Arvon Foundation – Reflections on a TV Drama residential writing week
Hi There, In the last week of February, for the first time, I tutored on an Arvon Foundation residential week at the beautiful Lumb Bank, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath’s old house on a steep Yorkshire hillside in Happy Valley land (Becky Cawood’s – and Sylvia Plath’s – graveyard is a 10 minute walk away […]
Roxy Cook: Reflections on reading 281 scripts
Hi There, This fortnight, I’m really grateful to ROXY COOK for sharing her thoughts and responses to the script reading experience for the 2023 Channel 4 screenwriting course. Roxy is one of this year’s shadow script editors on the Channel 4 course and has also just been announced as the winner of the Theatre 503 […]
SCREENWRITING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Hi There, SCREENWRITING & SOCIAL MEDIA This topic – the connections between screenwriting & social media – is on my mind right now for a few reasons. Last Monday I ran one of my regular SCRIPT READING & DEVELOPMENT Q&A’s on zoom for 8 people interested in this area of the industry. One of […]
Happy Valley + GREENLIGHT SCREENWRITING LAB
Hi There, It was a sad moment on Sunday evening when HAPPY VALLEY finally came to an end after 3 series – this has quite simply been one of the best TV dramas of the past 20 or years (and not just in the UK). On courses I have run, I have done a page-to-screen […]
Introduction To Screenwriting 1 day course + 4screenwriting reader feedback
Hi There, This fortnight a guest blog by one of my excellent script readers, now shadow script editor on the 2023 Channel 4 screenwriting course, Polly Creed – THE IMPORTANCE OF FIRST IMPRESSIONS Over the last seven weeks, I’ve read almost three hundred scripts, submitted as part of the Channel 4 Screenwriting Course. It’s been […]
TV & FILM HIGHLIGHTS 2022 – YOUR RESPONSES. + A NEW SCRIPT EDITING COURSE
Hi There and Happy New Year, In this first newsletter of 2023, here are your very kind and interesting responses to my recommendations for the best film and TV from 2022. Hopefully these lists in response will give you a lot more inspiring viewing for the New Year. (Mind you, I’ve already watched a number […]
My TV & FILM highlights from 2022
Hi There, This fortnight, in my last newsletter of 2022, a look back at the best TV shows and films I saw in 2022 (not necessarily first shown in 2022, just the ones I watched in 2022!), focusing on the brilliant scripts and stories that were the basis of these shows. TV SOMEBODY […]
SEA CHANGE – EMILY WHITE
Hi There, This week, another introduction by a writer to their script in my website script library – https://script-consultant.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Sea-Change.pdf This is actually a stage play. I think I first read this script when Emily submitted it for 4screenwriting and then I subsequently went to a reading of it and I loved it both times. […]
Muirinn Lane Kelly
MUIRINN LANE KELLY I have thought twice about writing this, wondering if it’s presumptuous, not really my place to do so. But these are my honest feelings about someone I knew and liked a lot, someone from whom all of us, and in particular those of us who are interested in writing and working in […]
LAURENCE TRATALOS – LIFE ACCORDING TO ME
Hi There, This week the second in an occasional series of write-ups by the writers about the scripts they have generously allowed me to include in my SCRIPT LIBRARY. This week, Laurence Tratalos on his excellent script, LIFE ACCORDING TO ME https://script-consultant.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Life-According-To-Me-Pilot-Laurence-Tratalos.pdf ‘I initially decided to write Life, According To Me when my younger sister […]
