Submitting Scripts To Children's Drama

CBBC Drama programmes include Grange Hill, The Story of Tracy Beaker, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Young Dracula, MI High and Kerching!

Single Dramas for Children should be sent via BBC writersroom.

Original Ideas

CBBC Drama has a single yearly commissioning round. In order for your work to be properly considered, you will need to submit a Single Page Proposal.

Due to the large number of submissions in each Commissioning Round, those projects which we don't feel we can pursue further will be rejected with a brief explanation, without an invitation to resubmit.

Please bear in mind that sometimes we have to reject ideas, not because they aren't good but because we already have something similar in development. Ideas have an uncanny knack of floating in the zeitgeist and sometimes we have a flood of projects about witches, ghosts, time travel or even teapots. What we really look for is something with a distinctive spin and a uniqueness that makes it stand out from the crowd.

Visit the BBC's Commissioning website for more information on the commissioning round itself, what CBBC Drama is looking for and for key information of the CBBC Drama audience.

Writing Samples

As well as looking for writers to create series, we also need writers for existing or new series created by others. Writing samples are not subject to a Commissioning Round deadline and can be submitted at any time.

If you are an experienced writer with television credits, interested in writing on new or existing series, please contact us direct.

CBBC Drama Submissions Department
E817 East Tower
Television Centre
Wood Lane
London
W12 7RJ

If you have a question, please send it to cbbcdrama.submissions@bbc.co.uk

If you are a new writer without any television credits who is interested in writing on a new or existing series, please mention this when submitting a script to the BBC writersroom.

Book Options

We are open to suggestions and offers of books for adaptation all year round - there's no need to wait for the Commissioning Round. However, if we do option a book, further development would have to wait until the next Commissioning Round.

Independent companies are free to option books if they choose. But if an individual writer does not own the option to a book, and we are interested in the book, the BBC will option it.

We are not expecting individual writers to option books themselves, however if you wish to bring a book to our attention you must obtain the agreement of the writer's agent to offer us the material.

If you have brought the book to us we will give you the first chance to develop it with us. However, since the BBC will then own the option it must be accepted that if that development is unsuccessful, the option defaults to the BBC and we are free to place the development elsewhere.