Shooting the Pilot

Shooting the Pilot

Fantom Films Limited

Six hit pilot scripts plus the one that got away, from the keyboard of LAURENCE MARKS and MAURICE GRAN.\nHolding the Fort\nShine On Harvey Moon\nThe New Statesman\nBirds of a Feather\nLove Hurts\nGoodnight Sweetheart\nand\nLady Ottoline Pierpoint\u2019s Guide to Intimate Behaviour for Gentlewomen\nLaurence Marks and Maurice Gran always wanted to be television comedy writers. perhaps because they grew up during what they consider to be the golden age of situation comedy.\nThey spent much of the 1970s failing to sell any of their first four sit-com attempts. Then in 1979 they managed to penetrate the office of Humphrey Barclay, the head of comedy at London Weekend Television. Amazingly, he liked their fifth sit-com idea enough to commission the script that became Holding the Fort, the first pilot in this book.\nBetween that day in spring 1979, and summer 1993, Marks and Gran went on to create a dozen original television comedies, winning two British Academy awards and an International .

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