A widowed mother runs her household on one rule — nothing is replaced until it is completely dead — so every failed appliance gets salvaged from the garage and every patch quietly breaks something bigger, while the money she refuses to spend sits in a tin behind the flour.
Delia Marsh, forty-four, is a hospital porter and the only adult in the house. Her husband Ray died two years ago; his life insurance paid out a lump sum that is still in the bank, untouched, because she has decided it belongs to the kids’ future and not to this house. That decision hardened into a house rule her children call the Twenty-Dollar Rule: nothing is replaced until it is completely dead, and nothing is completely dead until Delia has personally watched it die. So the freezer runs on a strap, the washer runs on a bolt it was never built with, and the boiler ticks like a clock with one hand. Her son Ellis, twelve, is the family engineer, which is to say he improvises with whatever is in the garage and never mentions which appliance he took it from. Her daughter Ruth, sixteen, documents all of it in a spreadsheet called Structural Optimism. What nobody expects, including Delia, is that the house keeps working — and that a buyer’s agent named Priya has booked an inspection for the end of the month.
What the package contains
- Complete series bible: logline, premise, setting and story engine
- World rules written as hard story constraints
- Character bible – 5 roles, each with a stated voice and a stated arc
- Relationship map
- Three-act structure with act-by-act episode ranges
- Turning points mapped to episode numbers
- Episode hook map for episodes 1-10: the closing beat of each episode
- Three written scene samples
- Production notes: cast, sets, key props, budget tier, schedule estimate
- Marketing copy you may reuse on your own platforms
Series facts
- 60 episodes at 60-90 seconds per episode
- Genre: Family & Neighbours Humor
- Vertical 9:16 format, shot for a phone first
- Production tier: Low
- Board 4 episodes per week with 2 boarders; line art 3 days per episode, colour 2, composite 1. 60 episodes in 12 weeks with a 5-person team
Production notes
- Cast: 8 speaking roles, 4 principal (2 female, 2 male) and 4 supporting
- Sets and locations: 3 standing sets: kitchen, garage parts wall, front driveway; 2 swing locations (hallway, back garden)
- Key props: Freezer door handle, bike inner tube, gateless carabiner, cash tin, masking-tape parts wall, folded takeaway menus, wooden ruler, labelled bolt tins
- Budget tier: Low – one interior build plus a garage wall covers the whole season
Format note: this is a complete development package for a vertical comedy series, not a finished shooting script. Episodes 1-5 carry full dialogue and a shot-by-shot board; from episode 6 the budget and the hook map carry the beats and you write in your own register.
Delivery and licence
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