With a £5000 development deal up for grabs a staggering 2,136 scripts landed in our laps.
Needless to say, we had to delay the reveal of the list of finalists and wean our judges off the tea and hobnobs they’d been downing to get through them all.
…and here they are, the final 40:
2:2 by Lewis Elliot, Josh Mellor, Sid Sagar and Toby Shevlane
The 7.52 by Christopher Glasson
A Month Of Sundays by Daniel Hobden
All The Fun Of The Fair by Alan O’Brien and Dominic Murphy
Beneficiary by Rupert Apsden
Bobby by Juliet Valdez
Craig by Steve Nelson
Date Me by Ziella Bryars
Digs by Alasdair Morrison
Diminishing Returns by Mohammed Mahbood Khan
Dirty Barry by Paul Hinnrichs
Drone by Ian Gordon
Dumped by Laura Fountain
Four’s Company by Mark Pinshon
Funny Girls by Julie Currie and Paula Currie
Hated by Nathan Thomas
Intelligence by Louisa Fielden
Keep Off The Grass by Sarah Christou
Last Days Of Home by Rachel Aroesti
Laundry Service by James Chapman
Mascots by Neil Bennett
Memo by Peter Brownlow
The Motherhood by Abby Woolf
Multiplex by Simon Craig
The Neighbours From Hell by John Rooney, Stephen McCole and Paul McCole
Off The Road by Matt Plass and Kai Merriott
Roadies by David Nicholds
Rosencrantz by Francis Blagburn and Angus Harrison
Siblings by Martin Holmes
Specials by Mark Clompus and Stephen Keyworth
Status by Hannah George and James Whitehouse
Summertime by John Hart
The Support by Lyndsey Honou
Three’s A Tribe by Pete Barnes
Tight Five by Matthew Stott
Twenties-Thirties by Tim Sewell
Under Exposed by Matt Oakley
Uncle Richard by Ben Cottram
Vargon Lives! by Christopher Stanners
The Wonderkid by Ed Palmer
Well done to all! Be sure to pick up next week’s Shortlist where those 40 become 4 – it’s like a harsher version of The X Factor.
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