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From Time Travel To Parallel Dimensions – Jamie Mathieson's ALT

One of my favourite screen outpourings of time travel of late has been Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel with Chris O'Dowd which rather showed up the more recent Richard Curtis time travel film, About Time as being, well, a little bit dull, really. Which is a bad thing for a film about time travel.

FAQ About TT was written by Jamie Mathieson, also writing on the UK original version of Being Human, and who I bumped into that the Magic Words With Alan Moore evening a few weeks ago. So, you know, a good egg.

And now he's switched from time travel, vampires, werewolves and ghosts to… parallel dimensions.

"There are thousands of worlds out there. All with a version of you and a version of me. And someone is trying to kill us. All of us…"

Imagine: that mate you dumped months ago because he's a tool, rings you out of the blue and asks for help. You go round and he's tripping. Banging on about parallel worlds and killers with swords and you're not really listening to be honest. And the next thing you know the world's changed. Literally changed. Your girlfriend, who was kind of the love of your life, no longer even recognises you. Dead relatives are suddenly alive again. And someone who looks just like you is living your life. Badly.

E4 has commissioned a brand new drama pilot ALT, (1X60'), written by Jamie Mathieson (Being Human, FAQ About Time Travel) and directed by Ben Caron (Derren Brown, My Mad Fat Diary, Tommy Cooper), which will TX on E4 in Spring 2014. It's a mind-bending and hilarious tumble down a 21^st century rabbit hole where the imaginary becomes real, where the unlikely becomes the inevitable and where the worst case scenario is actually only just the beginning…

ALT stars Gethin Anthony (Game of Thrones) as 24-year-old pragmatic everyman Danny who's about to move in with his girlfriend Suzy, played by Roxanne McKee (Game of Thrones, Hollyoaks). Craig Roberts (Submarine) also stars as Danny's stoner and waster ex-best friend Milo. Suddenly finding themselves transported to a parallel universe where they encounter different versions of themselves, the pair soon realise dangerous assassins played by Jason Flemyng (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, X Men: First Class) and Arsher Ali (Four Lions) seem intent on hunting them down and killing them. With Danny desperate to get back to his own Suzy before it's too late and he loses her forever, they embark on a series of darkly comic and dangerous adventures in an effort to get back home.

Warning: ALT may contain; swords, guns, doubles, corpses, bickering, bitterness, broken friendship, love, drugs, sex and quantum physics.

Commissioner Beth Willis says "ALT is a mind-bendingly funny pilot for E4 from the pen of Jamie Mathieson and directed by the brilliant Ben Caron. Milo and Danny are wonderful and useless and loveable. Expect the unexpected – and lots of laughs."

"We're so pleased to bring Jamie's hugely inventive and hilarious world to life, and are lucky to have such an incredibly talented creative team and cast – all of whom have given us a bold new show full of fun, wit and adventure" says Damien Timmer from Mammoth Screen.

Commissioned by Beth Willis, and made by Mammoth Screen for E4, ALT goes into production in January 2014 and will TX on E4 later in the Spring. Toby Welch (Skins) is Producer and Executive Producers are Rebecca Keane, Preethi Mavahalli and Damien Timmer.

So there you go. Odds are its going to be a lot better than Sliders…

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