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September 5, 2011

Early Bird Discount – Last Few Days
“The Authoritative Guide to Writing – And Selling! – a Great Screenplay”
Sat-Sun 24th and 25th September, 10am – 5.30pm Central London

You just have 4 days left to book your place at the Early Bird discount rate. Full price will apply after SEPT [...]

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NEW SCREENWRITING COURSES Autumn 2011

August 3, 2011

I’m delighted to announce two more screenwriting courses this Autumn, led by myself and screenwriter Phil Gladwin, one in London (Sept 24 + 25), one in Glasgow (Nov 12 + 13). We had a great time running this course, ‘The Authoritative Guide to Writing – And Selling – A Great Screenplay’ in London in July [...]

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UK TV Drama 2011

August 3, 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 [...]

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screenwriting course

July 19, 2011

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 feedback [...]

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NEW SCREENWRITING COURSE

July 4, 2011

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 be a [...]

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Tactical Questioning Tricycle Theatre

July 4, 2011

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 [...]

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good news for comedy writers

June 16, 2011

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

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NEW BLOG! ALISON HUME \ The Sparticle Mystery interview

March 1, 2011

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 memorably [...]

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script-consultant review 0f 2010

February 7, 2011

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 very [...]

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Exclusive ASHLEY PHAROAH screenwriter interview

January 31, 2011

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 has [...]

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