So, say your career works out as you plan and you become a successful comedy writer with a couple of hit sitcoms to your name - would you take time off and work in conjunction with an indie company or the BBC to develop new talent?
Would you happily sit and read thousands of scripts to find a gem to help out some young writer who's struggling for a break? Or would you rather plough on with your own work?
I would like to setup a production company to find new talent. I don't only see it as giving something back but a great way to discover the new talent first - which is good business.
Of course this would all cost money so I would need to have been very successful but there doesn't seem to be a universal way of getting new writing talent into the industry. To be honest you wouldn't have to be the first eyes on any submissions you could get someone else to do that and then recommend ones for you.
I think a lot of new production companies are following this route.
I think that you could predict what anyone would do based on how they are now. If you are kind and giving now then that's how you'll be. Tight arse bastards are just the same, no matter what their financial possition might be. When they get big money they get big problems which require big money. >_< In their book they're up against it.
I shall never forget doing a collection for my sanctuary and a guy that was clearly living rough and in a bad way came up and spoke to me. He was a very sensitive, intellegent man and at the end of our chat he rattled about in his pockets and pulled out 7p and put it in the collection box. He said that he was sorry but that was everything he had and I believe that it probably was.
Not many people would give you 7p let alone everything that they had! 
I shall do something useful with my money and, knowing the struggle for writers, I shall include writing in that 
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Maybe I should start up a vegan writers production company. That'll keep you f**kers on ya toes! 
yes. i would run a script writing school and charge people a fortune.
I hate it when people who worked with you become big or threaten to become big and then they drop you like a turd. It's happened a few times to the Slaggs. And one one occassion I'm talking an icon. Big friends one minute, then eff off the next.
If it ever happens to The Slaggs we're both mindful to remember the people who supported or stood by us. We wouldn't want to take without return. And Marion you're right, the clue to the future action is hidden in the past and present.
I wouldn't need to set up a company, btw, when BSG acts as a giant cost-effective production company (or co-op) with readers and crits to highlight the good material. This is fast becoming the place to talent scout and network.
There are more than a few excellent writers here that deserve a shot. And I'm convinced that they'll get it. Just remember The Slaggs when you get there, you spawny gets.
I am going to setup a production company eventually 
I think I'm to drunk half the time to be Big headed lol
I guess what you're saying is that we all think we would but when/if we eventually make it would we really bother?
I'd like to think I would but first I've got to make enough to clear my debts.
I think I'd like to help new writers but I was once in a position where I read numerous scripts in the hope of getting something good out of all the contributions and it is hard work on the eyes.
The standard I received was not good and a lot of the wannabe writers really don't make it easy for you, which is why all these companies have guidelines they want you to adhere to. I was reading pages with just commas and no full stops and not even an inkling of a joke. And you think you've got to get through pages and pages of the stuff! It really isn't any wonder agents don't take unsolicited scripts.
I'll give something back... My pented up anger and rage MWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA. Thats why I should never be allowed to make it big
Once I've made it big, I'll come back and get all of you!
If I ever get big I am going to diet my arse off. No one loves a fattie. Except of course fattie lovers.
No, I'll be far too busy concentrating on my own career and expensive red wines.
What can you give them except encouragement to create kick ass material and keep submitting it with confidence and keep saying f**k you to the disappointments.
Now as then.
Then as now.
Other than that, you make your own mutherf**ken magic and money.
I don't owe you shee-it.
You have what you believe you can have.
Take it easy and stop straining and just relax into what you enjoy doing and thinking about.
Easy actually does it.
If I make it I'll invite you all to my crib and lie on a waterbed full of money, wanking myself silly while you watch!
Seriously though, the Slagg's co-op idea would be an excellent idea. Ever read Animal Farm, Slaggs?!
I'd pledge my support to rising talent, make series after series of a monotonous sitcom and finally have an attack of artistic integrity and die while trying to stage a week long theatrical adaptation of À la recherche du temps perdu.