You may have more success though if you pay attention to the Producers meat!
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I have one organised this week in my cellar.
You're welcom but bring your own gimp mask, rohypnol, and blow torch.
Griff: Quite.
Sooty: I'll be right round..
Do you know how little they pay reader Dave?
You could organsie a soup kitchen for themn and they'd turn up.
Who in their right mind would want the job anyway!? Having to plough through all the (inevitable) mediocrity that floods in, looking for a bit of gold!
Readers must be a strange breed, an interview might be quite interesting..
Griff, you're not enthused enough about destroying the said producers' lives, in person?
David, wouldn't the Writers' Room just respond to each question 6 months later with stock responses such as: "While we found this question both funny and entertaining, we're currently looking for studio-based questions with a strong female lead." 
Quote: Frankie Rage @ July 29 2008, 10:09 AM BSTWho in their right mind would want the job anyway!? Having to plough through all the (inevitable) mediocrity that floods in, looking for a bit of gold!
Readers must be a strange breed, an interview might be quite interesting..
I did it for a while. No-one listens to my advice though. Sigh.
And what did they tell you to look for in scripts?
Dan
Quote: Simon Stratton @ July 29 2008, 10:20 AM BSTI did it for a while. No-one listens to my advice though. Sigh.
No offence Simon old bean, present company excepted as always!
I'm sure you're in your right mind (aren't you?) well at least you think you are, right? 
Like me I'm sound as a pound, oh yes.
Did it for Channel K. Different companies want different things. I heard on the grapevine recently (and I don't think they'd mind me posting this) that Hanrahan Media are very keen on doing a spin-off of Trexx and Flipside that has B-ice as the main character, with his crew, and they need a script.
But in general, now is not a good time to be sending in stuff to production companies as there is a summer hiatus while people go on holiday and scripts get buried.
But do they ask you to look for specific things or do they just give you a 'read it and if you think it's worth showing, let us know' kind of attitude to things?
Just interested as to how the script reader works...
Ta
Dan
Quote: SlagA @ July 29 2008, 10:10 AM BST
David, wouldn't the Writers' Room just respond to each question 6 months later with stock responses such as: "While we found this question both funny and entertaining, we're currently looking for studio-based questions with a strong female lead."
Genius bit of satire that.
Quote: swerytd @ July 29 2008, 10:35 AM BSTBut do they ask you to look for specific things or do they just give you a 'read it and if you think it's worth showing, let us know' kind of attitude to things?
Just interested as to how the script reader works...
Ta
Dan
The only direction I was given was 'did the script make you laugh out loud at any point', and that was all I went on - with a 'yes'/'no' pile. It's actually surprising how few scripts do. I know other companies who don't care about the writing or humour, and the requirements there are 'does it fit a channel?' and 'is it an original idea that explores a under-exploited area of society?' (like - has there been a black sitcom recently?)
Quote: Simon Stratton @ July 29 2008, 11:30 AM BSTThe only direction I was given was 'did the script make you laugh out loud at any point', and that was all I went on - with a 'yes'/'no' pile.
What if you were mute or had bad laryngitis?
I'd have to say the covering letter was pretty important about how keen I was to read a script. If it had a looog detailed description of the sitcom and its characters, I would be bored and thinking 'surely the script should speak for itself?'
If it started with one or two lines - this is a sitcom about..., and then straight into a list of the writer's acheivements, I'd be impressed and excited about reading the script. The better covering letters were about the author's writing CV rather than expositions about the script that usually just killed it.