I have sent my sitcom to the BBC writers room and they have not replied in about 2 and a half months is this a good sign?
BBC Writers room
This should be in the writers section.
As for your script. You should have got a postcard acknowledging that they'd recieved your script. After that, it can often take them ages to get back to you. Three months. Six months. Nine months.
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Quote: Poulton Joe @ August 12 2009, 10:20 AM BSTI have sent my sitcom to the BBC writers room and they have not replied in about 2 and a half months is this a good sign?
You should have at least had an acknowledgement slip. Why don't you email them and ask?
I think it says on the writersroom website that if you haven't had an acknowledgement of receipt within a month of sending you should give them a call to check if they have actually received it.
I've done this before and the person I spoke to was very friendly.
If you have had the slip. Then you still got about another 2 months to wait I'm afraid.
A stat that many of you will know already: they only read 3% of submissions beyond the first ten pages, so they'd better be good!
Best make that 3% from page 11 bloody brilliant then!
Dan
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ August 12 2009, 3:35 PM BSTA stat that many of you will know already: they only read 3% of submissions beyond the first ten pages, so they'd better be good!
They have got so many quality sit-com scripts to plough through at the BBC, it takes time.
But they are always on the look out for the new Mad about Alice or Horne and Corden.
Quote: bigfella @ August 12 2009, 3:19 PM BSTIf you have had the slip.
Did they 'give him the slip'? 
Quote: youngian @ August 12 2009, 4:00 PM BSTThey have got so many quality sit-com scripts to plough through at the BBC, it takes time.
But they are always on the look out for the new Mad about Alice or Horne and Corden.
*giggles*
ive had the slip 
I think you have answered my question
Quote: Poulton Joe @ August 12 2009, 10:20 AM BSTI have sent my sitcom to the BBC writers room and they have not replied in about 2 and a half months is this a good sign?
I'm not sure that your question was answered!
From my reading of this Forum, it seems that people who get a detailed response wait about the same length of time as people who fail the 'first ten pages' test and get no notes on their piece. So, waiting a long time for a response is not a good sign that you are progressing through the system.
I think the Writers Room gets about 200 scripts a week. A three month turnaround seems reasonable.
Quote: Lee Henman @ August 13 2009, 4:27 PM BSTI think the Writers Room gets about 200 scripts a week. A three month turnaround seems reasonable.
Statistics-wise, that doesn't make a lot of sense. Queues either grow or shrink depending on whether you have less or more 'servers' (readers in this case) than are needed.
A six-nine month queue time, is actually silly, IMO, when the actual process time is at most a few days. They should employ more readers temporarily to get the queue length down to a few weeks.
