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Each year, bursaries are awarded to new writers and an additional award is offered to the writer of the best play. These are selected by the scheme's panel, chaired by Sir John Mortimer CBE QC. [3] The awards are called the Pearson Award for Best New Play. Since 2014 the scheme has been sponsored by Channel 4. [4]
Coming Up is a British television anthology series, broadcast on Channel 4.Each series contains up to eight episodes consisting of single stories by writers and directors with no previous experience or less than two hours previous screentime, who are sourced through a talent scheme of the same name. [1]
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air ... of a number of comedians and writers. Channel 4 broadcast a ... Channel 4's various talent development schemes for film ...
After Ramsay died in 1991 he became a trustee for the Peggy Ramsay Foundation, leading to his continued support for new writing after he left the BBC, particularly through administering the Foundation's annual grant to the Pearson Playwrights' Scheme, (originally the Thames Television Theatre Writers Scheme and later to become the Channel 4 ...
1990: Pearson Playwrights' Scheme (f/k/a Thames Television Theatre Writers Scheme), Best New Play and Best Production Awards for The Pool of Bethesda 1992: The Writers' Guild of Great Britain The Pool of Bethesda Nominated Best Fringe Theatre Play
Channel Four Television Corporation is a British state-owned media company which runs 12 television channels and a streaming service. [3] Unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is instead funded entirely by its own commercial activities. [4]
The scheme, which was originally known as the Peter Titheradge Award, [2] began in 1978 and was devised by the then-head of Head of BBC Light Entertainment (Radio), David Hatch, and BBC Television's Head of Light Entertainment, James Gilbert. Each department put £5000 a year into a kitty to employ three young writers on a one-year contract.
The WGA strike has had an impact on U.K./U.S. co-productions, Channel 4’s head of content Ian Katz said today. The strike, which has been running since May 2, has spooked U.K. writers who are ...