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Writing for Television
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Nov 12, 2009
from 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM |
| Where | Ogden Lewis Seminar Suite, Fielding Johnson Building South Wing |
| Contact Name | Rebecca Vickerman |
| Contact Phone | 0116 252 2320 |
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Chair: Laraine Porter
This panel brings together four of the UK’s most exciting professional writers, all of whom have written extensively for television: from popular shows to soaps, and from classic adaptations to original screenplays.
The panelists will discuss how they entered the profession, how television scripts are commissioned, the challenges of slotting into long-running TV series, the different demands of television, film and stage, and opportunities for young writers.
Michael Eaton is a screenwriter, dramatist and film historian, with thirty years of work in television, cinema, radio and theatre. Author of the television features Fellow Traveller, Signs and Wonders and Shipman starring James Bolam, he has also written episodes of Heartbeat, and has adapted Dickens and George Eliot for BBC radio.
William Ivory won the Royal Television Society award for Common as Muck and a BAFTA nomination for The Sins starring Pete Postlethwaite. He has written BBC dramas Night Flight, A Thing Called Love and The Invisibles and projects for both film and stage. Currently he is working on the film We Want Sex and Queens for Film 4.
Stephen Lowe has worked as an actor, director and dramatist. His plays have appeared at London's Royal Court and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Film and television projects include Ice Dance and FleaBites starring Nigel Hawthorne, the BBC adaptation of Scarlet and Black starring Ewan McGregor and episodes of Coronation Street.
Phil Nodding founded the Nottingham on-line film channel Britfilms.tv. He has written for the BBC drama The Chase and the Channel 4 comedy Shameless and has recently co-written a new coming of age drama set in the Nottinghamshire coalfields. His most recent commission is Hi-Lites, an afternoon play for Radio 4.
Laraine Porter (Chair) is director of the British Silent Film Festival, a British Film Institute award winner and Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at De Montfort University
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This is a ticketed event. For free tickets, please contact Rebecca Vickerman on 0116 252 2320 or rv40@le.ac.uk.
