So received this email from the Script Consultant website that recently ran the Channel 4 open drama competition. Here's a flavour of the winning entries.
So, for instance, among the successful scripts for this year's Channel 4 course -
- a story about asexuality, based around two couples in each of which one of the partners is asexual. This was a fascinating idea - how some people have no sexual instincts at all, and how this deeply and often tragically affects their lives and relationships.
- a play about an aging male working-class Londoner, a lifelong Labour supporter who finds himself seduced by the promises of the BNP.
- a rom-com about a single career woman who decides to invite tenders from her male friends when she decides she wants to have a baby; and once she gets pregnant, falls in love with someone else altogether.
- a screenplay about two kids, aged 5 and 7, left in South East London to fend themselves for two weeks while their mother goes on holiday to Thailand.
- a radio play about a publishing company who discover a brilliant 'misery memoir' by an Afghan woman, decide to publish it to a fanfare of publicity - only to discover that the 'Afghan woman' doesn't exist and the story is a fabrication.
Seriously? This is what was chosen? No wonder Channel 4 makes a load of absolute crap these days.
