PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT

‘How to Eat Your Husband’ – Dark comedy TV Series/feature, adapted from Natalie Young’s best-selling novel, ‘Season to Taste – Or how to eat your Husband’. (Writer/Director)

In a fit of long suppressed rage, 59 year old suburban housewife, Lizzy Prain decides to bludgeon her husband of nearly 40 years to death with a spade, in her dressing gown. With, it appears, only one option to get rid of the evidence and get away with murder, Lizzy gives herself one month to eat her husband’s body and escape to Scotland to start a new life.

Sugg Cast: Kate Winslet, Chris Eccleston (attached to play Jacob), Bernard Hill (attached to play Emmett), Eddie Izzard, Katherine Kelly 

'Mother in the Cupboard' – feature screenplay written & developed by Tracey & David Baddiel. (Creater/writer/director).

Chrissie Hubbard, a young, career driven lawyer and single mother is killed in a freak accident, leaving her 8 yr old daughter Nellie in the custody of her best (but not entirely responsible) male friend, Ed.  Soon after her death, unwittingly drawn to the ensuing chaos from the ‘other side’, Chrissie comes back, through various electronic devices, unable to rest until she sorts out the mess Ed’s making in trying to bring up her daughter. ‘Ghost’ meets ‘Kramer vs Kramer’ in a tragic but touching paranom-com.

‘Insomnia’ – Dark comedy drama TV series adapted from David Baddiel’s best-selling book ‘Time for Bed’. (Co-writer/director)

Unemployed Gabriel Jacoby can’t get to sleep.  As if his mad housemate Nick, a possessed cat, and a flea infested armchair aren’t enough to contend with, Gabriel has one other problem keeping him awake. He is madly in love with his brother’s wife, Alice.  So, when her sister, Dina comes to stay from the US, Gabriel asks her out, in order to get closer to Alice, so she will fall madly in love with him. The only trouble is, Dina hates him.  Set in the 90’s, with a banging sound-track and fun quirks of the period, ‘INSOMNIA’ is a hilarious, touching tale of unrequited love, unhinged behaviour and unemployment.

‘River Man’ – Feature film on enigmatic, musicial genius, Nick Drake. (Director)

Told through the eyes of Nick’s sister Gabrielle, and based on correspondence with his family, stories from school & university friends, and accounts from others who spent time with him, we will tell the story of enigmatic musician, Nick Drake.  The film will depict the developing years of this charming, warm, witty, gentle character, whose quiet, but steady determination to write and develop his own songs & unique guitar playing style, touched the lives of everyone he met.  But after battles with mental health, and with his whole life & career ahead of him, Nick tragically died aged just 26 years old in November 1974.  

'Back in the Game' – Comedy/Drama TV series (writer/director)

After 15 years of friendship & two failed marriages, Annie 39 & Cecily 43 find themselves single once more and facing the prospect of getting back in the dating game, sharing a house and a rather mangy mutt called Mildred.  Which, after years of having their own places, money and men, puts rather a strain on their relationship, particularly in light of Annie’s OCD and Cecily’s rather laissez-faire attitude to cleanliness, it's a potential recipe for disaster.  Hopefully their friendship can survive and they can achieve their ultimate life-goals: Avoid bankruptcy; NOT sleep with exes/other fuckwit lost-boys; Find ‘THE ONE’. Which they will. Won’t they?  

‘The Fishing Times’ – Feature/TV series with Bernard Hill attached. (Writer/director)

An unlikely friendship between a grumpy old man and a young traveller girl who, united by their troubled past and love of fishing, join forces to solve a murder.  Two worlds collide when, in the musty darkness of an ancient rambling house, an old woman is found hanged, and all the ghosts from the old man’s past resurface. The young girl takes it upon herself to investigate to save her friend from his demons, but in turn, awakens her own.  Set in the atmospheric but desolate & deprived estuary town of Jaywick, The Fishing Times is a touching story of two lost souls looking for redemption.