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Writers Academy 22
Ceri Meyrick
The First Sift If you haven't received an email today telling you you're no longer in the running, you will have progressed through to the second round of our selection process. We have "long-listed" down from 510 to 177 scripts. For me (and for some of you) this is the most brutal and nerv...
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Ben Stephenson interview
Paul Ashton
The Controller of TV Drama Commissioning at the 主播大秀 answered questions from a group of emerging writers we brought in to Television Centre. Read what Ben had to say.
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An Hour a Day Keeps the Existential Angst Away
Dominic Mitchell
Writer
In the book The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters there is a section on the hours these highly successful scribblers devote to their craft. Each and every one of them tells the editor of their gruelling work schedule. Getting up before dawn and pounding on the laptop, at furious pace...
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Newsjack: Comedy Jazz
Dan Tetsell
Ok, in memory of Johnny Dankworth, here's how a sketch is like a jazz tune. Say you're listening to Coltrane play 'My Favourite Things'. He'll start out with the basic tune, and then he'll take it and muck about. He'll take that tune all over the shop, he'll noodle, he'll swoop, he'll throw i...
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Newsjack: Special Guests
Dan Tetsell
Hello. Apologies for missing a week - I was off in Bristol doing some acting and then I lost the email with my login details. Also, I'm only half way through series one of Mad Men so something had to give. Anyway, to make up for my absence, I promise my next blog will contain at least 75% more b...
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Newsjack: Explosion In A Clown Factory
Dan Tetsell
Sorry about that last blog. I never wanted to come across as a font-obsessed monomaniac. Oh, I am one; I just didn't want everyone knowing. So, the sketch deadline for Newsjack show 3 has passed. Did you send anything in? Slow news week, isn't it? And where it's not slow, it's grim. The ...
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NEWSJACK: SCRIPT SMART OR SMART SCRIPTS?
Dan Tetsell
OK, that's show two all printed off. We're now waiting for our cast to arrive from their snowy country retreats (and for some game changing news event to make all our sketches obsolete), so I've got just about enough time to post this on the subject of laying out sketches. The first sketch I ...
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Newsjack Uncut (Actually no, that would be about an hour long and full of mistakes)
Dan Tetsell
So, the first show of the new series has been written, re-written, collated, re-written again, rehearsed, performed, edited and broadcast so this seems as good a time as any to start this series of blogs aimed at giving you an insider's view of the ravening script-hungry beast that is Newsjack. ...
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Writers Academy 17
Ceri Meyrick
"Is It Fixed?" ...I hear some of you ask. "Don't you just give places to writers you know anyway?" It's true we do know many of the writers who make it on to the course. But that's because me and the team spend the rest of the year reading work and meeting writers. It's our job to know ...
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Writing in a Writers' Room
Piers Beckley
Denis McGrath is in the middle of a series of posts on his blog about the system of writing in the US and Canada. He's following the scripting process on an ongoing television series from beginning to end, looking at the various drafts and documents you turn in, and who they go to. Why you shouldn't put dialogue in your treatments. And at which points in the process you can get away with putting in a bit of handwavium. First part Second part Third part Fourth part More to come, so stay tuned to his blog.
