Blog posts by year and monthSeptember 2011
Posts (7)
New script: The Fades
If like us you've already become addicted to BBC Three's brand new fantasy horror, The Fades, then you'll be pleased to know we've just added the script from episode one to our script archive: The Fades, Episode 1 by Jack Thorne Jack wrote a very insightful blog piece for us last week on t...
Newsjack - Non-commissioned & Commissioned
So, that's my last episode for this series done. This week, Jon Hunter takes up the reins as Newsjack script editor - but before I hang up my red pen (or at least put the lid on it), I thought I'd spend a bit of time explaining the contribution that the non-commissioned and commissioned writers ...
The Fades
I struggled a bit when thinking about what things I could say on a writersroom blog because I always like the blogs on here that try to be useful. I read this website all the time, mainly because I want to work out how other writers do it and I was determined to think of something similarly usef...
EastEnders: E20 - My first writing job
E20 was the first piece of professional writing I had ever done and I was very much aware that as young writers, we're almost expected to have a message. I remember sitting on a train ride back from summer school and wondered if I had one, or more so, if I wanted to have one. For me, when drama ...
New script: Rastamouse
Very excited to share a brand new addition to our script archive with you: - Rastamouse 'Da Crucial Plan' by Michael De Souza and Genevieve Webster. This installment of the brilliant CBeebies stop-motion series, follows Rastamouse , Scratchy and Zoomer as they try to sniff out who...
Newsjack
As possibly the least silly silly-season on record draws to a close, we're currently getting ready for the fifth series of Newsjack - which will see us at a new home (BBC Radio 4 Extra) and with a new host (Justin Edwards). Because we're a few series in, there are already a plethora of articl...
Get a Squiggle on: Masterclass update
We received some fantastic entries for our Get a Squiggle On competition and the readers had their work cut out whittling down 400 scripts to just 16 that got through to our second round masterclass - which took place last week. An anxious group of 16 writers arrived at the masterclass in L...
