"...............this is the official blog of Screenwriter and Producer Simon Allen and that's Paul McGann up there playing Clarence in our weird little 2005 fantasy pilot Fables of Forgotten Things which I am still VERY proud of after all these years. We made it for nothing but we made it with everything. Google it. Search it out. It might make you feel better............."
Saturday 7 May 2022
"Our Netflix Original Horror Choose or Die goes to Number One in 40 Countries with over 30 million viewing hours in its first 10 days!"
Thursday 29 July 2021
"....The Watch launches on BBC Two!"
Simon Allen, Craig Viveiros, Colleen Kelsall and Richard Stokes
Episodes 1 and 2 will be broadcast on BBC Two at 9pm on Thursday August 12. Read new interviews at Sci Fi Bulletin with Jo Eaton Kent (Cheery) and Creator Simon Allen. |
Thursday 8 July 2021
Wednesday 30 June 2021
".....The Watch launches on BBC iPlayer!"
We had SO much fun making this show and exhausted global supplies of eyeliner, wigs, deeply inappropriate 80s needledrops, mirrorballs and queer magic.
Check out The Watch on BBC iPlayer via the official BBC Two website.
If you're interested you can also check out this interview with Writer Producer Simon Allen for the British Comedy Guide.
".....SFX Magazine interview and feature about The Watch."
Monday 28 June 2021
".....6 Shows Featuring Trans and Non-Binary Characters to Watch Now."
Kat Palmer, an associate producer at Meredith Corporation, who is transgender, has named The Watch as one of 6 shows that represent trans and non-binary characters accurately and without stigma.
"In The Watch there's a transgender dwarf who left the all-male dwarf mine to live as a woman in the city. There's even an episode where she returns to the mine and confronts their blind conformity and fear of anything different. I particularly like this character because they don't play up the 'man in a dress' angle for laughs. They treat her as a full and complex person with dignity.'
Read the full article at Hello Giggles.