In this edition of the podcast I am chatting with Lee Pressman who talks about his career writing for children's television. This is the first time I have interviewed someone who has entirely written for kids TV rather than appear on it.
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In this chat we discuss Lee's career beginnings in the early 1980's, writing for shows such as Play Away and Rainbow. In the mid 80's he formed a writing partnership with Grant Cathro, where they created a number of shows for the next 15 years such as T-Bag, Spatz, Mike and Angelo, Cone Zone and Polterguests. All of these shows are discussed including how they came about and why Mike and Angelo survived the loss of Thames Television but T-Bag and Spatz did not.
We also talk about Lee's writing work since the 2000's which has included Shaun the Sheep, Thomas and Friends and Fireman Sam.
Enjoy this interview, some really interesting anecdotes are shared!
Also a big thanks to VideotapeFTW on Youtube who made this interview possible.
