Tell Your Own Story
How to redress the balance, if you don’t see yourself on-screen… A personal plea from Jay Harley. Dear Box-Tickers, Hi. My name is Jay. I am an LGBTQIA+ multiple box-ticker. I want to speak to all of you, who tick boxes on the grounds of your ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability or economic background. I want […]
Desert Island Dramas – Sarah Phelps
In a series of fun, short interviews, we wanted to find out which television dramas inspired our team and the screenwriters they admire; what would they choose as their Desert Island Dramas? So, as you jump onto a life raft for one, you can grab three dramas/comedies to take to the nearby island you […]
Screenwriter Interview – Daisy Coulam – Part 2
Script Angel’s James Gillam-Smith chats with screenwriter Daisy Coulam (Granchester, Casualty, EastEnders) about her new Channel Four thriller Deadwater Fell, getting a greenlight and her writing process. JGS: Firstly, many congratulations on the success of Deadwater Fell. What was the inspiration and starting point for the series? Daisy: Deadwater Fell started as an obsession with […]
Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards Report 2020
A glittering red-carpet event by writers, for writers, with the most diverse and inclusive nominee list of any awards shortlist announced so far this year (industry: take note, this is how you do it), last night’s WGGB Awards ceremony was as funny, irreverent and joyous as you’d expect from the creative storytellers whose words, vision […]
Stepping Stone Scripts
How to maximise your big, ambitious film and TV specs with smaller, producible pieces – your stepping stone scripts. By Jay Harley I have read hundreds, if not thousands of spec scripts over the years. I am impressed by the vision and the scope of every writer I’ve read. Whether you’re creating sci-fi universes, or […]
Screenwriter Coaching Questions Answered
What you really want to know – a writing coach answers your unspoken screenwriter coaching questions. By Lucy Hackney I’ve been working as a coach for Script Angel for over a year. I’ve seen it burgeon and grow and felt how incredibly rewarding it is to be able to give one to one attention to […]
Favourite Christmas Movies
Curl up for Christmas – the must-watch movies of winterval! By Jay Harley The coaches As soon as I asked my fellow screenwriting coaches for their favourite Christmas movies, I received a flood of emails. What constitutes a Christmas movie? Does it have to be about Christmas or just something you watch at Christmas? I […]
Content London Report 2019
Last week’s International Drama Summit at C21’s Content London Conference highlighted the catch-22 new writers find themselves in as the industry cries out for new voices while worrying about risking high-end television drama budgets on the shoulders of inexperienced, untried writers. Hayley McKenzie reports. Whether the sessions were focused on new distribution models, the increased […]
The Write Approach
Script Angel founder and CEO Hayley McKenzie on what the industry should be doing to train and develop the next generation of diverse screenwriting talent. The BBC does it. Channel 4, NBC, Warner Bros and Nickleodeon do it. And more recently, Imagine Entertainment has joined their ranks. All of these organisations now run writer development […]