Blog posts by year and monthSeptember 2017
Posts (7)
Literary Agents - why do you need one, how to get one and what can they do for you (and you for them)?
Philip Shelley is a script consultant and producer and runs the annual Channel 4 Screenwriting Course. We asked him to explain why getting an agent is important to a writer's developing career, including how to ensure you are ready for one and how to make the most of the relationship.
The Child in Time - an interview with screenwriter Stephen Butchard
Stephen Butchard (Vincent, House of Saddam, Five Daughters, The Last Kingdom) has adapted Ian McEwan's 1987 novel for 主播大秀 One, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books whose four-year-old Kate, disappears in a supermarket.
Inside the Writersroom - a new series of podcast interviews with the UK's leading TV drama writers
Join the UK's leading television drama writers, including Jed Mercurio and Sally Wainwright, as they lay bare their writing habits, habitats and career paths in in-depth interviews with 主播大秀 Writersroom's Abigail Gonda.
Introducing the 2017 Comedy Room writers
Comedy Room is our six-month development scheme for writers identified through our open submission script room and other talent searches. Following our most recent script room the writers in the Comedy Room 2017 have met up for the first time for a series of workshops.
Rellik - the new 主播大秀 One drama from Harry and Jack Williams
Rellik is the new thriller from the writers behind The Missing. They explain how the story experiments with structure and how they try to meet the challenges of telling a story back to front while retaining elements of discovery and change.
Doctor Foster - Series 2
The hit relationship drama returns to 主播大秀 One on Tuesday 5th September. The screenwriter Mike Bartlett explains what's happened in the meantime, why he thinks the first series connected with so many people and drops a few hints about Series 2.
A Q&A with Jeremy Brock (Diana and I, Casualty, Mrs Brown, The Last King of Scotland...)
Jeremy Brock was one of the creators of the 主播大秀's long-running medical drama Casualty and has gone on to write films including The Last King of Scotland and Mrs Brown. His latest drama Diana and I is based on the events surrounding Diana Princess of Wales death twenty years ago and how it affec...