Now something of a veteran of the , stand-up Steve Bugeja is back this year with his latest show, Shiny. The star and co-creator of ITV2 series Buffering tells the tale of achieving his dream of making the sitcom with his best friend, Iain Stirling, and whether or not the experience was all worth it. Here, he answers our .
.. I’m really looking forward to it.
The Fringe is my favourite time of the year and I haven’t been this excited about one of my shows in years. I’m also overdue my fix of Red Box noodles and City Cafe breakfasts. My new show Shiny is all about chasing, and achieving my dream of making a sitcom.
I co-created two series of a sitcom called with my friend and Edinburgh boy for ITV2. When I got into comedy making a sitcom was all I wanted to do, and now I’ve done it, it’s given me a completely fresh perspective on success and chasing your dreams. A perspective that’s shifted how I see success, failure and whether we should bother chasing our dreams at all.
And that’s what the show explores. It was a literal dream come true. Even now it still doesn’t feel real that I got to do it.
Going into a big TV studio where they filmed James Bond and Disney films, seeing hundreds of people working on something I’d written was incredible. Every day I’d sit behind the monitor with the director and watch brilliant actors bring my words to life. Then when it came out I got to go on 5 Live and talk about it, I watched The One Show trail it, I saw an advert fo.
