UK TV Drama 2011
Watching the turgid ‘THE HOUR’ on BBC2 last night made me think about the state of current UK TV drama – I find myself in so many conversations these days with writers, script development people, producers, who say things like, ‘I don’t watch much TV drama – not British TV drama anyway.’ People only ever […]
screenwriting course
The weekend has been and gone and with it the first ‘screenwriters studio’ screenwriting course – ‘An Authoritative Guide To Writing – And Selling A Great Screenplay.’ The whole weekend was a really positive experience both for myself and Phil Gladwin running it but also, I think I’m safe in saying from all the great […]
NEW SCREENWRITING COURSE
On July 16th and 17th in central London I am running a new course – ‘The Authoritative Guide To Writing – And Selling – A Great Screenplay’. Places are filling up fast but it isn’t too late to secure your place. For full details and to book, follow this link – http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/seminar.htm The course will […]
Tactical Questioning Tricycle Theatre
I went to see ‘Tactical Questioning’ at the Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn, London on Friday night – a play contructuted from editing the transcripts of the inquiry into the death of Iraqi Baha Mousa in British army captivity in Basra in 2003. This was fascinating and gripping. And an extraordinary illustration of the power of dramatic […]
good news for comedy writers
http://t.co/r7aklFD Very good news for comedy writers. Michael Jacob worked at the BBC for years, has been involved in high level comedy for years and knws his stuff. Philip Shelley script-consultant June 16th 2011
NEW BLOG! ALISON HUME \ The Sparticle Mystery interview
Currently on CBBC is screenwriter ALISON HUME’s new 13 part series, THE SPARTICLE MYSTERY. This is a really excellent new series from one of British TV’s most exciting and original writers. ALISON trained at what was then the Northern Film School and the Carlton new writers course before getting her first broadcast credit with a […]
script-consultant review 0f 2010
A bit late in the day, some thoughts about activities generated through the website in 2010:- The main work I did last year was unquestionably writing \ script-consulting work on Nigerian TV drama series, ‘Bloodties’. I was first approached about this a couple of years ago and after initially working as script consultant on some […]
Exclusive ASHLEY PHAROAH screenwriter interview
This week’s interviewee is the British screen writer ASHLEY PHAROAH. Ashley has a fantastic track record in UK TV drama and is originator of some of the best and most successful TV drama of recent years – not least LIFE ON MARS and ASHES TO ASHES. Here Ashley talks about many of the shows he […]
C4 screenwriting course 2011 publicity
A couple of links to publicity for the C4 screenwriting course I am currently running:- http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/31040/channel-4-launches-new-screenwriting-course http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/broadcasters/c4-launches-drama-writing-course/5022630.article?query=0 Regards Philip PHILIP SHELLEY script-consultant Jan 27th 2011
Screenwriting and Script Editing Course feedback
In the past two years I have run or participated in a number of courses in both screenwriting and script-editing, and in this post I include some of the positive feedback these courses have received. I run two regular script-editing courses for the BBC Academy – ‘Introduction to Script-Editing’ and ‘Advanced Script-Editing’. (see http://www.bbctraining.com/courseDetails.asp?tID=2702&cat=). In […]