Screenwriting Goldmine: Interviews With The Pros

You can’t hope to succeed if you don’t know how it’s really done. Check out these in depth conversations with professional writers, directors, producers, and script execs. Some are audio files, some are transcripts; all are fascinating and full of insight. Get accurate advice from people who have actually been there!

BBC Writers Room – What They Really Want…

Paul Ashton runs the team who act as the first line of defence for the BBC as they endure the constant seige of scripts from hopeful screenwriters and respond to around 10,000 scripts every year. If you’ve ever sent a script off anywhere, this 40 minutes+ interview is simply unmissable.

This is a fascinating audio interview with Ged Maguire, who is a highly experienced director of British TV. In over 55 minutes of full and frank conversation with top UK media journalist Sally Brockway, Ged talks about a vast range of screenwriting matters.

Toby Whithouse is a massively experienced TV writer. He’s worked on Doctor Who, Torchwood, and Hotel Babylon, devised his own show No Angels, and most notably created the juggernaut supernatural show called Being Human. He talks about screenwriting, how Being Human arrived, and how it felt to bring Sarah Jane Smith back to Doctor Who.

At the time of interview Vanessa Haynes was the Head of Development at Baby Cow. If you don’t know Baby Cow rest assured this is one of THE great UK comedy production companies. Over the last decade their credits include Gavin & Stacey, The Mighty Boosh, Ideal – and many many more.

Silvia Manning is an American actress who decided she was going to write her own sit com, and was going to get it on screen, and nothing was going to stop her. In this conversation with Sally Brockway she describes the process, including selling the show to a network and getting it shot.

Hugh Ellis worked in theatre, then in TV. He ran into regime changes on the show he was working on, as you do, got the sack, as you do, then decided enough was enough, and he was giving up writing commercially. As you do. Then he wrote a movie. Which did very well indeed!

Screenwriting Goldmine: Interviews With The Pros

BBC Writers Room – What They Really Want…

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Writing For ‘Doctor Who’ & Creating ‘Being Human’

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