Blog posts by year and monthMay 2018
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Announcing the Drama Room writers for 2018
We're delighted to announce the 15 writers who will be joining the Drama Room writer development group for 2018. This six month scheme encourages and develops the best in new drama writing and gives the writers the opportunity to build strong connections with producers to help them gain ±«Óãtv broa...
Writing a Good Comedy Character - Mind the Reality Gap
While we're in the midst of reading the lastest Comedy script submissions it seemed like a good time to ask one of the script-reading team to share some pointers on creating memorable comedy characters.
Writing Funny When You're Not Feeling Funny
James Bugg is a comedy writer and former recipient of the ±«Óãtv Radio Comedy Writer's Bursary where he was a staff writer between 2013 and 2014. As part of Mental Health Awareness Week he explains how he has wrestled with depression and OCD while working as a comedy writer.
Doctors - Mental Health Awareness Week
To mark Mental Health Awareness Week (8th - 15th May) the ±«Óãtv's Doctors will air a week of episodes looking at mental health in our communities, the strain it can have on our emergency services, and how mental health issues can affect us all. We spoke to the writer of two episodes, Andrew Cornish.