Blog posts by year and monthJuly 2010
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From Sunday Lunchers to The Inn Mates
The BBC College of Comedy was established in 2008 to select a group of writers early in their careers and accelerate their development through workshops with and mentoring by comedy experts. The college year ended with a showcase in March 2009, and of the scripts developed under the scheme, Sun...
TV Blog Updatiness
There are a couple of new writer-centric updates over on the TV Blog that are worth a few moments of your time. Kevin Cecil talks about his new sitcom The Great Outdoors. (And again, with different words, on the Comedy Blog.) Mark Gatiss talks about the genesis of Sherlock.
Writers Academy 24
Two theatre writers and six TV writers make up our selected eight this year. The standard of writing was amazingly high, so it was a tough choice. So big congratulations to... Patrick Homes Fiona Peek Paul Matthew Thompson Natasha Langridge Peter McKenna Matt Broughton Andrea Page Ma...
BBC TV Blog
If you're not already aware of the BBC TV blog, you may not know that they've been interviewing the people involved with various TV shows over the last couple of months. Here's the list so far. Robert Jones, writer of Lennon Naked Mike Bullen, writer of the pilot Reunited (and Cold Feet...
Festival Report
TV Drama - The Writers' Festival, created and organised by the BBC writersroom for writers with a successful broadcast credit or commission, has successfully come and gone. More than 240 professional writers descended upon the Leeds College of Music for two days to listen to the likes of Stephen Butchard discussing his painstaking research on Five Daughters, Matthew Graham talking about the difficulties of ending Ashes to Ashes, Tony Marchant arguing against biopic culture, and Adam Curtis explaining why most TV drama is rubbish. We had a packed schedule, with three streams running simultaneously most of the time, so there was always something to do. Many thanks to event curators and advisory board Tony Marchant, Jack Thorne, Alice Nutter, Toby Whithouse, and Stephen Butchard who helped to choose and shape the event, ensuring that it was an open, honest platform to explore what it means to be a writer in 2010, to appreciate how programmes are made, and to understand the craft, art, and business of writing.
