Major Project: Tennis Club

For my major project I will be writing a 6 episode comedy series which would be shown on BBC3. Here is a quick run down of the main idea of Tennis Club.

Runtime: 25 - 30 minute episodes (average for new comedys)

Target audience: Young adults

Elevator Pitch: "Tennis Club is about a 20-something year old loner who after chatting with an old classmate, finds himself running a club with shitty equipment and 2 less than athletic weirdos"

Characters: Toby (Main character, loner) Bobbers (old classmate, non-athletic weirdo), Ross (fat shit, friends with Bobbers), Elsie (Toby's sister), Katie (Toby's co-worker).

First Episode: Toby as said before is a loner, he has a job but refuses to interact with the majority of them, the only person he talks to is his sister who nags him constantly about how he should try to make friends. on his way to work he accidentally bumps into Bobbers who offers him a place in his Tennis Club with the opportunity to meet new people, Toby accepts. That friday Toby arrives at the tennis club and the tennis club is not what he thought it would be. There is a huge lack of equipment, no tennis courts, basically nothing which the leaflet that Bobbers gave him promised. To sub for the lack of net Bobbers tells Ross to lay down on the floor, instead of using an actual tennis racket Bobbers uses a cricket bat and after a few failed attempts of a serve he starts to get picked on by loitering school children. Toby stands up these youths, gets into a fight with one of them (which he wins) and sends them on their way. After a total of two serves the trio go to the pub where Bobbers tricks Toby into becoming the leader of the tennis club much to Toby's disapproval. Toby is now the leader of a run down club which has almost nothing.

The series continue from there on, episodes show how Toby grows more sociable and how his character changes as he shoulders on through the misfortunes of the tennis club. Episodes include trying to sort out the budget, trying to recruit more people, Elsie getting a boyfriend (who turns out to be Ross), a dispute between Toby and Bobbers and the series finale where Elsie enters the Tennis club into amateur tournament having played almost zero proper games, almost no good equipment.