Graham Linehan is one of the greatest TV comedy writers of the last thirty years, who has created or co-created…
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For a man who could justifiably be described as “Fellini’s Screenwriter”, as he helped to co-write such classics as La…
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9/11 was the tragic, terrifying start of the 21st century. It is estimated that nearly 3,000 people were killed on…
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Carla Lane is one of the few writers who changed an original, exotic, given name – Romana Barrack (which sounds…
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There are great screenwriters and then there are great co-screenwriters. Like Charles Brackett and I.A.L. Diamond (Billy Wilder’s two great…
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Move over, May 4th (“Star Wars Day”) and out of the way, “Alien Day” (26 April) – henceforth, June 16…
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I have hitherto excluded “writer-directors” from this series, as I have wanted to concentrate on “pure” screenwriters – those writers…
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When Amazon Studios announced at the start of the year that it had signed Sharon Horgan to an exclusive two-year…
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Jay Presson Allen was one of the finest female screenwriters of the 1960s and 1970s, successfully adapting for the screen…
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The Wire is the Citizen Kane of television, revolutionizing television and televisual storytelling just as Citizen Kane revolutionized cinema and…
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