Playwrights' BBC sitcom commission
Village comedy scripts ordered
Playwrights Ed Waugh and Trevor Wood have been commissioned to write a BBC One sitcom set in a sleepy County Durham hamlet.Their pilot script for Silver Acres has been given a read-through at the corporation, and commissioners have now asked for a second episode.
The plot revolves around a former trade unionist moving to the sleepy conservative village, to the dismay of its self-appointed guardians. Other character include a wealthy womanizer, a man-child who still lives with his domineering mother, and an insane survivalist and techno-wizard.
Waugh and Wood have written a number of comedy stage plays, and their latest, Maggie’s End, opens at London’s Shaw Theatre from April 7.
The dark comedy – timed to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the miners strike – begins, controversially, with the death of Margaret Thatcher.
Published: 6 Mar 2009
