Blog posts by year and monthNovember 2018
Posts (6)
Mrs Wilson - Writing the story for the screen
Anna Symon is a screenwriter and former journalist and documentary maker. She explains how she adapted the true story of Alison Wilson (actor Ruth Wilson's grandmother) for ±«Óãtv One, working from a combination of written memoirs, memories and research.
CBeebies Residential
Recently we took a group of eight writers off to the beautiful Derbyshire countryside for a residential with the focus on writing for the CBeebies pre-school audience. Joanne Lau reports back...
Killing Eve - from Book to Screen
Luke Jennings is the author of the original Villanelle novellas which inspired the hit ±«Óãtv series Killing Eve. We spoke to him to find out about seeing his work brought to the screen, working with screenwriter Phoebe Waller-Bridge and to get a few hints about Series Two.
Motivation - why it's essential to a compelling script
Robin Taylor is part of our script-reading team. He explains the different types of character motivation needed as part of any compelling script and why your script will fail without them.
Felix Dexter Bursary recipients announced
We're delighted to announce the two writers who have been awarded the second Felix Dexter Bursary with ±«Óãtv Comedy.
Writing TV Drama
Jesse Schwenk is part of our Drama Room writer development group for 2018. He looks back at the group's recent two-day workshop on writing TV Drama and shares loads of useful advice and information he picked up during the days.