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Agent: Edward Hughes

Brian Jordan is a writer working across numerous disciplines. Brian wrote sketches for shows such as Nick Hancock’s World of Sport and John Inverdale’s Onside. He has written numerous stage plays ranging from issue-led theatre to black comedies and also wrote and presented numerous shows on Sports radio stations such as BBC Radio 5 Live and TalkSport. Brian has written for popular kids’ shows such as Rastamouse for Three Stones Media, Leonardo for Kindle and CBBC, and Life Bites for Prism and The Disney Channel. Brian currently has a number of feature films and sitcom projects in development.

Film:

TINY DYNAMITE – Vertigo Films

Re-write of football comedy feature
(In development)

BLOODHOUNDS – Western Edge Pictures

Comedy feature
Co-written with Vaughan Sivell and Chris Rowe
(In development)

DUTCH CAPS 

Comedy set in the world of football
(Spec script)

Television:

JAMILLAH & ALADDIN – Kindle Entertainment/CBBC

Episode of children’s series

LEONARDO Series 1 and 2 – Kindle Entertainment/CBBC

Four episodes of the hit children’s series

RASTAMOUSE – Three Stones Media

Four episodes of the hit pre-school animated series

LIFE BITES – Prism Entertainment/Disney Channel

Three episodes of the comedy series

XOL – Steve Walsh Productions

Episode of the animated series

THE OUTLAW – Channel 4/Triffic Films

Animation series based on the Michael Heath comic strip from Private Eye about the last smoker in Britain
Story-liner and writer of two episodes

OGRI – Channel 4/Ogri Films

Film about the legendary biker

OUT OF TUNE – BBC

Children’s sitcom about a choir that cannot sing
Developed bible, story-lined and wrote nine episodes over three series

THE WOMBLES – Cinar Films

Story lined and wrote five episodes for the new Wombles series

FIX IT IN POST

Original comedy pilot
Co-written with Chris Rowe
(Spec script)

BABY BLUE

Original comedy drama pilot about police in training
(Spec script)

CITIZEN JANE

Original comedy drama series pilot
(Spec script)

SAMANTHA SPADE

Original crime drama series pilot
(Spec script)

Sketch and Entertainment Shows:

SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR – BBC

Flagship annual sports review
Writer 2001-2006

ONSIDE – BBC

Sports chat and comedy show with John Inverdale
Script editor and writer for six series

NICK HANCOCK’S WORLD OF SPORT – Chrysalis/BBC

Sketches for Nick Hancock sport show

MAY AND YOU – Ulster Television

Two scripts for John Lenehan’s grotesque, comic creation, May McFetteridge

HAVAKAZOO – Channel 5

70 episodes of funny, bubbly early morning kid’s show

COMEDY WAVELENGTH – Channel 4

Sketch show

ON THE WATERFRONT – BBC

Sketch show

Theatre:

DILEMMA FOR MURDER – Watermill Theatre, Newbury

Comedy thriller/murder-mystery and celebrity guests

THE NEARLY MEN – Sixth Sense Theatre Company

A piece about risk taking by adolescents and young men

HARD BOYS IN WHITE SHIRTS – Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith/Edinburgh Festival

A piece about the skulduggery of politics; comic and dark

THIS SECRET LIFE – Sixth Sense Theatre Company

A case study of violence in relationships

TESS – Risk Theatre Company

Adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s classic novel

TAKING IT LYING DOWN – Sixth Sense Theatre Company

A play that dealt with the issue of teenage pregnancies

WHO R U TALKING 2? – Greenwich and Lewisham Young People’s Theatre

A play about the young people and how they use the internet

SELLING GRACE – Sixth Sense Theatre Company

A piece exploring teenage prostitution

PARTY POPPERS – Alcohol and Drug Advisory Service

The aim was to make young people laugh whilst telling them how bad alcohol can be for you

THE LEMON CONSPIRACY – The Watermill Theatre, Newbury

Performed by young actors aged from 10 to 18
The piece had a plot spanning 100 years and began in 1945

WHOOPS VICAR IS THAT YOUR DICK?

A sketch show with the word ‘dick’ in the title and therefore only seen at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Student Union Theatres throughout the UK

Radio:

YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS – BBC Radio 5 Live

One hour, weekly, sports satire show
Writer/Presenter for four series

TAMARA NEVER COMES – Liberty Radio

Comedy soap featuring Roger and Tamara, a modern couple battling against the odds in the Chiswick triangle

talkSPORT

Phone-in radio show
Writer and Presenter

WHO ATE ALL THE PIES

Saturday afternoon football sketch show
Syndicated to all EMAP stations around the UK
Written and performed with Nick Hancock & Chris England

WEEKENDING – Radio 4

Topical sketch show

‘98  FRENCH LETTERS – BBC Radio 5 Live

Comedy show about the Football World Cup.
Writer/Presenter

STUMPED – BBC 5 Live

Devised and wrote comedy cricket quiz

Online:

Editor-in-Chief of 80 official football club websites on behalf of PTV.  Ran a general football newsroom of 24 subs and writers as well as dealing with club journalists nationwide. The brief was to be accurate but also slightly subversive, fanzine-like and funny.