Trackside
Created by Berri George
Written by Berri George and Travis Carter
(Contemporary urban drama with a great soundtrack: 6×60′, 12×30′ or 60×3′)
Two lonely misfits from different sides of the tracks find a common language in train graffiti writing forging a thrill-seeking escape from their claustrophobic lives. But while they avoid the British Transport Police can they avoid betrayal, fame and the personal demons that threaten to tear them apart?
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SERIES OVERVIEW
A gritty coming of age story set in the allusive but dangerous underworld of illegal train tagging across London’s rail and tube networks. Mixing a hybrid of live action and vivid animation with a heart thumping sound track we hurtle at point blank range into the chaotic lives of our adreneline-fuelled danger addicts.
A gritty coming of age story set in the allusive but dangerous underworld of illegal train tagging across London’s rail and tube networks. Mixing a hybrid of live action and vivid animation with a heart thumping sound track we hurtle at point blank range into the chaotic lives of our adreneline-fuelled danger addicts.
ABOUT THE WRITERS
Berri George is a London-born dramatist now living by the seaside. She has featured on the BBC’s Hot Talent List and is an alumna of ITV’s Original Voices, the Channel Four Playwright Award, BBC Drama Room, BBC Studios Writers’ Academy, Royal Court/Theatre Local & Orange Tree Theatre invitation playwright groups. She has written for Coronation Street, EastEnders and Casualty, and is the lead creator of Trackside (inspired by her award winning play, Shadow Kingdoms) – a graffiti-based coming-of-age TV drama (live action/animation hybrid) recently optioned by C21 Studios.
She joined the Father Brown Cosy Crime Cohort and had original projects in development with Various Artists Limited/BBC Studios, alongside two original audio dramas available on Audible. Her short film TITS (BBC Writersroom/BBC Three) remains one of the most-watched films in The Break anthology. Her theatre work has been staged across many of the UK’s leading new writing venues, including Manchester Royal Exchange, Theatre503, High Tide, Talawa and the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Genre-bending and proudly female-focused, she enjoys creating gothic, thematically colourful worlds full of lovable rogues and relatable misfits.
Travis Carter, Londoner. Having spent much of his youth immersed in theatre and productions, he’s had the privilege of being mentored by OBE playwright Roy Williams, an experience that shaped his early creative journey. His breakthrough came when his debut script, My Generation, was optioned by independent production company Timeworks Film. He then went to work with the BBC Young Writers Room, where he developed a animated television series titled Soul Catchers. He went on to co-write the crime drama Urban Angels and optioned a feature length film The Bag with Laurie Cook’s production company, NewScope Films. In 2023, Travis was named one of six finalists in the Studio21 Drama Series Script Competition for Trackside, a project he co-wrote which was subsequently optioned by Studio21. He is currently writing Bacchus, a television thriller series. Travis lives by a phrase he first heard in Marvel’s Luke Cage: “Never backwards, always forward, always.”
