![]() You’ve done your research! Well as I say, the HIT Creative Department – helmed at that time by the wonderful Jocelyn Stevenson – had decided to hire and train a couple of newbie script editors. How did you come to be involved with the company, and what was the first position you held with them? You joined HIT Entertainment in July 2002, prior to the takeover of Thomas in September of that year. And I was lucky enough to bag one of those positions. I was really in the right place at the right time, just as the HIT Creative Department (as it was then known) had decided to take a gamble and hire a couple of very inexperienced script editors. I would attribute a cosmic alignment of the stars and an incredible stroke of luck. ![]() ![]() What would you attribute to being your first ‘big break’ into the industry? That’s what really got me thinking about making a career in the storytelling/script writing business. So after I finished at university, and whilst I kind of bummed around not quite knowing what to do with myself, I was spending time with him brainstorming some of the scripts that he was working on. Where did you gain your earliest experience? In terms of television, I think a lot of my influences came from the big screen – the early Spielberg movies (I will happily spend hours arguing that ET is the greatest movie of all time), anything touched by the hand of Jim Henson. I went through a big comics phase when I was a kid – I was an avid collector of the Beano and Buster and those classic British comics of the 70s and 80s. I grew up reading Roald Dahl and Asterix. Sam, what authors or television series inspired you to become a writer? Have you always had an interest in stories? ![]()
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