Sally Martin
Producer
Key Producer Credits
SO AWKWARD
Channel X North for CBBC / ABC
6 series x 28’ episodes (77 episodes)
Created by Julie Bower and written by a team of 8 writers
Broadcast Award Winner 2016 – Best Children’s Programme
BAFTA Nominee 2016 – Best Children’s Comedy
RTS North West Awards Nominee 2017 – Best Comedy
BAFTA Nominee 2017 – Best Children’s Comedy
British Screenwriters' Awards Nominee 2018 - Best Children's Television
BAFTA Winner 2018 - Best Children's Comedy
Press:
It’s really funny, smart and witty, with a real spark to it. The themes and characters might be aimed squarely at the target CBBC audience, but the smart and sophisticated tone helped to notch it up a level.
BROADCAST; Award Winner review
As Julie Bower's comedy about three smart, yet socially clumsy teens swings into season three, Lily worries that her school grades might suffer as a result of having a new boyfriend. .. A fourth series has already been commissioned, a measure of this show's mix of warmth, savvy and light surrealism.
THE GUARDIAN
So Awkward is the best show ever! I am going to cry when the series ends:(
CBBC WEBSITE; Young Viewer Comment
OFFICIALLY SPECIAL
Channel X for Sky Living ‘Love Matters’ season
30’ One-off rom com
Written by Bede Blake
Starring Katherine Parkinson, Emma Pierson, Steve Edge, Ian Smith
Press:
Officially Special was special. Written by Bede Blake, it starred Katherine Parkinson as an adjudicator at a simulacrum of Guinness World Records. The meta-joke was that her work life recorded the exceptional, while her private life was below average. What was outstanding was the dialogue. Her boyfriend, whose job was to carry a placard with ‘INTERNET’ and an arrow on it, proposed to her while taking her up the London eye, which as she said, was not an euphemism. She prevaricated. “Is it because I am a sign”, he asked. No, no. “I know you are just doing that while you break into…poetry”. Gimme more.
THE TIMES
THE LAST CHANCERS
angel eye media for Channel 4
5 x 30’ series, commissioned from a broadcast pilot
Written by Anthony MacMurray & Adam Buxton
Starring Adam Buxton, Kevin Bishop, Steve John Shepherd, Emma Pierson
Press:
Very well observed and will strike a chord with anyone who has done a toilet tour in a Transit van.
THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Less try-hard and more caring than most new comedy.
THE GUARDIAN
This is much funnier than a sitcom about an amateur rock band has a right to be….it’s fun and well-observed and you’ll find yourself caring about the loserish characters. This idea has (as ZZ Top might say) got legs.
THE RADIO TIMES
The Last Chancers is a realistic, ‘the kids are alright’ drama that will ignite the passions of rock stars of all ages.
THE OBSERVER
Full of beautifully observed situations and characters, it’s a joy from start to finish.
HEAT
D.O.A
Channel X for BBC Three
Written by Roger Beckett & Gary Martin
Starring Kris Marshall, Karen Turner, Cavan Clerkin, Catherine Shepherd, Robert Wilfort, Kevin Eldon
Press:
…a dark comedy pilot that manages to juggle on-screen projectile vomiting with washed-out, Getting On-style camerawork and wry gags about alligators as pets. At points it's a little too Psychoville, but with Kevin Eldon and Karen Taylor on board, it really should be turned into a full series.
THE GUARDIAN
Meet the Magoons
IWC for Channel 4
Written by Hardeep Singh Kohli
Starring Hardeep Singh Kohli, Nitin Ganatra, Paul Sharma, Sanjeev Kohli
Press:
There's something to be said for laddish behaviour when you see it celebrated in this supremely daft yet appealing comedy. It's about four young Asian cousins who work at a Glasgow curry house and have an amusing ability to wind each other up relentlessly while at the same time getting into silly scrapes. It's rather like watching the misadventures of a boisterous family that never stops bickering.
THE GUARDIAN
FULL PRODUCER CV:
So Awkward
Channel X North for CBBC / ABC
6 series x 28’ (77 episodes)
Officially Special
Channel X for Sky Living
30 mins rom com
The Johnny & Inel Show
Princess Productions for CBBC
13 x 28’ series 1
D.O.A
Channel K for BBC3
30 mins broadcast pilot
Hung Out
Channel K for C4
30 mins for C4 Comedy Lab
Living With Two People You Like Individually . . . But Not As A Couple
Channel K for BBC3
30 mins broadcast pilot studio sitcom
Meet the Magoons
IWC Media for C4
6 x 30 mins narrative comedy
The Last Chancers
angel eye for C4
6 x 30 mins narrative comedy
The Last Chancers
angel eye for C4
30 mins Comedy Lab
Will Durst Live
angel eye for BBC4
1 hour entertainment special
Edinburgh or Bust 2001
angel eye for C4
6 x 30 mins factual entertainment following comedians through the Edinburgh Fringe
Stand Up Perrier 2001
angel eye for C4
1 hour entertainment special surrounding London performances of Perrier Winners
Edinburgh or Bust 2000
angel eye for C4
6 x 30 mins factual entertainment following comedians through the Edinburgh Fringe
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