More BBC stuff

While I try to rack my brains to come up with an idea in time for the Afternoon Play, why not follow the links to find the description of development priorities for BBC Films, BBC Drama and CBBC.

BBC Films.

BBC Drama.

CBBC .

Also, here’s some interesting details about a TV Drama Writers’ Festival the Beeb are going to organise early next year. I don’t know how you apply for a place yet but take a look at the schedule for now:

TV Drama Writers’ Festival: 17 – 19 Feb 2006

A national festival giving professional writers the chance to exchange, develop and debate TV Drama in a fast changing world, with sessions from leading writers

For discussion:

• The writer in a multi channel world
• Innovation in action
• The writer as producer
• The challenges of writing for a long runner
• True Drama: fact v. fiction
• The art, the craft, the business of TV Drama
• From theatre to TV (West Yorkshire Playhouse)
• Representing the reality of Britain today - the writer's responsibility?
• The American influence - good or bad?

We'll be organising a couple of public screenings and Q&As (we may be premiering Tony Marchant's new serial), we're going to try and get a drama shot and cut and shown in the week before, using the latest cheap technology, and we'll have continuous screenings of archive and contemporary drama running in various spaces.

Writers/Execs to lead sessions (to be confirmed)

Paul Abbot, Jimmy McGovern, Debbie Horsfield, Tony Marchant, Tony Jordan, John Fay, Jane Tranter, John Yorke, Nicola Schindler, John Whiston, Tony Garnett, Kay Mellor, Ruth Caleb, Lucy Gannon, Sharon Foster, Russell T Davis, Stephen Butchard, Pete Bowker, Roy Williams, Peter Flannery, Alan Bleasdale, Adrian Hodges, Peter Kosminsky, Kwame Kwei Armah, Jed Mecurio, Burn it, Abi Morgan, Paul Greengrass Terry Cafolla, Andrew Davies

Draft Schedule

Thursday

pm - Reception
-Key note speech
-Premiere screening

Friday

am- group 1 or group 2
Break
am -group 1 or group 2 group 3 or group 4

Lunch + screening

pm - key note speech 2 + viewing
Break
pm – group 4 or group 5 or group 6 or group7

Supper

pm Screening of new work
Optional entertainment (writers pub quiz)

Saturday
am - Jane Tranter in conversation with……..

Around the event will be screens with selected dramas to watch - TV dramas that most inspired the panellists

Delegates
100 places to professional writers who apply (must have TV credit)
50 places allocated to Regional Screen Agencies to nominate and support key new talent
50 places allocated to execs and BBC nominees

Opportunity to announce winner(s) of TV series competition

£100 fee