Little Brothers Big Opportunity
Cool. Enter for a competition which appears to have no features differentiating itself from the normal process of script selection, then get handed a sub-standard development deal, selling your show for several thousand pounds less than the going-rate for any other writer (no matter how inexperienced).
Sounds like a great scheme. For them.
Quote: Tim Walker @ October 6 2010, 4:21 PM BSTCool. Enter for a competition which appears to have no features differentiating itself from the normal process of script selection, then get handed a sub-standard development deal, selling your show for several thousand pounds less than the going-rate for any other writer (no matter how inexperienced).
Sounds like a great scheme. For them.
I thought you were in the kitchen?
They do realise it's so little, they've even put the pence in!
Dan
From what I read of it, the £1000 (and 00 pence) is for the delivery of a treatment only.
Surely any further development, like a script for example, would be more pennies for the writer. *
(i.e., a few more grand, not literally pennies)
Writing a proper treatment for a drama series may likely be more bleedin' work than writing a pilot episode. And you can bet your bottom dollar that it will involve some shit optioning agreement as part of that first grand.
Yeah, suppose.
Why not try that Shine Pictures Big Idea opportunity? £25,000 development deal for a feature screenplay treatment, a script (1st draft) and 1 x revisions.
Quote: Mikey Jackson @ October 6 2010, 6:44 PM BSTWhy not try that Shine Pictures Big Idea opportunity? £25,000 development deal for a feature screenplay treatment, a script (1st draft) and 1 x revisions.
Have you got a link for that please, Mikey? 
Cheers, honey. 
Beat me to it. But link (obviously) above.
Quote: Tim Walker @ October 6 2010, 8:05 PM BSTCheers, honey.
Gay.