Mockumentary pilot | approx. 30 min
Knock Knock: It's The Bailiffs
A comedy take on enforcement TV, inspired by the pressure-cooker world of doorstep debt shows and the characters who should never have been given a camera crew.
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Rejected Productions
Proof-of-concept TV, comedy pilots, mockumentary shows and short films from the North East of England.
We make compact, character-led projects designed to prove an idea fast: sharp comedy, awkward documentary worlds, festive trouble, tiny horrors, and one-minute nights out that should probably have ended earlier.
Current work
The Slate
Scripted comedy series | 5 x approx. 10 min
Functional Rejects
A five-episode proof-of-concept comedy series about people trying to hold their lives together with the wrong tools, worse instincts, and just enough heart to keep going.
Watch episode 01 View all episodes Visit websiteChristmas short
The Big Man
When a depressed father captures an intruder claiming to be Santa Claus, a Christmas break-in becomes a darkly comic reckoning with grief, belief, and one impossible wish.
Watch shortHorror short | 1 min
Bed Monsters
A late-night scream sends a father into his daughter's bedroom, where a familiar childhood fear becomes something far more unsettling.
Watch shortShort film | in development
It's The Drink Talking
When a recovering alcoholic takes his first drink after months of sobriety, the booze starts talking back.
What begins as friendly advice from a cheeky can of lager becomes a chorus of manipulative voices leading him towards disaster in this darkly funny, surprisingly heartfelt story about addiction, relapse, and redemption.
Landscape TikTok comedy | in development
London Nights
A short-form crime-comedy series about London Knight, a formerly homeless man whose street-level instincts make him an unlikely detective consultant.
Each series follows one full case, told in punchy one-minute episodes, mixing sharp mystery, oddball suspects, and a funny, mismatched partnership with Keith as London proves the city's most invisible man might also be its best investigator.
Public releases
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What we do
Small proofs for bigger worlds.
Rejected Productions develops and produces short-form screen projects that can stand alone while proving the shape of something larger. The work leans toward comedy, dark comedy, mockumentary, and genre ideas with a human pulse.
The aim is simple: make the idea watchable, shareable, and easy to imagine at full scale.
- Based in Sunderland, England
- Focused on Proof-of-concept TV and shorts
- Genres Comedy, dark comedy, mockumentary, horror
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