About Phil
Philip Gilliver is a writer new to the world of sitcom scripts for TV and Radio, which are currently bouncing around agents and producers where he makes his best attempts at wooing agents and production companies in return for an offer of representation or production.
A lover of life, Philip is very happy being alive in Wrexham in North Wales with his wife, a Springer spaniel and two cats. (That's a pet Springer Spaniel, his wife is actually a human.) He has a 2:1 degree in Literature With Media, thirty-plus years experience with creative writing, acting and musical performance. He also has seven books, a play, a song and a couple of sitcoms under his belt which is why his trousers are so tight. With a number of fingers in fires and pipes in lines in poker-pies, he endeavours to try to get his scripts into the public eye. Philip enjoys putting words in front of one another in an amusing and satisfying way more than anything else. Meanwhile, stay tuned to this airbag! Peruse the pages within this website and get an idea about what the person mentioned in the first sentence of this paragraph is all about.
For now, here's a rhyme...
A lover of life, Philip is very happy being alive in Wrexham in North Wales with his wife, a Springer spaniel and two cats. (That's a pet Springer Spaniel, his wife is actually a human.) He has a 2:1 degree in Literature With Media, thirty-plus years experience with creative writing, acting and musical performance. He also has seven books, a play, a song and a couple of sitcoms under his belt which is why his trousers are so tight. With a number of fingers in fires and pipes in lines in poker-pies, he endeavours to try to get his scripts into the public eye. Philip enjoys putting words in front of one another in an amusing and satisfying way more than anything else. Meanwhile, stay tuned to this airbag! Peruse the pages within this website and get an idea about what the person mentioned in the first sentence of this paragraph is all about.
For now, here's a rhyme...
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A six-part sitcom trying to make its way to radio.
"Look out, they're coming to protect you!"
20 years ago, Tyler Pritchard's dad, a respectable policeman was mowed down by a car stolen by a group of youths. The perpetrators were never caught.
His dad and mum had high expectations of him because he seemed to be a very bright five-year-old.
20 years later he has grown up to be a disappointment. He is a 25-year-old geek still living with his mother, who is now an abrasive combat weaponry enthusiast. His mother nags him to do something responsible and honour his father's memory, but he would rather sit around with his friends at Geek Club talking about plastic action figures and spaceship drive systems.
Then his old friend, Minty has an interesting idea. Wales' very first Guardian Angels/superhero ensemble.
FUN FACTS!
"Pontypontpont is basically Wrexham in North Wales where I have spent most of my life. When I was in my teens I joined a drama group who met at the Wrexham Library Arts Centre. I managed to forge friendships with most of the group, some of which I am still in contact with today. Most of us being unemployed, we would meet up at the Library Coffee Shop which would attract an assortment of characters which would fascinate me. This is why most of the meetings of Geek Club take part in the fictional version, Libris."
"The pilot episode entitled, 'No Job For a Geek.' Is based on a true story. A naive youngster called Philip Gilliver arrived at his first job at a DIY store in Wrexham, only to find the assistant manager was selling kitchens and not putting them in the books, the manager was helping himself to whatsoever and his fellow floor walker had a deal going with the local taxi office. He would wait for the manager to go to the bank and a cab would arrive around the back and he would hand items over the fence and they would pay him for it."
"The members of Geek club/Street Guardians are street-fighting superheroes, but we never see this. Most of what goes on at night is told at meetings through reported speech. The most interesting things are the bizarre occurrences which pop up in their real lives."
"Look out, they're coming to protect you!"
20 years ago, Tyler Pritchard's dad, a respectable policeman was mowed down by a car stolen by a group of youths. The perpetrators were never caught.
His dad and mum had high expectations of him because he seemed to be a very bright five-year-old.
20 years later he has grown up to be a disappointment. He is a 25-year-old geek still living with his mother, who is now an abrasive combat weaponry enthusiast. His mother nags him to do something responsible and honour his father's memory, but he would rather sit around with his friends at Geek Club talking about plastic action figures and spaceship drive systems.
Then his old friend, Minty has an interesting idea. Wales' very first Guardian Angels/superhero ensemble.
FUN FACTS!
"Pontypontpont is basically Wrexham in North Wales where I have spent most of my life. When I was in my teens I joined a drama group who met at the Wrexham Library Arts Centre. I managed to forge friendships with most of the group, some of which I am still in contact with today. Most of us being unemployed, we would meet up at the Library Coffee Shop which would attract an assortment of characters which would fascinate me. This is why most of the meetings of Geek Club take part in the fictional version, Libris."
"The pilot episode entitled, 'No Job For a Geek.' Is based on a true story. A naive youngster called Philip Gilliver arrived at his first job at a DIY store in Wrexham, only to find the assistant manager was selling kitchens and not putting them in the books, the manager was helping himself to whatsoever and his fellow floor walker had a deal going with the local taxi office. He would wait for the manager to go to the bank and a cab would arrive around the back and he would hand items over the fence and they would pay him for it."
"The members of Geek club/Street Guardians are street-fighting superheroes, but we never see this. Most of what goes on at night is told at meetings through reported speech. The most interesting things are the bizarre occurrences which pop up in their real lives."
ATMOS INT. CAFE LIBRIS. DAY.
MEETING
TYLER Welcome again one and all to week seven of Geek Club and I would like to start by thanking you all for turning up for our very first Street Guardians patrol and may I say what an interesting evening it was for one and all. The costumes alone were, shall we say... interesting. For instance, Dan.
DAN Yes!
TYLER I couldn't help but notice that you weren't wearing superhero garb, did you forget?
DAN No.
TYLER What then?
DAN That was my costume.
TYLER Your normal, everyday clothes was your costume?
DAN Yes.
TYLER Then what pray was your superhero persona?
DAN Dan!
TYLER No, that's your actual name. What was your superhero name?
DAN Dan!
TYLER So your superhero name is Dan, and you wear your own clothes. Tell me, Dan. What do you propose to do in a superhero lifesaving situation? In the blink of an eye, dash into the nearest alleyway, divest yourself of your everyday clothes and put them all back on again?
DAN Yes!
MINTY I thought that the Lycra outfit that Cerys was wearing as her character Super-fit, was too tight, personally.
TYLER No it wasn't!
MINTY I was a little concerned for her circulation. And what about you, then?
TYLER My costume wasn't tight either.
MINTY Not your Owl of Justice ensemble, your OCD.
TYLER What about my OCD?
MINTY You rearranged all the traffic bollards so they were all exactly four feet apart from one another, and as for removing that police crime scene tape?
TYLER What about it?
CERYS The murder investigation is ongoing.
Brian Hingle changed after the accident, he went from loud-mouthed, overconfident, vain, serial adulterer and drugs runner to mild, muddled, busy body, serial hobbyist and model train enthusiast.
There is a very good reason for this, and that is because he has been possessed by a wandering spirit. Only now there is a problem, how will the new Brian, cope with all of the repercussions of his other self? Like the angry drugs lords, the angry husbands and the pregnant women turning up on his doorstep. His mistress loves him even more now, whilst his wife longs for the old, nasty individual she could never trust.
But when his old spirit returns there is a fight to determine who now has ownership of the body. Simultaneously, there is a struggle of love. His wife, who wants the old, bad boy Brian, and his mistress, who has since fallen for the new one.
There is a very good reason for this, and that is because he has been possessed by a wandering spirit. Only now there is a problem, how will the new Brian, cope with all of the repercussions of his other self? Like the angry drugs lords, the angry husbands and the pregnant women turning up on his doorstep. His mistress loves him even more now, whilst his wife longs for the old, nasty individual she could never trust.
But when his old spirit returns there is a fight to determine who now has ownership of the body. Simultaneously, there is a struggle of love. His wife, who wants the old, bad boy Brian, and his mistress, who has since fallen for the new one.
This is no news yet, but watch this space!
INTERESTING MOMENTS IN HISTORY
(1899) In a bid to prove to the country that she is just as sane as everyone else, good old Queen Victoria jumps on her horse to Tesco to buy radishes.
