Father Ted: The Complete Scripts - Hardcover

Graham Linehan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0752218026 ISBN 13: 9780752218021

Publisher: Pan Macmillan, 1999

Synopsis

We're great fans of script books, but too many of them seem to be transcribed from the screen by a third party rather than written by the original authors. With this in mind, we've decided to publish the next-to-last drafts of each episode of "Father Ted," and so provide you with the extra characters and scenes and jokes that didn't make it into the final version for one or another reason. Now, what we've got here doesn't differ too wildly from what ended up on your TV screens, but there's the odd nice surprise. The process of making "Father Ted" was fun - we always had a great crew, and the cast exceeded our wildest expectations - but the process of writing it was even better. We rarely sweated over the scripts contained here - it was more like dropping by the Parochial House, turning on a tape recorder and seeing what happened next. If this book goes some way to illuminating that process, then it'll have done its job. On the other hand, if it just makes you laugh, it'll have done its job too. Enjoy yourselves. We certainly did.

About this title

About the Author

Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews met while working as film critic and art director respectively at Hot Press magazine in Dublin and started writing together shortly afterwards. As well as their work on Father Ted, the writers' credits include: The All New Alexei Sayle Show, Paris, The Day Today, Brass Eye and Coogan's Run. Father Ted has won numerous comedy awards including two BAFTAs, one in 1995 and the other in 1999.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0752218026
• ISBN 13: 9780752218021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256