STUDENT'S WORKSHEET: Pitching a TV Series

Channel 6 will commission a new TV show. Choose a TV series you enjoyed and complete the
following questions to persuade your classmates to watch the show:

Where/when is it set?
Genre?

What is the storyline about? Tell us the pilot episode story.

Who is the cast?

Briefly describe the main characters

How many episodes/ seasons does it have? How long does it take to watch each episode?

Who are your target audience?

How many viewers do you expect to have?

Why should people watch it?

Why is your show better than other ones on the market?

How can it help you with your English?

TV series
Mind Your Language

Where/when is it set?
It is set in London, England, in the late '70.

Genre?
It's a SITCOM.

What is the storyline about? Tell us the pilot episode story.

It shows the daily life of a class of adult immigrants learning English in a further studies school, not
only in class, but also in the school canteen during breaktime, and even in the schools corridors.

It also pictures the relations between the teacher, a young man, and his headmistress, an elderly
bachelor lady.
Who is the cast?
School staff

Mr. Brown, the English teacher.

Miss (not Ms.) Courtney, the headmistress.

Gladys, the old waitress in the school cafeteria.

Sydney, the cockney caretaker of the school.

Students

Danielle Favre, the gorgeous French au pair.

Anna Schmidt, a stereotypical German au pair.

Chung Su-Lee, a secretary from the communist China.

Jameela Ranjha, a Indian homewife.

Giovanni Capello, an Italian chef.

Juan Cervantes, a Spanish bartender.

Ranjeet Singh, a devout Sikh from Punjab in India, employee in the London Underground.

Ali Nadim, a Pakistani Muslim from Lahore, unemployed and occasional door to door salesman.

Tar Nagazumi, a Japanese representative from an electronics company.

Maximillian Andrea Archimedes Papandrious, Max, a Greek shipping agency worker.

More students appear in series 2 and 4.

Briefly describe the main characters

How many episodes/ seasons does it have? How long does it

take to watch each episode?
ITV sitcom. 42 episodes (4 series), 1977 - 1986. Stars Barry Evans, George Camiller, Tommy
Godfrey, Jacki Harding, Pik Sen Lim, Robert Lee, Kevork Malikyan and others.

1 13 30 December 1977 23 March 1978

2 8 5 October 1978 23 November 1978

3 8 25 October 1979 20 December 1979

4 13 4 January 1986 21 April 1986

It seems that the series was discontinued because it was found non politically correct in the UK, but
had a great success, especially in the countries from where some of their citizens were depicted.

Who are your target audience?

How many viewers do you expect to have?

Why should people watch it?

Why is your show better than other ones on the market?

How can it help you with your English?