Blog posts by year and monthFebruary 2018
Posts (10)
Kudos North Writers' Award - Winners Announced
Katie Mulgrew, Helen Black and Niki Rooney have been announced as the winners of the Kudos North Writers' Award - the 3 winners each receive a £2000 prize to option their idea and bring it into development with mentorship from acclaimed northern writers Danny Brocklehurst and Stephen Butchard.
My experience on the TV Drama Writers' Programme
Lauren Sequeira is one of 14 writers who gained a place on our TV Drama Writers' Programme for 2017. The scheme recently culminated in script read-throughs with a professional cast of actors. Lauren explains what happened on the scheme and sums up the experience.
An update from our Script Readers
Our team of script readers have been busy reading the 3845 scripts that were submitted in our last window for Drama script submissions. We asked the newest recruit to the team to give an update on progress so far.
An interview with Kris Mrksa, the writer of BBC One's Requiem
Kris Mrksa is an Australian screenwriter whose chilling psychological thriller Requiem is currently going out on BBC One on Friday evenings. We caught up with Kris to ask about his career to date.
Caroline Aherne Bursary - Winner Announced
The Caroline Aherne Bursary, run in partnership with BBC Comedy Commissioning and BBC North, offers a £5000 award to a writer/performer towards the funding of future development.
Valentine's Day Sketch Success
For Valentine's Day we offered the opportunity to our Comedy Room writer development group to pitch sketch ideas for the BBC's Social Media accounts. 3 sketches were made and have achieved over half a million views on Facebook alone.
Top Tips from the Comedy Room
Jonny Addy is part of our Comedy Room writer development group. He shares some top tips picked up along his way to the Room plus explaining what happened in the recent January workshop.
Find Me Funny - Shortlist Announced
Find Me Funny is an exciting opportunity from BBC Cymru Wales to find the new generation of comedy writers and will result in up to three new comedy pilots for BBC One Wales and BBC iPlayer. Following an open call via our website at the beginning of the year we're delighted to announce the short...
Collateral - an introduction by writer David Hare
Collateral is acclaimed playwright David Hare's first original series for television. The thriller stars Carey Mulligan, John Simm, Nicola Walker and Billie Piper. Set over the course of four days, the four-part drama explores the spiraling repercussions surrounding the fatal shooting of a pizza...
The Break III 'Love' on BBC Three - Meet the Writers
The Break is our returning strand of monologues by writers who are new to broadcast. For the third series the theme is 'Love'. The 5 monologues were all written by Scottish or Scotland-based writers and filmed on the set of River City in Dumbarton.
