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ACTION TIME
Researcher "Joker in The Pack" for BBC1

ANGLIA TV
Scriptwriter, Promotions
Writer/Editor "Film Five"
Writer-Producer, Promotions
Director, Promotions
Director/Manager, Promotions

Script Consultant "Trisha"

ASSEMBLY FILM & TELEVISION
Programme Consultant "Jo Brand's Hot Potatoes"

ATV
Scriptwriter, Promotions
Concept/research "Moonlight Sonata" (documentary on wartime bombing of Coventry)
Researcher "Tiswas"

BBC TV
Researcher, Ceefax
Sub-Editor, Ceefax
Researcher, BBC TV News
Writer, BBC Elstree Entertainment Dept 'Offers'
Script Consultant, "Four Square" gameshow

PETER BEARD PRODUCTION
Script "The Jingle Zone" (launch promo)
Script "Lifestyle TV" (Dutch PR tape)
Script "Lifestyle TV" (UK marketing tape)
Script "Smirnoff's 170th Anniversary" (PR tape)
Script "Terry's Chocolates 1989 Xmas" (PR tape)

BRITISH ANIMATION AWARDS
Judge "Best Use of Humour in Animation"

CAPLAN WILKIE
Co-director ITV sales tape
Concept ITV press/agency tape
Script Granada Productions US sales tape

CENTRAL TV
Researcher "Tiswas"
Researcher "The Saturday Show"
Associate Producer "The Saturday Show"

CHANNEL 4
Producer-Director, Promotions

CHANNEL 5
Co-director station launch press tape
Consultant concept/script station launch programme

CHANNEL X
Researcher "The Last Resort With Jonathan Ross" for Channel 4
Talent Consultant "Tonight With Jonathan Ross" for Channel 4

DISCOVERY EUROPE
Producer, Promotions

FAMILY CHANNEL
Consultant, station launch promotions
Director, Promotions

FIRST INDEPENDENT FILMS
Director, Corporate tape

GANGSTER VIDEOS
Production Manager & Consultant on:
"Angel of the Underworld"

"Bamford's Bust Up 1"
"Bamford's Bust Up 2"
"Beyond The Grave - The Krays"
"Ronnie Biggs Night Out 1 & 2"
"Bride of Bronson - I Married a Monster"

"Carlton Leach: The Real Rise of a Foot Soldier"
"Cass Pennant - Enough Said!"
"CFC: The Cage Fighters Championship"
"Cockney Rejects"

"Dave Courtney's Dodgy DVD"
"Dave Courtney - Even Dodgier"
"Dave Courtney's Party - Uncut!"

"Free at Last - Reg Kray's Funeral"
"Gangsters UK"
"Jason Marriner: Football Hooligan!"
"Jimmy White - The One and Only"
"Jimmy White & Alan McManus' Absolute Snooker"
"Joe Egan With The Toughest Men on the Planet"
"The Krays' Geordie Connection"
"The Krays' Geordie Connection DVD"
"Mad Frank Fraser - Friends & Enemies"
"Punch-Up Volume 1"
"Punch-Up Volume 2"
"Punch-Up Volume 3"
"Pyle's Punch-Up 1"
"Pyle's Punch-Up 2"
"Pyle's Punch-Up 3"
"Pyle's Punch-Up 4"
"Pyle's Punch-Up 5"
"Pyle's Punch-Up 6"
"Pyle's Punch-Up 7"
"Pyle's Punch-Up 8"
"Pyle's Punch-Up 9"
"Pyle's Punch-Up 10"
"Pyle's Punch-Up 11"
"Roy Shaw: Brute Force"
"Roy Shaw: Fight School "
"Thug Club"
"Total Violence 1"
"Total Violence 2"
"A Tribute to Tony Lambrianou"
"The Ultimate Gangster Collection"
"The Ultimate Gangster DVD"
"The Ultimate Gangster DVD 2"

"Underground Boxing" (TV series)
"Warriors II"
"Warriors III"
"Warriors IV"

GMTV
Scriptwriter, station launch promotions

GRANADA TV
Scriptwriter/trailermaker, Promotions
Liaison/writing, local lunchtime News
Researcher "Cartoon Crackers"
Researcher "Hold Tight!"
Researcher "Ruby Turner in Concert"
Researcher "It Bites in Concert"
Researcher, pre-production "Runway"
Question contributor "Connections"
Editor/Manager, Promotions
Director, Promotions

Script Consultant "This Morning"

REG GRUNDY PRODUCTIONS
Question contributor "Txandaka" game show for Euskal Telebista, Spain
Question contributor "Txandaka" re-format for Euskal Telebista, Spain

HARPER CREATIVE
Voice-Over Director, three soft-core porn channels
Script consultant Hallmark promos
Script consultant TCM docu "The First 100 Years of The Western"

Voice-Over Director, MTV movie competitions
Voice-Over Director, Nickelodeon movie competition
Researcher TCM docu "The A-Z of Crime Movies"

HTV
Associate Producer, Promotions
Producer-Director, Promotions
Director, press, sales, marketing & sponsorship tapes
Director, HTV Group corporate tape
Director, Rights Division international launch tape

IMAGICIANS
Associate Producer "The World of Guinness Peat Aviation" (12 minute corporate video)

ITCA
Writer/Producer/Editor "Children's ITV" for ITV

ITVA
Co-director ITV sales/marketing/press tapes
Co-director ITV re-launch tape

ITV NETWORK CENTRE
Co-director ITV sales/marketing tapes
Consultant concept & script, press/ad agency tape
Producer-Director, ITV Daytime relaunch promos
Consultant/Producer-Director, promos

Producer-Director, ITV2 sales tape

ITV NEWS CHANNEL
Consultant/producer image/promos

JOHN FLEMING PRESENTS
"Killer Bitch" (full-length movie)

LAID BARE NET
Production Manager & Consultant on:
"Shell & Vanessa- Laid Bare"
"Sam Heuston - Laid Bare"
"The Laid Bare Collection"

LAMBIE HARPER
Launch promos Discovery Channel, Italy
Launch promos Discovery Channel, South Africa

THE LEARNING CHANNEL
Producer, Promotions

LIFESTYLE
Writer-Producer, Promotions

LWT
Researcher "Game For a Laugh"
Researcher "Surprise! Surprise!"

MENTORN FILMS
Associate Producer "Early Bird" for Channel 4

MIRRORVISION
Writer-Producer, Promotions

NOEL GAY TV
Associate Producer, BSB series development
Associate Producer "The Flip Show" pilot for BSB
Associate Producer "Pull The Plug!" pilot for BSB
Fact contributor "La Triviata" for BSB
Question contributor "Origins" pilot for BSB
Talent consultant "The Happening" for BSB
Producer "Malcolm Hardee: 25 Years in Showbiz" for BSB
Producer "Jerry Sadowitz: The Last Laugh" for BSB
Producer, pre-production "Hardee's Half Hour" for Channel 4

OPEN MIKE
Talent Consultant "The Jack Dee Show" pilot for Channel 4
Researcher "Jack Dee's Saturday Night" for ITV

PERFORMANCE
Producer-Director, Promotions
Producer-Director, Corporate Commercials

SCREENSPORT
Producer, Promotions

SOUTHERN TV
Scriptwriter, Promotions

TALBOT TV
Question contributor, "Who's Bluffing Who?" for BBC1

TARA TV (Dublin)
Producer-Director station launch promos
Producer-Director station re-launch promos

THAMES TV
Scriptwriter, Promotions

TV3
Producer-Director, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish promotions

TV1000
Producer-Director, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish promotions
Producer-Director, "Film till tusen":...Swedish movie preview programme (30 mins)

TVMAX (Prague)
Producer, Czech promotions for Max 1 & Supermax
Producer, Czech marketing tapes

TVS
Journalist/Trailermaker, Promotions
Researcher, "Prove It!"
Director, Promotions

UK GOLD
Producer-Director, Promotions
Director, Sales tape

UNIVERSAL HARMONY FILMS
Co-writer treatment, feature film "One Life Later"
Scriptwriter, feature film "One Life Later"

UPC TV (Amsterdam)
Producer-Director, station launch promos

WOODS' NETWORK HEROES
Writer, links Discovery Home & Leisure "House"

YORKSHIRE TV
Writer-Producer, Promotions


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BOOKS - PUBLISHED

ANATOMY OF THE MOVIES:
INSIDE THE FILM INDUSTRY
(Pub: Macmillan in USA...Windward in UK & Ireland)
Contributed chapters on special effects, stunting and sci-fi in the movies. Other contributors included Martin Scorsese, Donald Sutherland, Robert Towne.


HANDSTANDS IN THE DARK
(Pub: Ebury Press/Random House in UK & Ireland)
Editor/consultant, autobiography of Glasgow comedienne, actress and playtwright Janey Godley.
No 3 hardback bestseller; top ten paperback bestseller



I STOLE FREDDIE MERCURY'S BIRTHDAY CAKE
(Pub: Fourth Estate in UK & Ireland...

Trafalgar Square in USA)

Co-author, autobiography of comic, agent, club-owner, 'godfather of alternative comedy' Malcolm Hardee.


SIT-DOWN COMEDY
(Pub: Ebury Press/Random House in UK & Ireland)

Editor, anthology of specially-commissioned writing by 19 British stand-up comedians.


THE STANDARD
FAMILY REFERENCE ENCYCOPEDIA

(Pub: Dutton-Elsevier in USA)
Multiple entries (and sub-editing) for a North American desk encyclopaedia on a wide variety of subjects from Cholera to Christianity, Abbeys to Zoroastrianism.


BOOKS - FORTHCOMING

TRAVELLER
(in preparation)

Author, biography of world-class archaeologist, sexual adventurer and Soviet Cold War 'asset'.


MONTHLY MAGAZINES

HALLS OF HORROR
teenage film magazine

Features and interviews on recent and cult horror movies by various production companies.


HOUSE OF HAMMER
teenage film magazine

Features and interviews on recent and cult horror movies by various production companies.


HOUSE OF HORROR
teenage film magazine

Features and interviews on recent and cult horror movies by various production companies.


it: THE INTERNATIONAL TIMES
hippie newspaper

Film Section editor: news, reviews and interviews on the latest movie releases and current film industry gossip.


MENSA MAGAZINE
general magazine

Interviews

STARBURST
film magazine

Interviews and features on current and cult SF/fantasy films and television programmes.


WEEKLY MAGAZINES

THE MOVIE
partwork

Reviews and features (as Martyn Sadler) on classic movies and film techniques.

SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
film trade paper

Interviews (as Martyn Sadler and John Fleming) with high-profile film industry figures.

TOPS
children's comic

Contributions to Sally James column on bizarre facts and eccentric people.


NEWSPAPERS

THE INDEPENDENT
UK national daily

The obituary of Malcolm Hardee



HOMEPAGE......DETAILED CV......REVIEWS......VIDEOS......LINKS......E-MAIL ME

BRITISH MENSA
Audition/Production Consultant "HiQ" variety show (London showcase)

CHARLIE CHUCK PRODUCTIONS
Script consultant (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)
"Charlie Chuck is Scrooge"
"John Laurie, Frazer and I"
"Charlie Chuck, Uncle Peter and Me"

CROSSWORDS PRODUCTIONS
Script consultant (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)
"Legend of the BBC"

FUNNY WOMEN
Judge, semi-final British Funny Women Comedy Awards

GREEN ROOM PRESENTS
UK consultant to Bleecker Street Theater, New York (2008 to present)
UK consultant to Green Room venue, New York (2008 to present)

JANEY GODLEY
ProductionCo-ordinator
"Good Godley!" (Edinburgh Fringe 2004)
"Janey Godley Is Innocent" (Edinburgh Fringe 2005)

“Good Godley!” (Auckland & Wellington, New Zealand, 2006)
“Janey Godley’s Blog - Live!” (Soho Theatre, London & Edinburgh Fringe 2006)
“Janey Godley's The Point of Yes” (Edinburgh Fringe 2006)
“Janey Godley & Ashley Storrie's Square Street” (Edinburgh Fringe 2006)
“Janey Godley's Chat Show" (Edinburgh Fringe 2007)
“Janey Godley - Tell It Like It Is!” (Edinburgh Fringe 2007)

JOHN FLEMING PRESENTS
"I Stole Freddie Mercury's Birthday Cake"
(Edinburgh Fringe and Bath Festivals, 1995)

"The Malcolm Hardee Memorial Show"
(five-hour Hackney Empire tribute show, 2006)
"The Malcolm Hardee Charity Cabaret"
(four-hour Hackney Empire tribute show, 2007)
"Aaaaaaaaaarrghhh! - It's Bollock Relief! - The Malcolm Hardee Award Show"
(90-minute Edinburgh Fringe Festival show, 2009)
"Helen Keen: The Primitive Methodist Guide to Arctic Survival"
(Edinburgh Fringe Festival shows, 2009)
"It IS Rocket Science! - V2"
(Edinburgh Fringe Festival shows, 2010)
"Keen and Khan: Starstruck!"
(Edinburgh Fringe Festival shows, 2010)
"Lewis Schaffer is Free Until Famous"
(Edinburgh Fringe Festival shows, 2010)



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ANTHROPICS TECHNOLOGY
Demo scripts new software G3 mobile message system

BORKOWSKI PR WEBSITE
Contributor, gossip column

CHORTLE
Comedy reviews, Edinburgh Fringe
occasional Correspondents columnist

THE HUFFINGTON POST
Blogger

WHAT'S ON STAGE
Edinburgh Fringe blog

WRITERS' GUILD OF GREAT BRITAIN

Daily blog, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Advisor, Edinburgh Fringe New Writers' Awards



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ANGLIA TV
Writer-Producer radio promotions

MADHOUSE
Writer-Producer "The Titter Factor" (pilot)


HOMEPAGE......DETAILED CV......REVIEWS......VIDEOS......LINKS......E-MAIL ME