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LLOYD STANTON Cont/D LLOYD STANTON DRAMA & DOCUMENTARIES Redemption Road – Feature Film. Great British film Co and Spice Factory. Black comedy about three socially maladjusted men on a picaresque adventure. Featuring John Thomson, Mark Benton and Rachel Stirling Garyʼs Golden Boots - BBC1. Six part prime-time landmark series following history of the World Cup through the ʻgolden bootsʼ. Presented by Gary Lineker and featuring a host of international footballing legends in over twelve countries. Captain V – C4. Experimental Sci-Fi Comedy show with Kevin Eldon, Matt Lucas, Justin Edwards, David Farnsby. Paramount Comedy Channel – Interstistials and bumpers for Channel featuring Matt Lucas, Paul Kay, Keith Allen 30 Years Of Python – Paramount Comedy Channel. Specially commissioned documentary celebrating anniversary with all (living) Monty Python team performing and presented by Jonathon Ross. Top Banana – Discovery Channel. Documentary following the extraordinary lives of scaffolders and the characters that populate the business. (Euro-Aim & International Documentary Festival screening) 24 hrs in London – C4. Two sections from groundbreaking documentary project recording stories of London throughout twenty four hours. Glam Metal Detectives – BBC2. Highly acclaimed seven part comedy series featuring Doon Mackichen, Gary Beadle, Phil Cornwell. Sketches and inserts. The Bearded Wonder – BBC - R4ʼs ubiquitous cricket scorer featured in a documentary about Test Match Special, interviews; John Major, David Gower. Street Cricket – Ten Sports/PIA - History of Pakistan cricket interviewing the most celebrated cricketers across Pakistan and South Asia. Emerati – Series on Emerati culture and life for Dubai One. Cont/d. COMMERCIALS Including:- Orange & Blackcurrant Tango (Creative Circle, TVA Arrow), Nissan (International Award), Bosch, Micro Noodles, Ross Oriental Express, Brains SA, BBCi, C.O.I (inc. Five-a-Day, Child Accounts), Tamweel, Red Crescent (Creative Review – Creative Future Director with retrospective show) PROMOS Including; The Spice Girls (with England Utd) , Echo & the Bunnymen, Squeeze, Solid Gold Chartbusters WRITER Including; Redemption Road – Co-writer feature length script. Nude with Haddock – C4. Co-writer with Stephen Fry Glam Metal Detectives – BBC2. Co-writer seven part broken comedy series. 10 Best Sitcomʼs – BBC1. Writer ʻOne Foot in the Graveʼ special. Rowlandʼs TV drunks – C4. ʻbest of showʼ with Rowland Rivron and guests. The Keyman – Portobello Pictures. Feature length script. The Larches – BBC1. Co-writer with Rowland Rivron COPYWRITER Agency & Clients inc; Big Alʼs Creative Emporium Bisol John Hollingsworth King UK Maverick Mark Warner The Groucho Club Viral Factory ______________________________________________________________ Lloyd Stanton UKM: 07958 700 178 UAE:+971 507 596 530 EML: [email protected] Lloyd Stanton Resume (for comedy.fm) Lloyd was educated in London, Paris and New York and after attending Art School in London went to work as a Photographers Assistant in New York and then in Europe. He began making short films for himself and got a job with “The Comic Strip”; The group included Peter Richardson, French and Saunders, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. After working on a number of Comic Strip productions he helped create and write a new BBC2 comedy series “Glam Metal Detectives” whose cast included Doon Mackichen (Smack the Pony) and Phil Cornwell (Stella St, Deadringers). Lloyd then worked with Phil MacIntrye (Phoenix Nights, Maybe Baby) and Ben Elton, but returned to run the Comic Strip Ltd, reducing the companyʼs outgoings by 70%, restructuring the finances and creating an original alternative income stream. He was then asked to set up and run a ʻguerillaʼ PR company by Terence Conran for his Storehouse Group. As a director at Paramount Comedy Channel he got to work with Matt Lucas (Little Britain), Paul Kay (Dennis Pennis), Keith Allen (Robin Hood) and make a special anniversary programme with his comedy heroes; Michael Palin, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Eric Idle of Monty Python. Lloyd has collaborated with Stephen Fry and Rowland Rivron on writing projects and for his film “Redemption Road” cast amongst others John Thomson (Fast Show, Cold Feet), Pauline Quirke (Birds of a Feather) and Mark Benton (Early Doors, City Lights). More recently Lloyd has worked with a new generation of comedy talent including Justin Edwards (Perrier Newcomer Winner), Simon Farnaby (Spoons, Mighty Boosh) and Kevin Eldon (Brass Eye, Nighty Night). Inbetween comedy Lloyd has made a number of Documentaries, including Top Banana for Discovery Channel which was screened at SIDF and other festivals and a seven part series for BBC1 and worked with C4. He has shot across the globe from Pakistan to Chile and was based for a period in the Middle East. He has also presented a three hour live talk Radio show and been a ʻculturalʼ contributor for Rowland Rivronʼs LBC show. Lloyd has recently created a web-radio based comedy channel; comedy.fm – which aims to commission around five hundred hours of original comedy a year as well as ʻuser-generatedʼ content and interactive comedy events for both experienced and aspiring comedy writers and performers. He lives in London and Dorset with his partner, ex-Groucho Club MD Mary-lou Sturridge and pair of Greyhounds. .
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