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SAD NEWS
Passed on by Mary Payne

From my website:
www.radiolondon.co.uk/kneesflashes/happenings/current/hapcurr.shtml

Another sad loss to broadcasting

Peter Young has sent us the sad news that award-winning writer and broadcaster, Jeremy Pascall, passed away on August 30th after a long fight against throat cancer.

Jeremy made an impact both as a broadcaster and a writer. He was the devisor and presenter of Capital Radio (London)'s comedy quiz show You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet and Brunch. Brunch, an innovative Sunday morning mixture of music and comedy, was fronted by the late Roger Scott, featured Paul Burnett and early appearances of Angus Deayton, Jan Ravens and Steve Brown. Jeremy Pascal, Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins, co-wrote The Uncyclopaedia of Rock, the winner of the 1986 Monaco International Radio Festival Award, which also appeared as a book.

Jeremy co-wrote the current Radio Four sketch show, The Right Time.

PY, who regularly appeared on YAHNY, says:

Those shows we did all those years ago are something I treasure, and we had a lot of laughs both on and off the air. May he rest in peace.


ODDS AND ENDS
From: writerlinks@hotmail.com

We hope you find the following three news items helpful and/or interesting:


TV Scripts for Series, Pilots and MOWs Now Being Accepted In Addition to Feature Film Scripts

Based on the expressed interest of entertainment industry producers, agents, managers, studios and distributors, etc., The Hollywood's Next Success Screenwriting Contest will now recognize writers of television scripts in addition to writers of feature film screenplays.

Television script Winners will be determined in the categories of Best Drama Series, Best Comedy Series, Best Pilot and Best Movie of the Week (MOW).    As with the film categories, all Winners in the TV categories are guaranteed at least five requests for their scripts from interested buyers, agents, studios, etc., as a result of the Contest.

Because multiple script entries may be entered for as little as $8 per script, writers who have already entered in the feature film categories may count those film scripts toward the fee schedule allowing them to submit their TV scripts at the lower fees allowed for multiple entries.

Writers who have not yet entered their film or TV scripts may do so now by going to www.hollywoodsnextsuccess.com


Brent Weindling hooked up with an agent after winning the Diane Thomas Award at UCLA Extension, and wound up selling the very first screenplay he ever wrote, "Pearls Before Swans" in a mid- against high-six figure deal.


George Ferris of Beverly Hills, CA received the Film in Arizona Screenwriting Competition Grand Prize for his screenplay "Greyhounds" at the Awards Breakfast held August 22nd in West Hollywood.


INFORMATION ON TAPS
From: Kev F. Sutherland

If you've not come across them before, TAPS - the Television Arts Performance showcase - are worth getting in with. They're running the London Writers Festival at the Riverside Studios, from the 22nd to the 30th of this month.

A couple of writers from the Sits Vac group have been accepted on board and are having their work showcased and workshopped as part of the event (I'll leave them to tell you who they are, see PS).

If you're interested, this is the line-up of events taking place at the Riverside. You'll have to ask the box office the prices as I'm unsure of them (at first I was told all session cost 10 quid, then a writer has told me they've had to pay a hundred quid to have their work shown, which seems odd)

London Writers Festival:

Sat 22nd - Event 1: 14:00 -17:30 Writing for Film And TV + Pitch Your Screenplay.
Event 2: 19:30 Screening of 3 thirty minute dramas.

Sun 23rd - Event 3: 19:30 Showcase of 3 New Comedy writers

Mon 24th - 17:00 Writers Fair
Event 5: 19:30 Seminar - Where the work is - Soaps, Children's, Animation.

(NB: Obviously you'll all be at The Sitcom Trials in Islington on Mon 24th, so you'll have to skip this one)*

Tues 25th - Event 6: 19:30 Showcase of 3 new comedy writers.

Wed 26th - Event 7: 19:30 Writing Drama For Digital Media.

Fri 28th - Event 8: 14:00 Training For Writers
Event 9: 19:30 From Script To Screen - short films with top experts.

Sat 29th - Event 10: 19:30 A Screening of 3 Thirty minute Excerpts From Full Length Dramas.

Sun 30th - Event 11: 19:30 Showcase of 6 New Shorts Writers.

Box Office @ Riverside Studios is 020 8237 1111.

Kev F Sutherland
Producer
THE SITCOM TRIALS
http://sitcomtrials.co.uk

* For more on the Sitcom Trials, have a look at the website above.