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The Latest from the Comedy Room in Lockdown
Chris Anastasi
Writer
Chris Anastasi reports back about taking part in this year's Comedy Room writer development group, which has shaped up to be a rather different experience than he had expected...
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InterConnected - Watch all Eight Lockdown Stories
BBC Writersroom
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Our InterConnected opportunity for short scripts to be filmed using video-messaging received a record 6803 submissions. We have produced eight of the scripts and you can watch them all now.
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Four practical tips to help your script reach its full potential
BBC Writersroom
Script readers
As our script readers reach the end of the scripts sent into our latest Comedy Room script window we asked a member of the team to share some top tips.
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Lockdown Learnings from two of our Northern Voices writers
Sara Cocker & Léonie Higgins
Writers
BBC Writersroom is as busy as ever during the lockdown due to the COVID 19 pandemic. We asked two of our Northern Voices writers (Sara Cocker and Léonie Higgins also known as Eggs Collective) to describe how their recent session played out in a socially distanced world.
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My Left Nut
Michael Patrick & Oisín Kearney
Writers
Upcoming Belfast writers Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney discuss how ‘My Left Nut’, their first project for the BBC, was adapted from their award-winning stage play about friendship, family, grief and testicles.
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The Comedy Room Writers
BBC Writersroom
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Find out more about the writers who have been part of our Comedy Room development group beginning in autumn 2019. They've been attending monthly workshops, having introductions to different scripted content areas across the BBC and have each been developing an original spec' script.
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The Comedy Room - Children's Day and an opportunity to pitch to Radio Drama North
Helen Parkinson
Writer
Helen Parkinson is part of our Comedy Room writer development group. She gives a rundown on the group's recent two-day workshop at Media City in Salford which covered writing for Children's plus an opportunity to pitch a short Radio Drama.
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Daly Grind - Bringing a pilot for a new sitcom to the screen
Dominic Reynolds
Writer
Dominic and John Reynolds are two comedy-writing brothers who were previously part of our Comedy Room writer development group. We spoke to Dom about creating the pilot for their new sitcom, Daly Grind, which launches on BBC One Scotland and BBC Scotland next week.
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The Comedy Room Day Two: Generating Ideas, Writing to a Brief and Pitching
Amy Xander
Writer
Amy Xander is part of our Comedy Room writer development group. She gives us an insiders take on Day Two of the Comedy Room workshops, which covered generating ideas, writing to a brief and pitching.
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Kicking off Comedy Room 2019
John Hickman & Stephen Robertson
Writers
Our latest Comedy Room writer development scheme kicked off last month. We caught up with John Hickman and Stephen Robertson, a writing duo who are part of this year's Room to find out how things went on Day One.
