. As the continental monarchs looked on in envy, England became a rich, well-fed society. Charles II, exiled in The Hague, died at the hand of a cuckolded husband and there the royal line of Stuart ended. England closed in on itself, banning overseas trade and expelling foreigners. Coastal cities became forts bristling with seaward guns.
Gradually the State became an apparatus of terror, forcing the countrydwellers to work ever harder to fill the stomachs of the hungry cities. In 1799, 150 years after the first ever meeting of the English Council of State in 1649, the story begins.
