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Who’s telling disabled people’s stories?
Disabled writers face social and physical barriers to access in the UK broadcasting industry.
Kat Sadler on ‘Such Brave Girls’
“You do just deal with the most serious things through comedy, and it’s always struck me how we can always make each other laugh, even in the darkest times.”
Q&A with Helen Black
In conversation with Without a Paddle, novelist and TV writer Helen Black talks process, getting an agent, working with Jimmy McGovern, finding time to write, TV development, spec scripts and more.
Grass Routes Prize launched for new and unrepresented working class writers
“This will be a scheme that hopes not just to raise awareness of the issues, but to help in a practical way to change it, and to also challenge others in the industry to take steps themselves to address them.”
Writers in the media
Alice Oseman named one of BBC’s 100 Women
“An award-winning author, illustrator and screenwriter, Alice Oseman is the creator of a bestselling graphic novel for young adults, Heartstopper. She has also turned the LGBTQ+ coming-of-age story into an Emmy award-winning television adaptation for Netflix.”
Gender gap widens for British TV writers
Contributions by women writers and directors to British TV have gone in the wrong direction over the past six years, according to an alarming report from the broadcaster-backed Diamond project.
Ray Lawlor on ‘Obituary’
“I’ve just been plugging away, trying to get it made, trying to get producers and get the money together, which is very new to me. Then you end up shooting it and broadcasting it in the same year. It happened so quickly.”
Jeff Pope on the Cary Grant of ‘Archie’
“The story I wanted to tell was what happened to him in his childhood still had a profound impact on him as an adult. That’s really the story that it’s telling, such an awful, traumatic childhood.”
Alan Carr’s ‘Changing Ends’ gets second series
The show was co-created by Carr and Simon Carlyle, the writer of Two Doors Down who died last summer at the age of 48.
Jesse Armstrong on life after ‘Succession’
The creator and showrunner of the HBO megahit and British comedy ‘Peep Show’ will receive the 2023 Founders Award at the International Emmys on Monday in New York.
Interviews
Ray Lawlor on ‘Obituary’
“I’ve just been plugging away, trying to get it made, trying to get producers and get the money...
Jeff Pope on the Cary Grant of ‘Archie’
"The story I wanted to tell was what happened to him in his childhood still had a profound impact...
Who’s telling disabled people’s stories?
Disabled writers face social and physical barriers to access in the UK broadcasting industry.
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Alice Oseman named one of BBC’s 100 Women
"An award-winning author, illustrator and screenwriter, Alice Oseman is the creator of a...
Gender gap widens for British TV writers
Contributions by women writers and directors to British TV have gone in the wrong direction over...
Who’s telling disabled people’s stories?
Disabled writers face social and physical barriers to access in the UK broadcasting industry.