Hello and welcome to our shiny new blogs. This is a slightly belated welcome as our other bloggers have already started posting - but better late than never. Kate Wincup has been blogging about her residency at BBC Comedy North for a little while, Richard Hurst has just joined her and there will be more to come.
Since the writersroom message board was discontinued, our website has missed a sense of interaction with users of the site. So we're hoping the blogs will redress that balance with something new and personal. Writersroom is an open door to the BBC in terms of the information we provide, our unsolicited script system and the public events we occasionally run. The BBC can seem like a big, daunting, unassailable place and we try to counter that by making writersroom a more accessible point of contact. We hope the blogs will be an on-going conversation with users.
I'm the Development Manager at writersroom. But don't let that put you off. I won't be a regular blogging personality as such - but I will be around and about. Our website is in line for a much needed overhaul so do keep an eye out for that. For fans of Sam Tyler and Gene Hunt, take a look at the script for the first ever episode of Life on Mars. It's a great piece of scriptwriting and as good a place as any to start if you want to write for TV.
