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Andrew Viner is a comedy, animation and children's writer. Details of some of his commissions are given below.

CBBC 2009-2010 Writer for Sadie Jones, a new CBBC 30' sitcom series. One episode commissioned.
Timmy Time 2008-2010 Writer for Aardman pre-school show Timmy Time. Five episodes commissioned.
Darrall Macqueen 2009 Writer for Pet Squad, a new children's animated series from Darrall Macqueen. One episode commissioned.
My Almost Famous Family 2008-2009 Writer for My Almost Famous Family, a CBBC 30' comedy-drama series. Two episodes commissioned, including the first episode. Also worked as story editor and sole writer for the show's interactive website.
Bear Behaving Badly 2008-2009 Writer of two episodes of Bear Behaving Badly, Darrall Macqueen's CBBC sitcom.
BBC College of Comedy 2008-2009 One of six participants taking part in the BBC's College of Comedy. Original sitcom script commissioned.
Venn That Tune 2008 Venn That Tune: Bringing the Poetry of Maths to the Magic of Pop!
Diagrams, graphs and pie charts pit lyrics against logic to shed fresh light on such classics as Eternal Flame, Papa's Got a Brand New Bag and How Much is that Doggie in the Window? in this ingenious, inspired and utterly addictive book published by Hodder & Stoughton. Venn diagrams have never looked so cool ...
"***** Witty and ingenious" - Time Out
"Genuinely hilarious" - The Daily Telegraph
"Made me laugh out loud" - The Independent on Sunday
Amazon humour bestseller.
Featured in The Times, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail and Telegraph.co.uk.
Boblins 2007-2008 Writer of five episodes of Inspire GLG's children's series Boblins. See a clip here.
Big and Small 2007-2008 Writer of three episodes of Kindle Entertainment's pre-school series Big and Small.
Kindle Entertainment 2008 Co-writer (with Andy Bernhardt) of pilot script for new children's series for Kindle Entertainment.
Skatoony 2007-2008 Writer for Cartoon Network's Bafta-nominated animated game show Skatoony. Eight episodes and five promotional shorts commissioned to date. See one of the shorts (co-written with Richard Brookes) here.
Buddy & Elvis 2008 Wrote 10' pilot script for Illuminated Films' animated children's project Buddy & Elvis.
Bottom Knocker Street 2007 Developed children's TV series Bottom Knocker Street with Whirlwind Media.
The Royal Tapes 2007 Shortlisted in BBC Radio's Royal Tapes competition.
Thomas & Friends 2007 Writer for Hit Entertainment's pre-school series Thomas & Friends. One episode commissioned to date.
Jim Jam & Sunny 2006-2007 Wrote nine episodes of Jim Jam & Sunny, the Bafta-nominated pre-school show from Wish Films.
Witty & Twisted 2006-2007 Workshopped runner-up in BBC7's Witty & Twisted comedy writing competition.
Marchmont Films 2006 10' comedy The Three of Us was a runner-up with commendation in Marchmont Films' Short Film Script Competition.
LCC 2004-2005

Attained a Screenwriting MA at the London College of Communication, part of the University of the Arts, London (formerly London College of Printing).

Parsons and Naylor
Parsons and Naylor

2005 Sketch and gag writer for BBC Radio 2's Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections.
The Guardian 2004-2005 Why I Love ... features published in The Guardian. To read them click here.
Sports Shorts 2004 Sports Shorts radio play Goal Difference commissioned and broadcast by BBC Radio Five Live starring Simon Lipson and produced by Toby Swift. An excerpt was also featured on Radio 4's Pick of the Week. To read the script click here.
The Roly Mo Show 2004 Fimbles animated short stories appear in The Roly Mo Show (Novel Entertainment).
Pygmalion 2002 2004 Developed an interactive project (2002) and an animated series (2004) on two Pygmalion programmes.
British Short Screenplay Competition 2004 10' comedy The Three of Us was a runner-up in the British Short Screenplay Competition, run in association with the NFTS. Judges included Kenneth Branagh, Michael Kuhn, Nik Powell and Natascha Wharton.
Gordon the Garden Gnome 2004 Wrote four scripts for the 10' animated pre-school series Gordon the Garden Gnome for Collingwood O'Hare Entertainment.
Aladdin Media 2004 Wrote interstitial trailer script for animated project Faisal and Friends for Aladdin Media.
Anthropics 2004 Wrote gags and short monologues with Zoo42 to demonstrate mobile phone technologies developed by Anthropics.
Rubbadubbers 2001-2004 Wrote 14 episodes and three interstitials of 10' animated pre-school series Rubbadubbers for Hit Entertainment, including lyrics to several songs. Episode Sheriff Terence was short-listed for a British Animation Award. Interstitial Drip! can be seen here.
Skunk Fu! 2004 Commissioned to write 13' pilot treatment for Skunk Fu!, a new Cartoon Saloon project.
Pocoyo 2004 Wrote storylines for Pocoyo, a new 5' pre-school animated series from Carlton International, Novel Entertainment and Zinkia.
Shelltown 2003 Wrote 10' animated pilot script Shelltown for Cosgrove Hall/Shelltown Productions.
Zoo42 2003 Wrote picture caption gags for Zoo42's mobile phone comedy site. For examples click here.
MVmax 2002 Developed interactive fiction ideas with US company MVmax.
The Ark 2002 Wrote five episodes of 23' children's series The Ark for Granada.
Adventurers: Masters of Time 2002 Worked on scripts of all 26 episodes of 23' animated series Adventurers: Masters of Time (Adventurers - Mission Zeitreise) for Greenlight Media and Cosgrove Hall.
Granada Kids 2002 Pre-school series idea optioned by Granada Kids. (Co-written with Andy Bernhardt.)
Fimbles 2002 Wrote animated short stories for Fimbles, the Bafta-nominated pre-school series from Novel Entertainment. Wishing Upon a Star can be seen here.
Aardman

2001

2001

Undertook both structural and polishing work for Aardman's forthcoming feature film Tortoise vs Hare.

Worked with Aardman to develop characters and a pilot for a series of 1' internet animations for a major multi-national company.
Varga 2001 Developed animated series idea for Varga.
PAL 2001 Developed a 30' special animation script on a Performing Arts Lab.
Cosgrove Hall 2001


2000-2001
Wrote 23' animated pilot script for Cosgrove Hall project The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew, based on the characters from the novel by Robert Bolt.

Commissioned by the BBC Animation Unit to write a treatment for Cosgrove Hall project Mungie.
Rex the Runt 1999-2000 Wrote/co-wrote nine episodes of series 2 of cult 10' animated series Rex the Runt for Aardman, including lyrics for the song Bob, You Are a Big Fat Slob. "Pick of the day" - The Observer. A trailer can be seen here.
BBC Films 1999 Original half-hour drama script Dear God commissioned by BBC Films.
TAPS 1998

Nominated for the Taps writer of the year award for sit-com My Perfect Cousin (showcased starring Tony Robinson).

BBC Radio 4 1994 Contributor to BBC Radio 4 series Week Ending.
IMDb To see Internet Movie Database listing, click here.