27 posts about Writer on this blog
Friday 10 May 2013, 11:32
Writer Lucy Gannon explains how a character in search of a role, and a soundtrack, came to life for BBC One's new drama about district nurses.
Read more about Frankie: A character with her own soundtrack
Thursday 28 March 2013, 14:19
A Q&A with documentary director Marc Isaacs and contributor Iqbal Ahmed reveals what it was like filming an intimate portrait of life as it unfolds along London's Edgware Road.
Tuesday 19 March 2013, 13:32
Doing justice to the brave female officers that inspired the daytime BBC One drama, by show creator Dominique Moloney.
Thursday 17 January 2013, 09:42
"I've always believed that when difficult subjects are handled with humour, people actually take things more seriously" - creator Bob Kushell on BBC Three's new comedy series.
Friday 4 January 2013, 10:31
How the earliest days of London's Metropolitan Police Service inspired the series creator to write BBC One's new dark crime drama.
Read more about Ripper Street: Policing the meanest streets imaginable
Wednesday 29 August 2012, 15:02
Good Cop, in short, is a police show that I wanted to try and make that little bit different - a police show in which I wanted to concentrate on the individual, the man, rather than the rules.
Recently police dramas, both home-grown and imported, have been mostly dominated by forensics and procedure...
Wednesday 22 August 2012, 17:40
How did you become involved in writing the second series of In With The Flynns?
I'd worked with the show's producer, the legendary Caryn Mandabach, back in the 1990s on the American version of Men Behaving Badly and we'd been trying to work together for a while.
She had a show, I had a laptop, so...
Read more about In With The Flynns: Q&A with writer Simon Nye
Tuesday 24 July 2012, 11:00
I'd never been near any boat smaller than a pleasure cruiser on the Norfolk Broads when I started work on the script for Bert & Dickie. That was part of the attraction for me.
I'm sport mad and was intrigued to investigate sculling - a sport which for me was completely alien.
(For those who'd like...
Friday 6 July 2012, 12:25
By total coincidence, I live in Southern Sweden, about half an hour down the road from Ystad, the small coastal town where Wallander is filmed and set.
I'm one of those jammy sods who managed to entice a Swedish girl into marriage and then paid the price by being made to emigrate to a well-maintained...
Read more about Henning Mankell's Wallander: I'm the screenwriter
Tuesday 10 April 2012, 13:34
This corner of a school quad in Elstree, Hertfordshire is where this story begins in in the winter of 1986.
Over 25 years ago I approached Matt Lucas on this exact spot to tell him that the day before I had been off school sick and I had been watching a television...
Read more about Creating The Matt Lucas Awards with my childhood friend
Thursday 5 April 2012, 13:02
Here's the brief from Aaqil Ahmed, the BBC's Head of Religion and Ethics:
a) Tell the story of Christ's Passion, his suffering and crucifixion, in a way that's fresh and universal.
And
b) Set it in Preston.
That's it.
Writing drama for TV normally means having a detailed series outline to stick...
Read more about Writing The Preston Passion from the ground up
Monday 26 March 2012, 11:13
As much as television commissions can be few and far between for any writer, let alone newer writers like me, My Murder wasn't a project I immediately jumped at.
I guess I needed assurance that the Beeb wasn't using Shakilus...
Read more about My Murder: Why this drama had to have a heart
Tuesday 13 March 2012, 10:48
Saturday's episode was my first Casualty script and I couldn't have asked for a more exciting introduction.
It's a three-part story, which is unusual for Casualty, and it pitches the Holby Emergency Department (ED) team into the aftermath of a violent gang-related shooting and the police investigation...
Wednesday 8 February 2012, 10:23
I could rob a bank. I could rob two banks, if I wanted. But I don't because the risk outweighs the reward. Prison seems grim and I'm not all that bothered about being rich.
I can separate all the men I know into two categories: alphas and betas. Leaders and followers, if you will.
Inside Men's warehouse...
Read more about Inside Men: Armed robbery and the modern man
Thursday 26 January 2012, 10:38
It's summer 2009, and I am sitting on David Bailey's sofa, trying to persuade him to let me write and direct a film about his life for BBC Four.
Bailey is short, fierce-eyed and direct: "I just don't want it to be s***!" he says.
I had spotted the photos which inspired We'll Take Manhattan in a weekend...
Tuesday 22 November 2011, 11:03
Hello - I'm Helen Raynor. I've worked on established dramas like Doctor Who, Torchwood, and Primeval, but Baker Boys is my first original drama series. We've filmed this blog post to share a bit about the creative process with you.
I created and wrote it with Gary Owen, who you will spot nodding sagely...
Read more about Baker Boys: We're the writers and real-life partners
Friday 23 September 2011, 12:45
I've been playing Tamwar Masood on EastEnders for four years.
Together with Charlie G Hawkins, who recently left EastEnders after playing Darren Miller for eight years, I have written the second online episode of EastEnders: E20 series three.
Wednesday 7 September 2011, 16:05
We met at Bristol University, in 1979, where we were both studying drama.
We then went on to work together in the theatre, when Paul directed Jeremy's play In Times Like These for the Bristol Old Vic.
Both of us had spent time in hospital - Jeremy after illness and Paul after an accident - and although...
Read more about 25 years strong: the idea that defined Casualty
Thursday 25 August 2011, 13:12
I've been a writer for American TV shows for the last 20 years, and for a British one for about a year. It's like being young again.
My name is Jane Espenson, and if you are a reader of TV "written by" credits, you might have seen that name on shows like Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, The O.C.,...
Read more about I'm one of the scriptwriters for Torchwood: Miracle Day
Monday 22 August 2011, 15:43
I'd finished a BBC film about Robespierre and the French revolutionary terror and was looking for another story about tyranny, but this time seen from the point of view of someone who opposed it.
I'd always wanted to make a film about anti-fascists in Germany and Martin Davidson, the commissioner for...
Read more about Hans Litten vs Adolf Hitler: To Stop A Tyrant
