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theTVproject has been setup to give all wannabe writers a chance to showcase their talents and to hopefully make the step into professional writing an easier one. Anyone can write a one liner or a scene and a lot of people can write a full episode of a television show. But it takes a lot more to be able to write a whole series. The idea with this project is that we discover a team who can get together and write an 8 episode per season tv series. The chance is here for everyone to submit their work and hopefully enough will be of a high enough standard to include in the show.

All submissions will listed on the website, whether they make the final cut or not. We will be viewing the contributions carefully and editing them to create full episodes. Due to the nature of the project we expect to receive huge amounts of work so the piecing together of the works and the editing process will be an enormous task. We will therefore also be looking for help with editing process and wit any rewrites needed.

The first season of the series will be the hardest to get done but should become easier over time. The ultimate aim is to have a solid core team in place who will be able to write an episode on their own and also be able to edit together the numerous single contributions to create other full episodes. The core team will also be in place for editing and rewrites. The size of the team is entirely dependant on who shows the talent and dedication for the job at hand.

Once the first 8 episodes are in place we will begin work on the movie and the book. The same principle will apply with hopefully the core team being involved with these projects.

About us

Who are we? We are Stephen Breaks and Thomas Elison. Both of us have full time jobs in the city but have always had a passion for movies and television. In the mid to late 90's we both enjoyed numerous bit part roles in independent short films and television series. We started out as extras before working our ways into minor parts or into being crew members.

Having similar experience and similar ideas and aims we eventually decided to join forces to write, direct and produce our own low budget short films. Our first work "The Post Office" was an experimental black and white film about 3 youngsters who did an armed robbery on a post office in the north of England and about their post robbery celebrations. The film was set to a ambient house and techno soundtrack with all the dialogue via subtitles. It was a very cheap and nasty little film and thankfully was only ever shown late night on a couple of cable channels where nobody was likely to see it. Our second film "The Michelin Man" was a standard comedy which was well received despite its low budget and low production values. Again we only managed to have this shown on cable television which was a shame.

After completing our two short films we decided to go into hiatus and concentrate on our respective careers, wives, families, etc. As the years went by we had stayed in touch and always planned on doing one big film. The ideas flowed back and forth, the characters developed, the storylines evolved until we had a project too large for just the two of us yet too important to ignore or pass over to a third party. This project is what has evolved into what you see before you today as theTVproject.com

The initial priority of this project is the series, however the book and movie will become key components in the future, once the series is fully up and running.

About "Lessons Never Learned"

The title "Lessons Never Learned" came to us one drunken evening in the late 90's. When exactly and where exactly will forever remain a mystery and which one of us came up with the final name will also remain a mystery. But we had the title and both of us took it in different directions at first. Steve was initially going to write a book about a political activist in the 1980's. This character has become "Dave" in the series. Tom meanwhile was going to write an autobiography (of sorts) using the same title.
After further discussion and before the whole "The TV Project" came about, we had decided to write "Lessons Never Learned" as a film. The whole premise of the film has not changed one bit since this initial plan was formulated. The character(s), the setting, the skeleton of the film and the fact that the film will be a mini-sequal and film all in one has remained constant since it's conception. However over time the film gave way to a television series and over time this came back to a novel. Finally we came up with the final plan, the grand plan of a tv series/ series/ book tie in project. We realised soon enough that we had been talking so much and producing so little that we would never get all three or even one of the three produced without some form of incentive or without a serious kick up the backside. This has resulted in the combined product you see before you today.



The Series Info Characters Episodes Scenes The Ads Info Adverts The Extras Info Extras --- The Book Info Chapters --- The Movie Info Scenes ---	About theTVproject.com theTVproject has been setup to give all wannabe writers a chance to showcase their talents and to hopefully make the step into professional writing an easier one. Anyone can write a one liner or a scene and a lot of people can write a full episode of a television show. But it takes a lot more to be able to write a whole series. The idea with this project is that we discover a team who can get together and write an 8 episode per season tv series. The chance is here for everyone to submit their work and hopefully enough will be of a high enough standard to include in the show. All submissions will listed on the website, whether they make the final cut or not. We will be viewing the contributions carefully and editing them to create full episodes. Due to the nature of the project we expect to receive huge amounts of work so the piecing together of the works and the editing process will be an enormous task. We will therefore also be looking for help with editing process and wit any rewrites needed. The first season of the series will be the hardest to get done but should become easier over time. The ultimate aim is to have a solid core team in place who will be able to write an episode on their own and also be able to edit together the numerous single contributions to create other full episodes. The core team will also be in place for editing and rewrites. The size of the team is entirely dependant on who shows the talent and dedication for the job at hand. Once the first 8 episodes are in place we will begin work on the movie and the book. The same principle will apply with hopefully the core team being involved with these projects. About us Who are we? We are Stephen Breaks and Thomas Elison. Both of us have full time jobs in the city but have always had a passion for movies and television. In the mid to late 90's we both enjoyed numerous bit part roles in independent short films and television series. We started out as extras before working our ways into minor parts or into being crew members. Having similar experience and similar ideas and aims we eventually decided to join forces to write, direct and produce our own low budget short films. Our first work "The Post Office" was an experimental black and white film about 3 youngsters who did an armed robbery on a post office in the north of England and about their post robbery celebrations. The film was set to a ambient house and techno soundtrack with all the dialogue via subtitles. It was a very cheap and nasty little film and thankfully was only ever shown late night on a couple of cable channels where nobody was likely to see it. Our second film "The Michelin Man" was a standard comedy which was well received despite its low budget and low production values. Again we only managed to have this shown on cable television which was a shame. After completing our two short films we decided to go into hiatus and concentrate on our respective careers, wives, families, etc. As the years went by we had stayed in touch and always planned on doing one big film. The ideas flowed back and forth, the characters developed, the storylines evolved until we had a project too large for just the two of us yet too important to ignore or pass over to a third party. This project is what has evolved into what you see before you today as theTVproject.com The initial priority of this project is the series, however the book and movie will become key components in the future, once the series is fully up and running. About "Lessons Never Learned" The title "Lessons Never Learned" came to us one drunken evening in the late 90's. When exactly and where exactly will forever remain a mystery and which one of us came up with the final name will also remain a mystery. But we had the title and both of us took it in different directions at first. Steve was initially going to write a book about a political activist in the 1980's. This character has become "Dave" in the series. Tom meanwhile was going to write an autobiography (of sorts) using the same title. After further discussion and before the whole "The TV Project" came about, we had decided to write "Lessons Never Learned" as a film. The whole premise of the film has not changed one bit since this initial plan was formulated. The character(s), the setting, the skeleton of the film and the fact that the film will be a mini-sequal and film all in one has remained constant since it's conception. However over time the film gave way to a television series and over time this came back to a novel. Finally we came up with the final plan, the grand plan of a tv series/ series/ book tie in project. We realised soon enough that we had been talking so much and producing so little that we would never get all three or even one of the three produced without some form of incentive or without a serious kick up the backside. This has resulted in the combined product you see before you today.
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