One of my Emmerdale episodes aired last Monday... complete with bedroom farce opening scenes, given great energy and fun by Nick Miles (Jimmy, pictured), Nicola Wheeler (Nicola) and Sian Reese-Williams (Gennie).
The episode's still available on the ITV website, here.
I don't write about my screenwriting often. With a newspaper article or radio programme, the process is short enough for me to blog a little extra information and provide a link and watch the article/programme appear within a week or so. Writing for the screen is a very different matter... and at the moment of actually scriptwriting, there's often very little I'm allowed to say about the project. Right now, I'm writing a children's show for a possible slot on CBBC. It's the first childrens' TV I've ever written, and I'm having a ball. It's a great project and a lot of fun... but I can't say anything more about it until it's (hopefully) greenlit.
For something very different, I've been researching The Sopranos... desconstructing it a little and gathering some information about how it's made. During this process I came across a couple of interesting links I thought I'd share. (After all, who doesn't like The Sopranos?) First off, a kind of scene-by-scene interview with DOP Alik Sakharov ASC (pictured, below), looking at some classic Sopranos shots. Secondly, an article which takes a closer look at the outlining process each episode goes through. It's clipped from David Chase's forward to a collection of published scripts, and it's fairly detailed.
