Sophie Willan
Following a successful pilot watched by over a million viewers the sitcom Alma’s Not Normal is set to return to BBC Two for a full series.
Created, written by, starring and Executive Produced by Sophie Willan, inaugural winner of the BBC’s Caroline Aherne Bursary Award in 2018, Alma’s Not Normal centres on Boltonian wild-child, Alma Nuthall and her family of eccentric, unruly women.
Comedian Sophie Willan has been one of stand-up's most distinctive voices in recent years. Honest, outspoken and frank about her life, she has now has drawn on her history to write this one-off pilot. If the BBC does not commission a series it must need its head examined*.
Alma’s Not Normal is a 30-minute New on Two comedy pilot for BBC Two made by Expectation written by and starring Sophie Willan, who won the BBC’s inaugural Caroline Aherne Bursary Award in 2018.
Set in her home town of Bolton, Sophie draws on her own unusual life experiences for Alma's Not Normal, offering a truly authentic comic voice to the pilot. It follows Boltonian wild-child, Alma Nuthall and her family of eccentric, unruly women.
Comedian Sophie Willan will be doing the voiceover for The Circle, Channel 4's new reality show for the social media age, presented by Alice Levine and Maya Jama.
The Circle’s players will all move into the same building but live in completely separate apartments. Living just inches away from each other, they can't see or hear one another and will never meet their competitors face to face while playing the game.
Sophie Willan has been nominated for the Times Breakthrough Award in the prestigious South Bank Sky Arts Awards.
Inside No 9, Catastrophe and This Country are nominated in the Best Comedy category.
Now in its 22nd year, the annual awards ceremony will take place at The Savoy Hotel in London on Sunday 1 July 2018, hosted by Melvyn Bragg and celebrating the wide range of creative talent Britain has to offer, from Stormzy to Paddington 2. It will also be broadcast on Sky.
Bolton comedian Sophie Willan has been named as the first winner of the BBC’s Caroline Aherne Bursary.
Willan beat hundreds of other comics to win the prize, which was launched last year in memory of Caroline Aherne, the popular comedy star and writer who died in 2016.
Sophie Willan has been out all night celebrating her nomination for the
lastminute.com Edinburgh Comedy Awards and her voice has become a husky squawk.
Branded is her follow up to last year’s On Record, based around the social worker reports written about her as a child in care.
This year Willan responds to the labels which are often placed on her, such as ‘northern’, ‘working class’ and ‘f
Reviewed by Claire Smith.
Another week, another comedy competition. The Magners New Act 2015 was the last gig of this year’s Greenwich Comedy Festival and looks set to be another regular staging post for ambitious comedians. It also had the added of attraction of boasting a short line-up. There were only six finalists, chosen via both live heat and online poll, meaning that there was no chance for audience giggle fatigue to set in.
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