One year after his hit Channel 4 series Big Boys finished its three-season run, creator and writer Jack Rooke reflected on the show, his approach to writing comedy and what’s next.
Speaking at Dublin’s Storyhouse screenwriting festival, Rooke said that while the series, which was based on his own Edinburgh Fringe shows, drew on his personal experiences, he found a liberty in exploring the fictional elements when writing the story for television.
“While it was an inquiry into the past, half of the show exists as a separate formation of characters and it is a sitcom,” he said. “It’s still a 23-minute Channel 4 comedy and so I was able to separate from the two. My line of work really informed all of the narrative device, but the fun bit for me and the skills that I learned were about writing classic copy and not just being completely confined by own
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