The Cut
We have just added a new script to our script archive:
The Cut - Series 3, Episode 1 by Al Smith.
Here's Al to give some background on the series and the unique role the audience plays in shaping its storylines.
Al Smith
What is "The Cut"? It's a show about a bunch of teenagers doing their best to fall in and out of love with each other in London. It's pretty much my teenage experience: I struggled for years to try to get a girl to look at me, and failed nearly all of the time. I'm still failing.
It is also a kind of hybrid drama - it's born both online, and broadcast on television. Every weekday at 5:10pm, a new five minute episode is uploaded online on The Cut website, and every Saturday, those five weekday-episodes are broadcast as one 25 minute omnibus on Ö÷²¥´óÐã2 at noon.
Most of our storylines are suggested by our audience, and we have a very close relationship with them through our blog and through our . The gap between scripting, production and broadcast is very short, so we can be more reactive to their suggestions than most telly - we try to make our audience feel as big a part of the show as possible.
My job is to oversee the writing of the show - I have a small team of writers, so I spend a lot of time planning story arcs and script editing, and occasionally I write an episode of my own. Here is the episode I wrote to open Series 3 and here's a link to watch it on iPlayer. We killed one of the stars of the show as the cliff at the end of Series 2, so it's pretty heavy going at first. Still, I hope you enjoy it.
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