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IMPORTANT NEWS FOR WRITERS & THOSE INTERESTED IN DEVELOPING IDEAS FOR TV!

By ⋅ February 15, 2013 ⋅ 3 comments

Some very important dates for your diary:    Writers First off, the BBC Writers Room have opened a window of opportunity for anyone to submit unsolicited scripts. It’s called The Writers Room. They’ve changed from a rolling submissions system to one with specific windows when they will accept writers’ work so you need to get [...]

Can Blogging Help You to Get into TV?

By ⋅ December 6, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Are writing skills valuable if you want to work in TV? You betcha! Not only are writing skills useful in many aspects of TV work but they may help you to get TV work in the first place  A badly written CV and covering email could finish your chances of even getting on the first rung. [...]

Keen Screenwriters Take Note…

By ⋅ April 5, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

Are you interested in screenwriting? Then a couple of bits of news that may be useful to you:   Screenwriting Competition The School of Media & Performance  at Falmouth is pleased to announce the opening of this year’s Nick Darke Award. The award will continue to celebrate the best writing for stage, screen and radio with [...]

How to Find a Good Story – & Get It on TV

By ⋅ February 22, 2012 ⋅ One comment

Good television is all about finding – and telling – good stories. Apart from understanding the art of making video you also need to develop good writing skills for many jobs in television. Our last post focused on excellent advice from an experienced  TV screenwriter but what about the factual entertainment side of TV production?  Many factual and multi-item TV programmes eat [...]

So you want to be a TV Screenwriter?

By ⋅ February 20, 2012 ⋅ 5 comments

  So you want to write for television or film? Then you need advice from an experienced and successful screenwriter. Philip Gladwin is that man! Phil has been a screenwriter for over 25 years , writing for such high profiles TV shows as ‘Casualty’, ‘The Bill’, ‘Holby City’ and many more BBC and ITV shows.  [...]

How to be a TV Scriptwriter

By ⋅ December 14, 2011 ⋅ One comment

So you want to be a TV scriptwriter? Then you need to hear from someone who’s been there and doing that. Dave Cantor writes scripts for television. His credits include such BBC sitcom heavyweights as Green, Green Grass and My Family. Dave worked with the great television scriptwriter, John Sullivan, creator of Only Fools and Horses, before [...]

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