Blog posts by year and monthApril 2011
Posts (6)
TV Drama - The Writers' Festival: Danny Brocklehurst
We're very pleased to announce that screenwriter Danny Brocklehurst will be speaking at this year's TV Drama - The Writers' Festival. Danny won a BAFTA for his work on Shameless and was lead writer on the third series. He has written on some of the biggest UK dramas of recent years includi...
Writers' Studio: Ayub Khan-Din and West is West
We recently held a special Writers' Studio Q&A session with West is West writer, Ayub Khan Dinn. Ayub answered questions from ±«Óãtv writersrooms' Kate Rowland, and an invited audience of writers, about the challenges involved in writing the sequel to East is East and the inspiration behind hi...
TV Drama - The Writers' Festival 2011: Bookings open
TV Drama: The Writers' Festival 2011 is now open for bookings to writers with a TV credit or commission. To apply for your place, visit the Writers' Festival page on our website, download and fill out the application form and send it to us at writersroom.events@bbc.co.uk with the subject 'T...
Waking the Dead
We've just uploaded a script from the last series of Waking the Dead: Waking the Dead, Series 9, Harbinger - Parts 1 & 2 by Ed Whitmore Read series producer Colin Wratten's post on the ±«Óãtv TV blog where he talks about the research and grisly special effects on Waking The Dead. Watch cli...
Writers Academy 26
Frequently Asked Questions The Writers Academy is now open for online applications from writers until 5th May. To apply go to the Writers Academy page on this site and click on the link. I thought I would just go through a few of the questions that regularly come up about the course: ...
Laughing Stock shortlist
We received an extremely high standard of entries for our Laughing Stock competition, so much so that the original shortlist had to be increased from 25 to 26 scripts. These are the writers/writing partnerships who were selected for the masterclass stage: Sarah Seth Jack Dickson Sarah Gl...