how to enter
Entries
Subject to the terms and conditions set out below, Channel 4 invites individual writers or teams of writers to submit:
(a) 3 minutes worth of material for a comic topical monologue;
(b) 3 sketches for a non-topical comedy programme (sketches of no more than three minutes each in length)
Mark entries "Channel 4 Comedy Writing Initiative" and post them to 124 Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2TX or e-mail newcomedywriters@channel4.co.uk. Please include your name, address and all contact details in your entry.
This is an opportunity for writers who are not established in the field of writing for television, but if you have done the odd thing in the past do let us know and include an account of your work with your entry.
Entries may be submitted at any time from 16th May 2005 and must be received on or before 15th July 2005. A shortlist of entries chosen by Channel 4 commissioners will be reviewed by a panel of comedians, writers and producers in order to select a winner of the Channel 4 Comedy Writing Initiative. The winner will be contacted by Channel 4 during the week of 15th August 2005 and there will be a public announcement at a special event to be held at the Edinburgh Television Festival.
Channel 4 will, over a 12 month period, provide that the winner is given the opportunity to receive writing commissions from production companies for Channel 4 television projects up to a minimum total value of £20,000 (exclusive VAT).
Terms and Conditions
1. These terms and conditions apply to any entry submitted in connection with the Channel 4 Comedy Writing Initiative (the "Competition") and are the Competition rules ("Rules"), which will also be posted on www.channel4.com/newcomedywriters (if you visit this site then the Rules will also incorporate the Channel4.com Terms and Conditions). Acceptance of the Rules is a condition of entry to the Competition and receipt of an entry by Channel 4 amounts to acceptance of the Rules.
2. The Competition is organised by Channel Four Television Corporation of 124 Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2TX ("Channel 4").
3. Channel 4 reserves the right to cancel or amend the Competition or these Rules at any time without prior notice. Any changes will be posted on www.channel4.com/newcomedywriters
Qualifying Entrants
4. To qualify to enter the Competition you must be a resident of the United Kingdom.
5. Employees of Channel 4 or any subsidiary or associated companies, agents or members of their families or households are not eligible to enter the Competition. Channel 4 reserves the right to verify the eligibility of all entrants.
6. Channel 4 assumes that by entering the Competition (and you warrant that) you have legal capacity to enter the Competition, are 18 or over and agree to the Rules and that all information submitted by you is true, current and complete.
Competition Entries
7. Only one entry per person/team of writers per Competition is allowed. Entries are made at an entrant's own expense and Channel 4 shall not be liable to reimburse any expenses in making an entry.
8. Competition entries must be made in the manner and by the closing date specified in the Entries section above. Failure to do so will disqualify the entry.
9. Proof of posting cannot be accepted as proof of delivery. Channel 4 cannot accept responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft, destruction, alteration of, or unauthorised access to entries, or entries lost or delayed.
10. No entries will be returned or copies provided and entrants are therefore advised to keep a copy of their entries.
11. Entrants must submit their own original work and agree that this will not infringe the copyright or any other rights of any third party and that entries will not contain defamatory or obscene material.
12. Channel 4 will not use the entries other than in order to select the winner of the Competition Winner
13. In all matters, the decision of the judging panel and Channel 4 shall be final and no correspondence or discussion shall be entered into.
14. The winner will be notified in the manner and within the time frame specified in the Entries section above. For the avoidance of doubt, Channel 4 will only contact the winner of the Competition and unsuccessful entrants will not be contacted.
15. The prize is non-transferable and there is no cash alternative.
16. Channel 4 reserves the right to use and reproduce an entrant's name and photograph for publicity purposes in any media.
Liability
17. The winner agrees that Channel 4's liability to procure writing commissions from production companies for the winner on Channel 4 television projects for the specified 12 month period (the start of such period to be notified to the winner by Channel 4) up to a minimum total value of £20,000 (exclusive of VAT) is to the extent that and on the basis that the winner is available to be engaged on writing commissions on a first call basis, has the capacity to be so engaged and will enter into writing agreements with production companies on terms to be approved by Channel 4.
18. Channel 4 cannot accept any responsibility for any damage, loss (including without limitation loss of publicity or opportunity to enhance reputation), injury or disappointment suffered by any entrant in connection with the Competition. Channel 4 is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software failure of any email or entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet, telephone lines or at any web site, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to entrant's or any other person's computer or mobile telephone related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in connection with the Competition. Nothing shall exclude Channel 4's liability for death or personal injury as a result of its negligence.
General
19. The Competition and the Rules will be governed by English law and any dispute between us shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
20. Channel 4 may assign the benefit of these Rules without your prior consent.
