Career
Together they gained six British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations, as well as many other awards for their work together. They first met as presenters on the British Broadcasting Corporation children"s programme Playbus, where they presented the Tent Stop together. From there they went on the write and appear in the pantomimes at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, from 1991 up to 2000.
These pantomimes are still performed all over the United Kingdom today by Imagine Theatre.
During that time they created and produced many of the United Kingdom"s favourite television shows for children, including The Tweenies, Fun Song Factory, Boo! and BB3B! Later, as Wish Films, they also created "Jim Jam and Sunny" for Independent Television. Brenton also directed Coronation Street and Emmerdale in the nineties, and in 2010 he co-wrote and directed the very successful Doctor Who live tour, "The Monsters Are Coming" starring Nigel Planer, a sixteen-piece rock band playing the music of Murray Gold and playing in arenas all over the United Kingdom. Will has also written books for children, his first titles Claude and "Elephant White" being released in 2011–2012, published by Egmont and Templar respectively. He has also developed and produced "Melody" a show for Cbeebies about a partially sighted girl and the stories she imagines when listening to classial music
This went into a second series in the Autumn of 2014. Lauchlan left Wish Films in 2009, and Will ran the company with Helen Cadwallader.
They went on to produce a television adaptation of Mick Inkpen"s "Wibbly Pig" books (nominated for a Gemini in Canada) and An Vrombaut"s "Dear Dragon" books, which have appeared on Disney United Kingdom as "Florrie"s Dragons".