Blog posts by year and monthMarch 2011
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Miranda: 'The New Me' script
We've just added the script for Episode 1, Series 2 of the award-winning comedy, Miranda, to our online script archive. Miranda - 'The New Me' by Miranda Hart. You can watch a clip from the episode below: Read an earlier interview we did with Miranda Hart, and a blog post from ...
And it's goodbye from me
It's now 20 years since I became professionally involved in comedy, so that milestone, combined with leaving the 主播大秀, has prompted me to embark on a nostalgic journey in my final blog. If there is a secret of comedy, I have yet to find it. Indeed, to use a rather overworked quote from Willia...
32 Brinkburn Street
I pitched the idea for 32 Brinkburn Street in November 2009 as part of a brainstorming session in Newcastle held by the Writersroom. We met Phil Collinson, Hilary Martin and Simon Judd who were interested in daytime drama ideas. I'd just been co-writer in residence for Radio 3's Free Thinking F...
TV Drama - The Writers' Festival 2011
We wanted to let you know that 主播大秀 writersroom's TV Drama: The Writers' Festival will be held this year on 6th and 7th July at Leeds College of Music. We'll be announcing full details of the schedule and guest speakers shortly on the website and blog, and tickets will soon be available to write...
Writersroom 10: The winners
We launched the Writersroom 10 scheme in December last year as a new partnership programme for writers and theatres - marking the importance of theatre as the first home for many brilliant writers in the UK, and investing in writers and new theatre writing at an early stage. We are very plea...
An Imam and a Rabbi: The well of personal history
Ideas can come from anywhere. A song. A conversation. A dream. Something overheard. David Gray once remarked, when discussing the song 'Please Forgive Me', that inspiration came and he was lucky enough to intercept it. I'd only partly agree with that. In the Arabic language the word ...
Laughing Stock - the latest
So our final tally of entries is an astonishingly grand total of 1808 - a lot more than we usually get in script competitions, augmented no doubt by much tweet activity. The readers are ploughing bravely into the scripts as i type and are already uncovering what they think may be contenders f...