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From BBC Regards Graeme. Dear Course Leader, Following on from the BBC Three short story writing competition, End of Story, we are running a new challenge in March 2005. The competition is called The Last Laugh and is a sitcom-writing challenge. 8 well-known sitcom writers have written the first 20 minutes of an original half-hour sitcom; all our entrants have to do is write the final 10 minutes and have the last laugh! The writers are: Marks & Gran - Birds of a Feather, The New Statesman Paul Mayhew Archer - My Hero, The Vicar of Dibley Bain & Armstrong - Peep Show Carla Lane - Bread, Butterflies Jonathan Harvey - Gimme Gimme Gimme Trix Worrell - Desmonds, Porkpie Ian Pattison - Rab C Nesbitt Brown & Hendrie - My Family As with End of Story we will be publishing a free book which contains the beginnings of all 8 of the scripts to be given away with the launch of the show. This book will be available in participating book shops, comedy clubs, libraries and hopefully, writing courses. If you would like your course to be involved and to have copies of the book to give away, or loan to people, then please contact me by 15th January 2005 to order them (details below). We need to know: * How many people are in your writing course and how many books you would like? * The details of where to send the books, what quantities are required and who to address them to. The deadline for ordering books is 15th January 2005, due to the scale of the operation we cannot guarantee that any orders received after this date can be met. Books will be sent out in March 2005 to arrive the week before the programme launches, the planned date for this is 20th March 2005 but is subject to change. The books will be embargoed until the day after the launch show is broadcast and this will be printed clearly on the package - we would greatly appreciate your cooperation in this matter. Kind Regards, Esther Coleman - Hawkins Project Manager, The Last Laugh Contact details for ordering books: Phone: 0141 338 3432 e-mail: [log in to unmask] Mail: Rm 3196, BBC BH, Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow, G12 8DG If there's anythign else I can tell you please let me know. Thanks Esther Esther Coleman - Hawkins Project Manager BBC 3 - End of Story & The Last Laugh Tel: 0141 338 3432 Mob: 07786 702401 e-mail: [log in to unmask] www.bbc.co.uk/endofstory -- Professor Graeme Harper, Head, School of Creative Arts, Film and Media, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/scafm [log in to unmask] Ph: 00 44 23 92842201 Join the Top Ten - See our School website for Details. Visit: http://www.brookebiaz.co.uk