Blog posts by year and monthMarch 2019
Posts (6)
Getting Your Comedy Script Ready
Our annual submission window for Comedy scripts is open from 10am on Monday 1st April to 5pm on Monday 29th April. Writer and script-reader Robin Taylor shares some great advice if you're thinking of submitting a script this time.
BBC Writersroom NI - March 2019 Update
The last six months have been a busy time in the BBC Writersroom Belfast office. Find out what has been happening since our last blog post.
Writing Radio Drama
Dan Rebellato is a playwright and the writer of over twenty BBC Radio Dramas. As his adaptation of the 19th century play Lorenzaccio hits the BBC iPlayer, he explains how radio is the ideal medium to bring out its contemporary resonances, a home for experimentation and a "writers' medium".
An Update from the Drama Script Room Reading Team
Find out the latest from the reading team who are busy with the 3634 scripts we received in our latest open submission window for drama scripts.
Writing MotherFatherSon - An interview with Tom Rob Smith
Tom Rob Smith is a novelist and the award-winning screenwriter of London Spy and The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. His new drama MotherFatherSon starring Richard Gere comes to BBC Two from Wednesday 6th March 2019.
Writing My First Episode of 'The Dumping Ground' for CBBC
Christine Robertson was one of the writers selected for our very first Comedy Room development scheme back in 2015. She explains how that led to taking part in a shadow writing scheme for the hit CBBC drama The Dumping Ground and eventually her first commissioned episode.
