Derren Litten

Right… big decision has to be made for this blog. What things do I put in and what things do I leave out? Something happened today which is potentially huge. Well, not potentially, it is huge… It's amazing, it's life changing and it has to do with my job. I guess it's the most amazing thing that's happened in my career so far next to the success of Catherine's show. But this isn't strictly a diary, it's more of a discipline to write creatively every day (which I tend to do anyway). But I can't really leave something like this out because, well, as I said, it's pretty immense. Basically my comedy series (I hesitate from using the word 'sitcom') 'Benidorm' is going to be made. Can't quite believe it. Had the meeting this morning and it's all systems go; Spain here we come. How did all this happen? Of course I know exactly how it's happened, my friend Catherine asked me to write for her TV sketch show and without her doing that I would have never been in the position to hawk my ideas for television shows to the most powerful people in British TV today. In fact, I didn't even have to hawk my ideas, I was invited to do it. After The CT Christmas Special Geoffrey Perkins at Tiger Aspect gave me a blank commission; to write a 30 min TV pilot episode of anything I liked. Instead of choosing something easy like a studio based sitcom with 4 or 5 characters I decided to write a comedy that would have to be shot entirely on location in Spain with a big cast. Apart from the actual work, be it acting or writing, I've never made much of an effort in any other direction; I mean networking, promoting myself, etc. They told us at drama school that we couldn't just leave and wait for the phone to ring, well I wouldn't advise it, but I did. Sometimes I feel very guilty for the amount of luck I've relied on to compensate my astonishing lack of ambition. Fuck it, if I won the lottery I wouldn't complain. Viva Espania!