You probably saw this article in the Guardian a few days ago. A disgruntled, disillusioned writer tells of the torrid time he had with producers at BBC3 Comedy, following the commission of his Sitcom pilot [...]
Over the past 20 years I have been on the receiving end of many successful and some disastrous pitches from writers seeking to sell their ideas to the channel I was working for. So I [...]
On my writer's group page Script Advice Writers Room the fabulous Lucy V Hay of www.bang2write.com and I coined a word for what script editors/writers who are also mothers do every day as we balance [...]
Are you trying to learn how to write a tv script? Writing for television requires the same fundamental skills as writing drama or fiction for any other medium, although you need to be looking at [...]
I've been helping writers via SCRIPT ADVICE since 2007 and it feels the right time now to collate the most oft-made mistakes I see in scripts and hope you find the don'ts useful to know [...]
I started in television in 1990 when the world was analogue not digital and mobile phones were Bengal Tiger rare. The only ones I regularly saw were those used by the film crew on location [...]
WHAT THE SCRIPT FACTORY SAYS ABOUT SCRIPT ADVICE:"We can heartily recommend Yvonne’s workshops – she unravels television like no one else! www.scriptfactory.co.ukFind out if I can help you with your current project@https://scriptadvice-co-uk.stackstaging.com offering writers mentoring, [...]
Running my website for writers SCRIPT ADVICE and THE SCRIPT ADVICE WRITERS ROOM on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/237330119115/ I often come across very valuable advice on the Net for writers. I also tweet a lot of important [...]
WHAT THE SCRIPT FACTORY SAYS ABOUT SCRIPT ADVICE:"We can heartily recommend Yvonne’s workshops – she unravels television like no one else! www.scriptfactory.co.ukFind out if I can help you with your current project@https://scriptadvice-co-uk.stackstaging.com offering writers mentoring, [...]
Holby City 1999. I had been asked by Mal Young (Head of Series drama at BBC1) to produce the second series of this critically acclaimed medical drama. The first series had not been the ratings [...]
