Blog posts by year and monthJuly 2020
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Meet the Writers of The Break 5 on BBC Three
BBC Writersroom and BBC Studios Drama Production have announced the five writers who have penned the fifth series of The Break. The bold, short form drama series, now in its fifth year, is a collaboration between BBC Writersroom, BBC Three and BBC Studios.
InterConnected - Watch all Eight Lockdown Stories
Our InterConnected opportunity for short scripts to be filmed using video-messaging received a record 6803 submissions. We have produced eight of the scripts and you can watch them all now.
A Suitable Boy: An interview with the writer Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth's vast panorama of post-independence, post-separation India in the 1950s comes to BBC One from 26th July in an adaptation scripted by Andrew Davies. Vikram explains the story's origin, introduces its main themes and some of the key protagonists.
How I made the move from the UK to the US, writing on shows including Riverdale spinoff Katy Keene (now on BBC iPlayer)
Leo Richardson is a former actor and playwright who spent several years writing for the BBC's EastEnders. He explains how he made the leap to working in the USA, how the pilot season works and what it's like to be part of a writers' room on a US show.
Four practical tips to help your script reach its full potential
As our script readers reach the end of the scripts sent into our latest Comedy Room script window we asked a member of the team to share some top tips.
Casualty - Writing Jade's Story
Charlie Swinbourne and Sophie Woolley were both part of our first Writers' Access Group. They have co-written this Saturday's episode of Casualty in which the show's first deaf character, Jade Lovall, meets her birth mother for the first time and finds out why her mother had to give her up.
