Blog posts by year and monthDecember 2009
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Newsjack Series Two
Topical sketch comedy series Newsjack is returning to Radio 7 in the new year, and once more they have an open submission policy, meaning you can just send them your funnies. Here's a few links to people talking about writing sketches, to get you in the mood. Jocelyn Jee Esien and Gareth E...
Writers Academy 20
What Happens Next? Last week we finished the classroom part of the course, and the writers now all go off to start their commissions on the shows next month. They'll be writing Casualty, EastEnders, Holby and Doctors for most of the next year. These are real commissions for which they're pa...
Scotland Writes - the results continued
Following on from yesterday's announcement, I'm pleased to be able to say that Neil Hepburn has grabbed a well-deserved runner-up prize of £500 for his script "From Plato To Pinkerton". So many congratulations to Neil. We asked Neil and overall winner Erica Munro their thoughts on Scotland W...
Scotland Writes - the results
I'm pleased to be able to announce the winner of our recent Scotland Writes competition. We were looking for a 60-minute pilot episode for an original television series or serial reflecting contemporary Scotland. Erica Munro will receive a £1,500 bursary, for her script The Law According To ...
bushgreen
Here's an interesting thing for those of us who write plays: A new site called bushgreen. It's from the Bush Theatre, and is a sort of social-networky-thing for writers, with added publishing and submission gubbins. That sounds a bit complicated. Break it down. It's an online community ...
Belfast, Scene and Heard, Big Top
Unintended consequences can often be good consequences, and such was the case when an unexpected back problem meant that I couldn't get over to Belfast for a combined College/±«Óãtv Northern Ireland workshop for writers from the island of Ireland. Rather than sticking to my structure scripts, ...
Interviews: Lots of other people (not by us this time)
TV Guide has interviewed some of the best TV showrunners of the decade. (Well, the best showrunners of US TV, anyway. No nods for Russell T Davies, frexample. But never mind...) Really interesting interviews with Shonda Rhymes, David Simon, Dick Wolf... Hell, I'm not going to list 'em a...
Interviews: Miranda Hart, Stephen Poliakoff, Jane Wright.
We've got some new interviews on the site. Huzzah! There's some Q&A action with Stephen Poliakoff and Jane Wright, talking about Stephen's new film Glorious 39, in cinemas now. Then we have an interview with the lovely Miranda Hart, whose new sitcom Miranda is on ±«Óãtv 2 now. You can catch u...