Good Writing Podcasts?

Doing a desk job for the first time in years.

Have happily entertained myself with Test Match Special to date, but that won't keep me going forever.

Can anyone recommend any decent sitcom or script writing podcasts I could listen to?

The Nerdist Writers Panel, it's American and often has sitcom writers featured, as well as drama. There's lots already there to work through.

From the UK, 'The UK Scriptwriters Podcast'. Not sitcom specific, but about script writing generally.

Thanks Matthew, will check them out.

US one by John August & Craig Maizin, Scriptnotes. Should keep you busy.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/scriptnotes-podcast/id462495496

Thanks George

Not sure what "A Bit Of A Chat" focuses on week to week, but this interview with Jesse Armstrong is great:

http://asitecalledfred.com/2013/02/01/jesse-armstrong-ken-plume-chat/

Quote: MCharsley @ August 6 2013, 2:05 PM BST

Not sure what "A Bit Of A Chat" focuses on week to week, but this interview with Jesse Armstrong is great:

http://asitecalledfred.com/2013/02/01/jesse-armstrong-ken-plume-chat/

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Thanks, that's my afternoon take care of

Not a pod cast, but a seriously good/funny/informative Blog by one of the writers from Cheers and a co creator/writer of Frazier. -

http://kenlevine.blogspot.co.uk/

He runs a 'writers room' two day experience for wannabe writers each year (cost $1,500) to get the real 'us sitcom writers room experience'. I have emailed him with the same joke each year for three years now - can I come for $1,000 if I promise to be one third less funny than the rest. I am still awaiting his response...

This calls itself a podcast, though it's a video.

If anyone else here writes in a partnership (Which I've started to do a lot this year), then this is an interesting watch, talking to one Brit writing team:

http://blip.tv/tvwriterpodcast/080-uk-writers-james-whitehouse-and-hannah-george-6623678

Quote: playfull @ August 6 2013, 8:02 PM BST

Not a pod cast, but a seriously good/funny/informative Blog by one of the writers from Cheers and a co creator/writer of Frazier. -

http://kenlevine.blogspot.co.uk/

He runs a 'writers room' two day experience for wannabe writers each year (cost $1,500) to get the real 'us sitcom writers room experience'. I have emailed him with the same joke each year for three years now - can I come for $1,000 if I promise to be one third less funny than the rest. I am still awaiting his response...

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$1500!! For what? To sit there and do what you can do for free at home - write. I'm sure it use be beneficial to chat to him but really. I'm shocked.

I think I guess it easier to spend money than to sit down and battle with your writing.

Quote: Jennie @ August 8 2013, 9:54 AM BST

$1500!! For what? To sit there and do what you can do for free at home - write. I'm sure it use be beneficial to chat to him but really. I'm shocked.

I think I guess it easier to spend money than to sit down and battle with your writing.

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Well it's an American course for the American sitcom writing world; which is very different to ours. Not all about sitting alone writing, but developing 'room skills'. They'll be sat round a table all day in a big group beating out stories, pitching jokes and ideas at each other, before anyone is handed a fully broken episode to go and put together. So I suppose it might be a worthwhile experience to get a taste of what that's like.

But is sitting around with a group of other inexperienced writers really going to help? The reason the room writing system works in the States is because there is a clear hierarchy - and the baby writer is making the coffee.

I'll let Ken explain -

http://www.sitcomroom.com/

The point I was making is it is a really good (US) industry based blog.

Sorry, I got sidetracked.

Thank you for the recommendations, one and all

You can take the girl out of Nottingham...