My Favourite 100 TV Moments

My fave 100 TV moments.

I put them here.

I've not finished the list yet, but here they are. Absolutely in no particular order whatsoever...


1 Control Rooms and production galleries


2 The Best Steadicam Shot In The World Ever


3 Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em


4 The Best Pitch Invasion Ever?


5 The Best Awards Acceptance Speech Ever?


6 Pingu Needs A Wee


7 When ITV Regions Ruled The World (The ITV Region Start Up Theme Tune)


8 This Is The BBC

9 Favourite Standup Comedian who is no longer with us

10 The Best Action Scene Ever, Ever, Ever

11 Pipkins

12 My favourite clip about writing TV sitcoms

13 Engelbert Humperdinck on the BBC VT Xmas tape 1979

14 LE TOUR DE FRANCE

15 Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation



16 The Adverts

17 Space Ghost, Coast to Coast

18 Mystery Science Theater 3000

19 The Cinema Ads

20 TIWSAS

21 Seventies TV Music Performances

#22 THE GOOD WIFE

#23 When TV News sucks

#24 Alan Johnston Vigil

#25 Fave sketch show sketches


#26 Late Night with David Letterman


#27 Chopper Squad


#28 CHiPs


#29 The BBC Grandstand Fight


#30 Rainbow


#30 Rainbow


#31 The Theme From Juliet Bravo


#32 Any and every documentary about James Hunt




Not yet placed...
Best Series Opening Ever
Gordon Brown leaving Downing Street technocrane shot
Thunderbirds
State Of Play
Arrested Development
Father Ted
Thames Television
The Crossroads Closing Titles Sequence
Capital City
Saturday Live
The Aaron Spelling Story
Mork and Mindy, the unauthorized story

Podcast Of The Week... Jeff Goldsmith talks to Michael Arndt about writing Toy Story 3

Huge fan of @yogoldsmith Creative Screenwriting Magazine's screenwriting podcasts here:
http://creativescreenwritingmagazine.blogspot.com/

This mp3 is awesome - screenwriter on TOY STORY 3 talking about how they break stories at Pixar, and detail on how Toy Story 3 was written...

CLICK HERE FOR LINK!

Hanging Out With The Boss

"The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievement but rather with the things we do for the people we love and esteem, and whose respect we need."

Walt Disney


"What camera we on?"

Me

Take Your Daughter To Work Day, on the RDA...

Came across this fragment of The RDA with John Gordillo, from April 2000...



The RDA
created by John Gordillo & Neil Mossey


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TV Writers Day - Leicester Comedy Festival 2010

Appearing this Saturday on the panel at the TV Writers Day at DMU.

Eminent TV writers are to share their expertise and career advice at a public event at De Montfort University later this month during Leicester Comedy Festival.

The event consists of keynote speeches along with question and answer panels hosted by DMU’s MA Television Scriptwriting team.

More details here:-
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/news_events/news/current/100215_2_TV_Scriptwriting_day.jsp


All my Comedy links here

sock sucker

New swears for pre-watershed comedy scripts come from odd places.
Like ESPN Argentina.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jan/21/carlos-tevez-gary-neville-boot-licker


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Writing for standup for radio

Writing for/ at/ with/ stand-up comedian John Gordillo and his appearance last week on the Radio 4 behemoth, the News Quiz.

The process still looks pretty much like this, but without the pictures.

What we came up with sounds a bit like this.






Direct link here


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This year, in development

The upside with working on development projects is the variety of the blank page, and the chance to mould material from scratch.

The downside? Can't even mention who I'm working for, let alone on what.

Proud to plug, though, currently in the presence of like-minded souls in the Talkback Thames comedy department, and the only way I can pretty up this post is with this 2010 updated version of the old Thames TV logo.
(from roll the dice on the Londonist blog)

Freefonix - Prepsie Idol - one more time

Just seen the episode of Freefonix which I wrote with Rob Venes, PREPSIE IDOL, gets another airing tomorrow on CBBC.

from www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009gcz1

Children's animation about a teenage band that discover a magic note, much to the chagrin of the record companies.

While Mya tries to figure out a way to sell Fizzy Blast, an overly carbonated ComaCo soft drink, Vox announces he's detected a 13th note prodigy in Los Bosmos. Seeing a way to kill two birds with one stone, Mya holds a viddycast prepsie music contest designed to draw out the prodigy.

Freez alone gets picked to perform, while BB and Mo track down Coda, the prodigy. BB empathizes with Coda's desire to win the contest, but she convinces him not to play 13th note. As Coda and Freefonix get away, the Mantis goes after them. A sound clash ensues in which Coda helps our heroes defeat Kurtz, Lady Lux and Hitt.

All my Freefonix links here
http://neilmossey.blogspot.com/search/label/Freefonix

Working on a sketch show...

Follow up to "what writing with a standup actually looks like".