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Friday 30 March 2012, 17:12
Paul Ashton, Development Producer, Writersroom gives an update on the scripts that have been coming through the Laugh Track sift and the readers thoughts.
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Monday 26 March 2012, 13:21
The Script Room, BBC writersroom's new system for accepting unsolicited scripts - is now open for submissions for its Spring 2012 window.
Tuesday 13 March 2012, 14:28
BBC writersroom's Development Producer, Paul Ashton announces details of the new Script Room system for submitting unsolicited scripts to the BBC.
Thursday 9 February 2012, 16:17
Writersroom will soon be launching a fantastic new, improved, more efficient, more effective script system. Full details will be announced when our website is relaunched in early March 2012.
Thursday 2 February 2012, 12:47
BBC writersroom's Development Producer, Paul Ashton shares his top tips on writing studio sitcom
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Wednesday 24 August 2011, 13:52
I directed and presented a showcase of three of the winning sitcom scripts on Monday at the BBC Comedy venue in Edinburgh. Excellent audience turnout, a brilliant cast of performers from the fringe brought in at short notice, and a showcase where people laughed all the way through.
Read more about Made a right laughing stock of ourselves in Edinburgh ...
Wednesday 2 March 2011, 12:08
So our final tally of entries is an astonishingly grand total of 1808 - a lot more than we usually get in script competitions, augmented no doubt by much tweet activity.
The readers are ploughing bravely into the scripts as i type and are already uncovering what they think may be contenders for the...
Friday 21 January 2011, 12:16
Last year writersroom co-produced some short films from new writers and/or directors with BBC Film Network, BBC Films and Lighthouse. We've just heard that the weird and wonderful Turning by Karni + Saul has been nominated for a BAFTA, while Wish 143 written by the brilliant Tom Bidwell has been shortlisted...
Tuesday 14 December 2010, 13:07
We've launched a new programme - the Writersroom 10 - for emerging writers working with theatres. Writersroom has always run industry-wide partnerships to help find and develop talent - and new writing theatre remains a place where many many writers begin to (and continue to) develop and express their...
Friday 29 October 2010, 13:36
Oldipo Agboluaje, who came on our Sparks radio scheme and was on of our Royal Court 50 writers too, has a new play on this weekend on Radio 3.
Monday 25 October 2010, 13:42
Don't forget, the deadline is this Wednesday at 10am. Joining us to judge the final shortlist will be our marvelous New Writing Development Manager from up north, Jo Combes, and brilliant writer Gabriel Bisset-Smith. Jo recently joined writersroom from the Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre where she...Friday 18 June 2010, 12:43
We have now reached capacity for applications for the TV Writers Festival - so any writers applying between now and Monday will go on a waiting list for spaces. The deadline for receipt of cheques is next week so if you want to keep hold of your place you need to send that cheque! We will contact all...
Thursday 3 June 2010, 17:10
We've had a fantastic response to our quick-turnaround competition - 226 entries! And here are the winning three scripts by Joel Slack-Smith, Rebecca Walker and Jonathan Appleton - well done to them for sending in ideas that we really enjoyed reading. We loved the intensity of Joel's world, the overlapping...
Wednesday 12 May 2010, 11:31
People Snogging in Public Places, written by the brilliant Jack Thorne and brilliantly made by BBC producer Steven Canny this week won the Sony Radio Academy Gold award for Best Drama
Jack was on our annual radio drama scheme for new writers in 2006 and his winning play for The Wire on Radio 3 was commissioned...
Tuesday 27 April 2010, 15:59
The Controller of TV Drama Commissioning at the BBC answered questions from a group of emerging writers we brought in to Television Centre. Read what Ben had to say.
Monday 22 March 2010, 14:29
Here's the script of the first play from the latest season of The Wire on Radio 3...
Wednesday 17 March 2010, 15:59
After the flurry of blog-tivity surrounding the changes to our unsolicited submissions last year, I thought it would be useful to talk a bit about what happens when scripts progress through the system. A lot is talked about scripts not making it through - but what happens when they do?
So what happens...
Monday 8 February 2010, 11:59
Given the short turnaround for our call for Welsh writers, we have decided to extend the deadline by one week to allow writers more time to get their script and idea in to us.
So the deadline is now: 5pm on Wednesday 17th February
Just to clarify too - we are stipulating writers must have at least...
Thursday 4 February 2010, 16:07
The new season of The Wire strand of original new dramas on Radio 3 starts this weekend with Alan Harris's play The Goldfarmer. The strand is in it's 10th season, has always been commissioned out of Writersroom by Kate Rowland and has always included commissions for writers brand new to radio and broadcast...
Thursday 4 February 2010, 15:08
Eran Creevy's script for his low-budget film Shifty is now available to read. The film was developed through the Film London Microwave scheme in partnership with BBC Films. As part of the BBC's support of the project, I spent some time with Eran and his producers looking at the story before he went away...
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