Lisa Holdsworth (Ackley Bridge, All Creatures Great and Small) talks to Carolyn Reynolds about her extensive experience writing for shows such as Waterloo Road, Call the Midwife, New Tricks and Midsomer Murders.
You could be forgiven for thinking that the award- winning screenwriter and producer, Jeff Pope, approaches his work by trying to find the most gruesome story possible.
This is the man who has made TV dramas based on the dark deeds of serial killer, Fred West, Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, and Britain’s most prolific hangman, Albert Pierrepoint.
Sally Wainwright is the creator and writer of BAFTA-winning series Happy Valley and Last Tango in Halifax. She shared her top tips for aspiring writers at our 2016 Student Programme Masterclasses.
She shared the pleasure and pain of writing drama with EastEnders boss John Yorke at this year’s RTS Student Programme Masterclasses.
Script editing “was an invaluable way to learn about television production and writing … Having that ‘production head’ gave me an advantage in writing [my] first episode [of Wolfblood) …but I was still very much learning the ropes.”
Hughes, an award-winning screenwriter whose credits include The Girl, Five Days and Miss Austen Regrets, was quizzed on the craft of screenwriting by executive producer Ruth Pitts.
Hughes began writing drama while still working in factual. She reflected: "You can say that you want to be a writer until you are blue in the face, but you've got to actually do it."
