It will run from 11.00am to 5.30 pm with a free networking bar (from 5.30) in the adjoining café/bar.

John Yorke will present an illustrated lecture on themes from his insightful book ‘Into the Woods’.

Jed Mercurio (Line of Duty) will give a talk and engage in a Q& A session.

Our panel, chaired by Jan Gilbert will include novelist and scriptwriter Isabelle Grey (Accused) Lisa Holdsworth (New Tricks Robin Hood Midsomer Murders) and Ceri Meyrick (Producer Father Brown Mysteries BBC).

Philip Shelley presents 'Writing A Successful Script - My Top Tips for writing a screenplay that is going to open doors for you'.

Alison Lumb will present an illustrated guide to commissioner and commissioning in television.

Schedule

10.30 -11.00 Registration
11.30 -12-15 John Yorke

Break

12.30 -1.15 Philip Shelley

LUNCH

2.15 – 3.15 Guest Panel

Break

3.30 -4.15 Alison Lumb
4.30 -5.30 Jed Mercurio

Networking in the bar.

What’s on offer:

THE DRAMA LANDSCAPE – A BIRD’s EYE VIEW – Alison Lumb
Commissioners and producers, in-house and independents, channel briefs and  the Window of Creative Competition. What does it all mean?  Find out who does what and what happens where in a brief tour of the world of television drama.  

OUR GUESTS:

John Yorke
He is currently managing director of Company Pictures, which has produced Shameless, Skins, The White Queen and Wolf Hall. - John Yorke is the former controller of BBC Drama production and he also created and ran the BBC Writers Academy. His book ‘Into the Woods’ has received acclaim amongst leading writers.

Philip Shelley 'Writing A Successful Script - My Top Tips for writing a screenplay that is going to open doors for you'.

Philip Shelley worked for many different companies including the BBC, Granada TV, Thames TV, the First Film Foundation, Channel 4 Film, Paramount Pictures, Paines Plough Theatre Company… before working as a development script editor, at Granada TV Drama, and then at LWT Drama. He spent 7 years at Carlton TV Drama, as Head of Development, then as Producer. At Carlton he was script editor on the last two INSPECTOR MORSE films, KAVANAGH QC, ANYBODY’S NIGHTMARE, THE WAITING TIME, NOAH’S ARK and many other shows. Philip has worked as a producer on shows including MARGERY & GLADYS, a 2 hour film for ITV, written by John Flanagan & Andy McCulloch, directed by Geoffrey Sax; and MAKING WAVES, a 6 x 1 hour series for ITV, about life in the contemporary Royal Navy.

Ceri Meyrick is Producer of the BBC1 daytime detective show, Father Brown, starring Mark Williams as GK Chesterton's eponymous priest/amateur sleuth. Series Three is shooting over the Summer in the Cotswolds. Her previous roles have included Series Producer on EastEnders, Storyliner and Producer on Holby City, and Tutor on the BBC Writers Academy.  She is also currently developing new crime shows for BBC Daytime. Lisa Holdsworth has been writing professionally since 2001 when she won her first commission devising and writing an episode of the ITV series Fat Friends She was shortlisted for a Best New Writer BAFTA for the episode. She went on to join the Emmerdale writing team. She spent three years there writing over forty episodes of the soap. She left Emmerdale to write for New Tricks one of the BBC1’s top-rated series. She wrote eleven episodes across several series and won the RTS Yorkshire Best Writer award for one of her episodes. She has also written extensively for Waterloo Road. Her episodes included a feature length series opener. She was happy to write on the final series of the BBC’s Robin Hood including the acclaimed “origins” episode.Isabelle Grey is a novelist and screenwriter. Her novels of psychological suspense, Out of Sight  and The Bad Mother,are published by Quercus. She is currently writing her third, Good Girls Don't Die.

Her most recent television drama is ‘Tina’s Story’, an episode of the award-winning BBC1 series Accused  written with Jimmy McGovern and starring Anna Maxwell Martin, Ewen Bremner, Robert Sheehan and John Bishop.

Isabelle began writing for television with a BBC1 commission for two pilot episodes developing her idea for a war-time medical series. Since then she has contributed to numerous drama series, including The Bill, Casualty, Wycliffe, Rosemary & Thyme and  Midsomer Murders, Two of her Wycliffe  episodes were described by The Daily Telegraph  as 'a gem of a screen play' and The Daily Mail as 'the best one ever'.

She has original drama commissions from Scottish Television, Carnival and Working Title TV, and also wrote the acclaimed BBC1 docu-drama Genghis Khan.

Alison Lumb has a substantial track record in television drama production as an award-winning script editor, producer and executive producer for the major broadcasters. Alison then joined the BBC1 drama series CASUALTY as a script editor, and the following year her work as series script editor was recognised when the series won the RTS award for Best Drama Series.

Her credits as Producer include MEDICS for Granada TV, SILENT WITNESS for BBC1,  serials THE STEPFATHER starring Robert Glenister, and Boy Meets Girl starring Martin Freeman and Rachael Stirling for ITV1 and BABYFATHER For BBC2, which was awarded the Race in Media Award for Best Drama in 2002.

As an Executive Producer at the BBC, Alison was responsible for the BAFTA nominated UNDERCOVER HEART by Peter Bowker starring Daniela Nardini and Steven Mackintosh, the police series CITY CENTRAL for BBC Drama and THE ECHO, by Kevin Hood and Minette Walters, starring Clive Owen and Joely Richardson.

Alison is currently a Guest Tutor for the MA in Television Scriptwriting at de Montfort University, works as a freelance script consultant to independent production companies and writers, and has taught script reading, script editing and  television production courses for the BBC, The Script Factory and the Arvon Foundation.  In 2010/11 she ran the Irish Language Television Drama Course for BBC Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Screen and TG4 and from 2011-13 ran the screenwriting programme for SCEAL, a  development scheme for writers and directors based in the Irish Republic , funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland and TV Channel TG4.

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