I'm Tom, a student at Sheffield and writer at heart. I have just finished a draft for the first episode of a new sitcom and after being rejected by the writer's room it's now going around independent production companies. Other ideas are in the pipeline too.
Looking forward to chatting with writers/producers/directors etc and learning from their experiences.
Tom
Would it be possible to read the script?
Er yeah I'd love to let you guys read it, in fact I hope to set up a small website soon, as sort of an online portfolio which I could put the whole document on. I'm not being funny or anything, but how would I stop it from being copied if I made it available to read. i'm not saying that would happen but...
Please don't take that the wrong way because as I said one of my intentions was to eventually get people here to read it, it's just I planned to do it when I was pretty much putting it to rest.
Tom
If you want more than just to write for yourself, you're going to have to let people see your work at some point. It's a fact of life than anything good will be stolen but the biggest thieves aren't your fellow writers but the producers that you're going to eventually send your script in to.
As was rightly pointed out in an earlier thread, the moment you write something original, you own the copyright. In a dispute over copyright the problem is proof of prior ownership. I generally email / mail copies of scripts to myself and friends for very basic proof of copyright. It's not watertight.
I've opened up this discussion as a new thread in the Writers' section. Let's get some of the others who know more about the subject to tell you the real situation re: copyright.
Yeah, I totally agree, I;d be more than happy to let you guys read it. Man, the last thing I want to do is give the impression I'm some paranoid guy! I've only just got here! 
It was just a general concern really, not specific to here, not by a long shot, so no offence.
Tell you what, I'll post a synopsis and a sample from the script in the critic forum (rather than post all thirty pages) and then I'll post the whole thing up if and when I get a site up and running.
Ok there's a synopsis and an extract in the critics forum