Aspiring TV and film writers summer school

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The TAPS summer school still has places left for aspiring UK-based screen and TV writers.
360° Commissioning with Gina Fegan, Chief Executive of the SEMN.
· Comedy – TV Sitcom Workshop with Charles Garland, “Allo Allo”, “Dad’s Army”, “Hi-De-Hi”, Paul Mendleson “May to December”, “My Hero”  and comedy veteran Steve Nallon.  Have 5 [...]

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Film script opportunity

You may as well have a go at this one.
BBC Northern Ireland is once again searching for the next generation of television writers with the launch of the Tony Doyle Bursary for New Writing. Now in its sixth year, the bursary is open to new writers who think they’ve got what it takes to start a [...]

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Naked Pierce Brosnan – why the interest?

It’s funny. I put up a post about a time many years ago when I co-wrote a Celtic rock musical for the Edinburgh Festival that starred a naked (and young) Pierce Brosnan. Since then, the post has been by far the most popular on this blog – despite all the other stuff happening on the [...]

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Film option for thriller novelist – press coverage

Film producer Matthew Raymond is to acquire film rights to novelist David Callinan’s as yet unpublished suspense thriller ‘Confess Confess’ (booktrade.info).

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From Elton John to Sai Baba

I have been invited to do a local radio interview and it’s one of those shows that have a pool of standard questions that you pick out of a hat. Questions like: What book has had a lasting impression on you? What period of history would you like to have lived through? What’s the favourite [...]

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Did naked Pierce Brosnan measure up to 007?

Sorry for the tease in my last post about the time when I worked with a young Pierce Brosnan on a Celtic rock musical I co-wrote for the Edinburgh Festival. I remember Pierce very well, in fact, I gave him a lift back to London from Edinburgh in my battered van with a goat [...]

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I saw Pierce Brosnan naked

I went back to Edinburgh with my wife, who hadn’t been in the city since we were involved with a Celtic rock opera at the Fringe many years ago. It’s a beautiful city with normal licensing laws (unlike in the past when you couldn’t get a drink after ten o’clock). I could still remember the [...]

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Everybody who’s anybody in film & trade publishing – hurry, hurry!

For those of you who have never heard of Gerard Jones then it’s time to check him out. Gerard is a 65 year old writer living in the US who started to chronicle the 500,000 rejections he has so far received for his books and suggested screenplays.
In so doing he compiled an online directory and [...]

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The Cheltenham Screenwriters Festival

It’s not often I go to festivals like this – in fact I don’t think I have ever been to one. For the UK film industry it did seem to attract some big names well worth listening to. There were people such as screenwriters Michael Goldenberg (Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix); William [...]

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Film project changes before my very eyes

Who’d be a writer? In earlier posts I told you about a long gestating film project that I thought was dead and buried. Suddenly, ‘Lark in the Morning’ – one of my few romantic dramas – burst back into life (we are talking years later). The original erstwhile producer and financier I had originally made [...]

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