The Sunday Standings – 80 Episodes – Bible + Shot Board

A retired floor manager moves in with his daughter’s family, four generations under one roof, and nails a magnet scoreboard to the fridge that scores every contribution anyone makes to the household and is read aloud every Sunday at eight to a kitchen that claims not to be playing.

Gus Okonkwo, seventy-one, retired after thirty-four years as a floor manager, moved into his daughter Maria’s house when his knees stopped managing a staircase of his own. On his first morning he drilled four screws into the fridge door and posted the Standings: four categories, a highlighter legend and eleven magnets. Every contribution to the household is scored — dishes, bins, an unsolicited piece of good advice — but only if Gus personally witnessed it, which is why the whole family now does chores in the same room as him. Maria works four nights a week and is in fourth place. Theo, her sixteen-year-old son, keeps a private notebook of his own averages and is in first. Vi, Maria’s sister, moved back in after a collapse with a suitcase and a plan and has been second for six weeks without anyone seeing her do anything. Pearl, Gus’s mother, is ninety-three, has never once been scored, and is the only person in the house the board has never managed to measure. What nobody expects is that Vi’s totals do not add up, that Theo is forging readings, and that the board has a date written on the back of it that nobody has turned over yet.

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

• 80 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 3 boarders; line art 3 days per episode, colour 2, composite 1. 80 episodes in 15 weeks with a 6-person team

Production notes

• Cast: 9 speaking roles, 5 principal (3 female, 2 male), 4 supporting
• Sets and locations: 2 standing sets: kitchen with the fridge door, upstairs landing; 3 swing locations (living room, back garden, corner shop)
• Key props: Magnet scoreboard with 24 magnets, cordless drill, highlighter legend, private averages notebook, oversized marker, ink pad, dog bowl, mortgage letter
• Budget tier: Low – two interiors and one fridge door carry all 80 episodes

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

• Instant download. One plain-text package file, no software required.
• Licensed for development, adaptation and production of the material described above.
• Adaptation, translation and sub-licensing require the extended licence supplied with the All-Access Master Library.
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