🥳 This week, we will pay 31,487 members their share of £11,588,572! Find out more: www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-di...

Gah Instagram is a world of pain to use on a laptop. Can’t believe you have to go into the code to change stuff to make it work.

🖤 A beautiful new opportunity for unpublished & unagented writers with a novel-in-progress: the Hilary Mantel Prize launches today. The winner will receive £7,500 + mentoring + rep by A.M. Heath. FREE to enter. Deadline: 31 Dec 2025 amheath.com/hilary-mante... #writingcommunity #booksky Pls share.

@kevfcomicartist.bsky.social hello! Thought you’d like to know that the Socks got a mention at the screening of Terror of the Zygons at the BFI with the instruction to check them out! Quite right too!

Currently writing a heist movie - and while it’s a lot of fun, I can confirm that planning a successful robbery is a lot harder than it seems…

THE HOLMWOOD FOUNDATION SEASON 2 KICKSTARTER PRE-LAUNCH IS NOW LIVE! Find us at the link below! Click the "Notify Me" button for updates, and to be notified when the Kickstarter goes live in October. Please do share the link wherever you can!

Early Doors / Mindhunter / The Smoking Room. (That’s three shows not some crazy crossover thing.)

Happy 10th Anniversary to Torchwood at @bigfinish.bsky.social www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/t...

Eddington (2025) like Hancock (2008) before it… getting comedy fans hopes up.

Sisyphus was trying to cancel part of a Sky subscription, wasn’t he?

deliberately avoiding the latest Alien Earth episode to keep alive the dream that this might finally be the episode that the xenomorph enjoys a soothing visitor experience to The Museum of English Rural Life

Need an autumn #Saga? The #LandGirls trilogy follows the lives, loves and dramas of a trio of Land Girls in the closing months of WW2. amzn.to/3U2B4bn #TuesNews Only 99p on Kindle. #HistoricalFiction

Today, apparently, is National Potato Day in America, so if you’d like an absurdly long thread of root-vegetable-native-to-the-Americas content, you’ve come to the right place. We begin with the potato monument in Biesiekierz, Poland, because, well: look at it. Of course we do

Nice to see my old eps go out on Classic #Corrie. A happy reminder of good times at the factory. (Friday’s ep is the fantastic two-hander between Tracy and Deirdre Barlow by Jonathan Harvey #TrulyClassicCorrie )

What is biological fear? How about psychological fear? Or cultural fear? On this episode of the Britflicks Podcast you'll learn about how to use them and Neal Marshall Stevens' 'Toolbox Of Dread' to help you write better horror screenplays open.substack.com/pub/stuartwr...

The main thing that seems ‘criminal’ to me is that this is a volunteer role - and not only that you have to provide legal checks on the content, research everything and ideally have a degree. Really out of order - and glad that @writersguildgb.bsky.social are promoting ‘free is not an option’.

Two of the nicest people and really talented @fiotrethewey.bsky.social and @georgiacooked.bsky.social have written @theholmwoodfnd.bsky.social A new horror fiction podcast, which you can listen to now via the link below. pod.link/1768238933

@anghelides.bsky.social @verbatimfoley.bsky.social @rolandmooretv.bsky.social There can surely be no higher praise than that we’ve delivered on the promise of K9 & Company: www.scifipulse.net/in-review-bi...

RTS Cambridge Conference is priced at an ambitiously ridiculous 2000 pounds excluding VAT. Wow - why no freelancer rate (especially as most people in TV are freelance)? @rtsmedia.bsky.social

Careful using WeTransfer - especially if you’ve signed an NDA for the work you’re transferring… thanks Simon.

Love it when I get a LinkedIn job ad for a scriptwriter. My excitement usually fades when I read along and find the words ‘AI trainer’. Nope - that crap has already stolen everything I’ve ever written. I think I’ve ‘trained’ it enough.

Watch out for scammers trying to get money by selling Oasis tickets (that don’t exist). We had one join our street WhatsApp and then try the scam.

‘Fair use’ usually means using a small quote - not the whole fricking book. Nonsense ruling.

Fellow Workspace users, ICYMI:

I know it’s normal for freelancers to highlight how long it takes to get paid - but I finished some work for one company on Saturday and got paid today. And that’s unusual enough to want to post about it. I wish this was the norm in the TV industry.

Working in a nice co-working space - but amazed at the amount of company sensitive information that people bark about on Zoom calls.

Full details on Smith & Sullivan's new series @chrisnaylor.bsky.social @anghelides.bsky.social @bigfinish.bsky.social @0tralala.bsky.social @verbatimfoley.bsky.social @rolandmooretv.bsky.social scifibulletin.com/2025/06/03/f...

Union secures fee rise for playwrights www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/union-s...

This was a fabulous series to work on, and @chrisnaylor.bsky.social and @sadiemiller.bsky.social are terrific in it. Lovely scripts from @verbatimfoley.bsky.social @rolandmooretv.bsky.social and @0tralala.bsky.social

Thanks to Freddie and Bradley for having me on the Artron Energy podcast. It was great fun to talk about writing, Doctor Who - and indeed, writing Doctor Who! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

If you shout ‘NickClegg’ fast it sounds like a pretty good swear word. Try it when you stub your toe.

The Star Cops are back next year... nearly catching up with themselves! @bigfinish.bsky.social @andr3wsmith.bsky.social @rolandmooretv.bsky.social @georgiacooked.bsky.social scifibulletin.com/2025/05/22/s...

THAT’S A WRAP! We’re officially finished with live recording for Season One! So incredibly proud of all our amazingly talented cast and crew. Watch out for episode two, dropping in just a few weeks time, on June 10th…

Yesterday the House of Lords backed an amendment to the Data Bill, which would give creators transparency over the use of their content by AI The Bill now returns to the Commons Read a statement by the Creative Rights in AI Coalition, of which WGGB is a member: writersguild.org.uk/government-m...

Creative workers in the UK are in the curious position of being protected from hostile Labour legislation by Tory peers.

@rochanapatel.bsky.social hi Rochana good to connect on here. Hope you’re having a good week.

I forgot to watch the Chris Packham programme on neurodiversity… #ADHD in action there.

Love the story of how the writers pitched Deep Cover… that’s got to be a one off.

Top UK screenwriter/showrunner @sallyabbott.bsky.social is holding the A-Z of Developing a TV Show workshop on 4-6pm Friday 9th May. It’s at Liverpool Everyman Theatre. Sadly, I can’t make it, but have a spare ticket for any UK based screenwriter who would like to go. #ScriptSky #ScriptSkyUK

UK people, please consider signing this Parliamentary petition asking for better care for those experiencing hyperemesis gravidarum - my dear daughter-in-law suffered during both her pregnancies & it's a horrible thing, with inadequate support: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

LinkedIn asking if I want to flag in which roles I’ve used Street Team Management. No idea what that means.

Local Hero directed by fabulous @kenbentley.bsky.social today on R4 (and available after too) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Telly people. Has any drama set in the First World War actually called it that on screen? There must have been one, surely…

Thank you to everyone who has signed our petition, 6,000+! Authors deserve to have a livelihood and compensation from their work, if you haven't signed do so now 👇

5pm TODAY: the finalists for the Tinniswood Award for best new play discuss the art & craft of radio drama. Featuring Satinder Chohan, Edson Burton, Kirsty Williams & me! Chaired by Lucy Gough & Nicola Baldwin. It's free & on Zoom, but book here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Always nervous about meetings on April 1st…. “Can your crime drama have some songs in it!”

New adventures for Sadie Miller & @chrisnaylor.bsky.social as Smith & Sullivan are Reunited! @anghelides.bsky.social @bigfinish.bsky.social @verbatimfoley.bsky.social @rolandmooretv.bsky.social @0tralala.bsky.social scifibulletin.com/2025/03/29/s...

NEW AUDIO SPINOFF TITLE: Smith & Sullivan: Reunited STARRING: Sadie Miller as Sarah Jane Smith, Christopher Naylor as Harry Sullivan and John Leeson as K9 WRITTEN BY: @verbatimfoley.bsky.social, @rolandmooretv.bsky.social, @0tralala.bsky.social DUE FOR RELEASE: July 2025

Flying but fun visit to #SeriesMania - great to catch up with people and see some interesting master classes with Sally Wainwright and James Norton.