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Arty Facts

[Repeated from Sunday 1.30pm.] Arty Facts with Master J is a show about working in the arts. Today: Master J is joined by performer, director, choreographer, theatre teacher and theatre-school principal Susy Puckett, whose career has taken her from touring with the original cast in the stage production of Victoria Wood's Dinner Ladies, CH4’s Top Boy, dancing in music videos for urban artist Jahna Sebastian, and working with Sir Michael Caine. But the question we ask is, what on earth possessed her to write, direct and star in her own sitcom pilot? In 2013 Susy made Help Yourselves, producing the whole thing herself. We discover what it takes to make a sitcom from scratch, what happened when she got the finished product in front of broadcasters, and whether she would do it all again. Expect stories about the difficulties of lighting a scene when you have no professional lighting, casting actors when you have no budget, and filming a sitcom with no audience to gauge the laughter. We'll also find out if Master J had been the commissioning editor, would he have given it a series? For more information visit Master J on Facebook.

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