Month: February 2010

  • The nomenclature of showrunning

    Over the last few years there’s been a growing call in the UK drama industry for a move to a US-style system, where the person in charge of a TV programme is also a writer. In this country I’m only aware of two shows that do this: Doctor Who and Holby City. Unfortunately, this system […]

  • Writers’ Social

    Sara Baroni and myself have taken it into our heads once more to organise a writers’ social. So if you’d like to come down the pub and chat about writing for stage and screen and radio and perhaps even game-controller, who knows?, we shall be at the Knights Templar in Chancery Lane on the evening […]

  • New Screenwriting Forum

    I’ve just opened a new screenwriting forum. Because we didn’t have anything like The Artful Writer or Wordplay forums here in the UK. Hopefully it’ll be of some use to everyone. Why not stick your head in and say hello?