Amelia Dimoldenberg

That is something that has always been my interest.

And with Chicken Shop Day, I always feel like I've been telling the story of a girl who wants to fall in love and is unlucky in love and...

and keeps going on these dates and maybe one day they'll it will be she'll get a second date and I think that's what has really kind of pushed me through like having the show for so long it's because I've really understood that narrative and I've really loved developing other scripted projects that I've been doing for like numerous years now but you know those things take so long and it's been incredible to be able to like work within the online space and be able to have an idea and not have to wait to be commissioned I think that's probably the best thing about

the democratization of the internet is it's allowed for so many more ideas to become realities and bypass all of the gatekeepers.

Now your only gatekeeper is the algorithm.

So I'm developing a TV series with the BBC, which has kind of been an ongoing project for many years that I'm so excited about.

And then I have a movie in development as well with Amazon MGM and Orion.

pictures and that's kind of like my own rom-com and you play the lead right yeah yeah I'm gonna be playing myself it's like the chicken shop date movie and do you find love at the end well you have to watch to find out I hope so I hope so I hope so too

I mean, it's a rom-com, so... It'd be a terrible rom-com if it ended badly for you.

I mean, if it's not happening in real life, we better make it happen in the movie.

So, yeah.

And then, you know, I directed a music video earlier this year, and I loved that experience.

I'm sorry to be a 40-year-old, but I am.

Yeah, it was for an amazing artist called Maisie Peters, and I just...

loved the experience and i obviously direct chicken shop day and i always have but it's very different when you are really turning your hand to directing something with a narrative i just love the experience so much of being part of a team collaborating with different heads of department and understanding how many parts are involved in creating something

And I loved it.

So I can't wait to direct more.

I would love to do that.

I have an idea for a short film I want to do.

But yeah, Chicken Shop Day has taken up a lot of my time.