Selected Script Portfolio
Below you’ll find a selection of Tom’s scripted work. He specialises in producing character-led projects that feature high gag rates and his own “unique brand of intelligent silliness”. Please get in touch if you’re interested in working with him or would simply like to read more!
Ley People
Myths, monsters and magic mushrooms have only one thing in common… bullsh*t… or so eternal sceptic Ellis would have you believe. But when his wife is abducted by a minotaur, Ellis finds these beliefs called into question.
Format(s): Television, Radio (30 minutes)
Genre: Situation Comedy
Episodes: 6
Staged Readthrough: Philip Jackson, Shobna Gulati, Rachel Atkins, Gordon Kennedy
Previous Development: ABsoLuTeLy Productions (BBC Radio 4)
Accolades:
BlueCat Screenplay Competition (Pilots) – Semi-Finalist
Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards – Semi-Finalist
Screencraft Comedy Competition – Quarter Finalist
Coverfly – Top 9% of Discoverable Projects
“Hilarious!”
– Gordon Kennedy, ABsoLuTeLy Productions
“Ley People is a hilarious pilot about four friends that are in the hunt of a Minotaur, an absurd premise that is very self-aware and with a great dynamic between the characters that brings conflict from beginning to end.”
– BlueCat Screenplay Competition
In House
It’s press night at the Theatre Royal and tactless manager Peter Pratt is filming a piece for the marketing team. However, when his hard-nosed colleague, Lesley, reports a spate of lavatorial vandalism, the evening rapidly descends into chaos…
Format(s): Television (30 minutes)
Genre: Situation Comedy
Episodes: 6
Previous Development: MOTIF Pictures (ITV Studios)
“In House is very funny. Packed with jokes, an ensemble of eccentric characters, and… a diamanté-encrusted eye patch. It’s great fun following the blissfully ignorant and self-righteous theatre manager, Peter, as he attempts to navigate opening night.“
– James Boughen, Development Producer, Writer
Femme Fatalities
When her undertaker uncle passes away following a ludicrous accident, West End-wannabe Evie begrudgingly inherits the family business. Unfortunately, the place comes packaged with mountains of debt and a reputation for taking in corpses no one else wants…
Format(s): Television (30 minutes)
Genre: Situation Comedy
Episodes: 6
Previous Development: None
“Hilarious and heartfelt…”
– Me, The Front Room Sofa
A Mockery of Crockery
In 1880s London, following a disastrous attempt to steal a priceless Ming Dynasty vase, self-proclaimed ‘master thief’ Horace Cleverley and his bumbling sidekick, Clarence Layback, find themselves embroiled in a Scotland Yard-led sting operation designed to capture one of London’s most elusive criminal masterminds, Lord Thomas Thornsby.
Format(s): Stage, Screen, Radio (full-length)
Genre: Comedy, Farce
Episodes: Sequential stories, An Impressionable Undergarment, An Equestrian Thespian
Previous Development: ABsoLuTeLy Productions (BBC Radio 4)
“A really fun read – Horace and Clarence are a great comedy duo.“
– Will Tennant, The Imaginarium Studios
.. “Naturally, with the great many scripts Baby Cow receive, there is more often than not a disappointment in the material in terms of comedy. But reading Tom’s script ‘A Mockery of Crockery’ it was clear from the first few pages that he has a comic flair, a sharp wit and the ability to create, craft and weave jokes regularly through the scenes – both in dialogue and action…”
– Ted Dowd, Baby Cow Productions
St. Michael’s Minutes
Ah, the parish council. A bastion of Christian charity… but in a community where everyone’s a pillar, how do you stand out from the crowd? St Michael’s Minutes grants unprecedented access to the outrageous recordings of this tumultuous parish council’s meetings as its members backstab, bribe and… bake cakes in a bid to become the community’s next Archbeacon of Benevolence.
Format(s): Audio (30 minutes)
Genre: Situation Comedy
Episodes: 6
Previous Development: None
“Holy inappropriate!”
– God
Liv From Planet Earth
Fresh off the back of her BTEC in Drama and Natural Sciences (apparently that’s a thing now), former TikTok-famous climate-sceptic, Liv, is desperate to make amends during her internship at hit eco-news site ‘Rapanewsies’. Why the change of heart? Something about Greta Thunberg and her Granny’s flooded kitchen.
Thing is, all her new colleagues want to do is expose her as the climate-sceptic she was… so, from climate activists and climate deniers to eco-undertakers and… bamboo tyres (I thank you), this entirely scripted six-part series of imaginary vox-poppin’ remotes sees Liv sent to report on the most eco-weird and wonderful people in the UK.
Format(s): Audio (15 minutes)
Genre: Situation/Podcast Comedy
Episodes: 6
Previous Development: ABsoLuTeLy Productions (BBC Radio 4)
“Review pending review.”
Well Hung
Set in the 1880s and based noosely on real-life Victorian executioner and capital punishment abolitionist, James Berry, Well Hung follows the world’s most apologetic hangman and his squeamish apprentice, Molly, as they struggle to reconcile guilt with duty… and keep their lunch down.
Format(s): Audio (15 minutes)
Genre: Comedy
Episodes: 6
Previous Development: ABsoLuTeLy Productions (BBC Radio 4)
“I think he’s compensating for something…”
– Anonymous
Essential Medicine
Two siblings are horrified to discover that their granddad’s blood pressure medicine might not be what it seems.
Format(s): Screen Short (10 minutes)
Genre: Comedy
Episodes: 1
Previous Development: None
“Literacy was never Tom’s forte. It’s comforting to know that some things never change.”
– Mrs Williams, Year 8 English