Happy Monday everybody!
Hope you’ve had a great weekend. It’s time now for TVWriter™’s latest look at our most popular blog posts of the week ending yesterday. They are:
Category: News
Are You Ready for the Women Writing Competition?
Another reason to admire Kyra Sedgwick:
TVWriter™ Press Service
Broadening its mission to cultivate opportunities for and about women, SeriesFest is proud to partner with Big Swing Productions (founded by Emmy®- and Golden Globe®-winner Kyra Sedgwick, Meredith Bagby and Valerie Stadler) for the Women Writing Competition to discover and celebrate bold new series with a distinctly female perspective.
“Grey’s Anatomy” Showrunner Krista Vernoff Signs Overall Deal with ABC Studios
We love it when the media are all agog about a showrunner signing and big buck deal. And, truth to tell, we love it even more when the showrunner is as talented as Grey’s Anatomy’s Krista Vernoff. Congrats, lady. Take a bow:
by Rachel Montpeller
rista Vernoff is sticking with ABC and “Grey’s Anatomy.” The Hollywood Reporter confirms the “Grey’s” showrunner has inked a multi-year overall deal with ABC Studios. The pact will see Vernoff and her producing partner and husband, Alexandre Schmitt, creating and developing projects for ABC Studios via their new shingle, Trip the Light Productions. Vernoff will also continue to showrun the tentpole medical drama.
Vernoff is president of Trip the Light, and Schmitt is president of production and development.
Urgent Message for Past, Present and Future DOCTOR WHO fans!
In other words, this one’s for everybody…because eventually everybody falls under the Doctor’s spell, one way – and one Doctor – or another:
2019 is the Time to Start Listening to Big Finish’s ‘Doctor Who’ Audio Dramas
by James Whitbrook
With “Resolution” done and dusted, we are officially all out of Doctor Who on television until 2020. Whovians are pretty used to waiting huge lengths of time to see new episodes—like, say, that 16-year gap after the show was cancelled—but if you’re aching to get something Who in your brain, the perfect opportunity lies ahead of you: audio dramas.
Read the Latest DOCTOR WHO Scripts for Free
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. BBC’s Writers Room is one of the interweb’s best places to go for behind-the-scenes info on BBC shows.
Of special interest to writers (and we’ve said this before too) is the Script Library, which keeps on adding to its collection of BBC TV, radio, and feature film scripts.
Here’s a sample of what’s available…and, yeppers, we’re especially excited to note the two Doctor Who Series 11 teleplays that have joined the fold: