I take it nobody knows the answer to my question.
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Quote: Kevin Murphy @ November 4 2009, 4:51 PM GMTI take it nobody knows the answer to my question.
Sorry Kevin, I know people have signed up and have participated so I imagine you will get the details pretty shortly.
Cheers Marc.
I signed up a few weeks ago. Didn't have any problems and certainly didn't get what sounds like an out of date auto-response. I think they may be having problems at present as I submitted a script and requested one to review and have heard nothing for a couple of days which is not like them, they are usually quick. I'd consider chasing this up if I were you.
Quote: Marc P @ November 4 2009, 4:54 PM GMTI imagine you will get the details pretty shortly.
This happened.
Quote: Griff @ November 4 2009, 4:45 PM GMT*waits for next Jack Delaney novel Hard Skin*
I've just received a review of my reviews. Which was nice. And good to see they're keeping tabs on the readers to ensure a balanced perspective.
I can barely find the words to describe how contrived this reviewing system appears to be.
Email one address for a username and password, log in to the web site, look at a list of scripts and loglines (inexplicably hosted on Google Docs), then email a second address requesting a PDF of your chosen script making sure the username and password is included in the body of the email. Then download a review form (don't even try to use the ODT format version, you'll get about 30 files in four directories, none of which is an .odt doc), fill it in and return it to a third email address.
The form itself doesn't really inspire confidence either. They want to know if the script has a series story "arch" (sic), and if it's "unigue" (sic).
I have signed up and am now going to have to find the time to write the three reviews in order to get the script looked at.
I will,i guess, eventually find the time but surely if the sole aim of screen play is to find new writing talent isn't there a huge risk that they are going to put lots of people off or that the reviewers will be too subjective.
Quote: Ronnie Anderson @ November 5 2009, 1:38 PM GMTI have signed up and am now going to have to find the time to write the three reviews in order to get the script looked at.
I will,i guess, eventually find the time but surely if the sole aim of screen play is to find new writing talent isn't there a huge risk that they are going to put lots of people off or that the reviewers will be too subjective.
Although the alternative for the most part seems to be: 'find yourself an agent or don't bother us', so I guess it may not put that many people off. I think the process of critiquing somebody else's stuff is a good learning process in itself, so try to think of it as an oppoortunity 
Of course reviewing is subjective, but that is no more true here than anywhere else. They overview the comments so if someone is just dissing everyone else I would hope they might pick it up.
But I think that if someone was to hand in quite a radical piece (which I won't be doing), perhaps an Office, Mighty Boosh or Royle Family I think it could be possible that the reveiwers would fail to spot the potential as these shows clearly break a lot of comedy rules.
Quite possibly. But then wasn't The Office originally passed on? I'd also guess that reviewers on here won't be very concerned with it fitting demographics etc. which producers have to worry about and may colour their review of certain scripts. Do you believe there wasn't a better script on someones desk than Rudy's Records or whatever the Lenny Henry crap I heard on Radio 4 last night was?
Of course, if my masterpiece doesn't get a good review I reserve the right to point out that I always though this was a crap idea 
Quote: Griff @ November 5 2009, 8:26 PM GMTWell, Rudy's Rare Records has its ups and downs but I did enjoy the line "I'd like to lose my business in her recession". You don't hear that on R4 very often.
Bleak Expectations was on top form tonight though... what a corker.
Didn't hear Bleak expectation so will catch it on iPlayer.
As far as RRR I think I missed the ups. The business/recession line would fit nicely into your re-write of Love Thy Neighbour, don't you think?
I thought I'd fallen through some sort of time hole back to the 80's. I thought Lenny Henry might shout 'Fire Up The Quattro' at any second.
Why can;t you download Bleak Expectations is it the same for all radio?
WTF? Since when did this become the "Current radio Comedy..." thread? It's like a sneaky underhand discussion about radio comedy under the radar. 
This First Look web site is a joke. I can't even log into it now.