Writing Comedy For Television

Brian Cooke, creator of the popular 'Keep It In The Family' series and co-writer of such series as 'Father Dear Father', 'Man About The House','Robin's Nest' and 'George And Mildred', says that the only way a new writer can beak into the lucrative television writing market is to demonstrate a command of the craft. You can do that by writing a professional script that needs a minimum of lateration to go straight on to the air. This book, written from Brian Cooke's long experience, will tell you how you can write that script. It is a practical, step-by-step manual about how and what to write. It contains many examples from the scripts of top-rated situation comedy and sketch shows. It will show you how to construct a story line for a series, how to lay out a quickie or a sketch, who to send your efforts to, how much you'll be paid and how a television comedy is put together.