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Wed November 12 2008
Andrew Gillman, famed television director of such classics as The Day Today, compared notes with Peter about the way in which agents return - or don&r...
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Andrew Gillman, famed television director of such classics as The Day Today, compared notes with Peter about the way in which agents return - or don’t return - phone calls. Yes, we did address
this issue in show number 79... and that’s the trouble, really. In today's Write Report, Donna's mother is eighty years old - yay! In lesser news, authors now need to be careful of calling
anyone...
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Andrew Gillman, famed television director of such classics as The Day Today, compared notes with Peter about the way in which agents return - or don’t return - phone calls. Yes, we did address
this issue in show number 79... and that’s the trouble, really. In today's Write Report, Donna's mother is eighty years old - yay! In lesser news, authors now need to be careful of calling
anyone British - apparently, it's been deemed to be a racist term. All this plus our obligatory Madonna story, too! Got news for us - or a comment? Then drop it into our Open Inbox:
http://drop.io/litopia.
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Tue November 11 2008
Giving notes... it's what editors and some agents do... how do you take them? And how do you receive them? Peter and director Andrew Gillman discuss w...
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Giving notes... it's what editors and some agents do... how do you take them? And how do you receive them? Peter and director Andrew Gillman discuss ways of providing feedback to creative people in
both writing and television - a topical subject considering this week's opening of The Pitch Room inside the Colony. In today's Write Report, Donna asks - how will you be remembered as a writer?
Should ...
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Giving notes... it's what editors and some agents do... how do you take them? And how do you receive them? Peter and director Andrew Gillman discuss ways of providing feedback to creative people in
both writing and television - a topical subject considering this week's opening of The Pitch Room inside the Colony. In today's Write Report, Donna asks - how will you be remembered as a writer?
Should first drafts and rejection letters be part of your estate and heritage? And famous French writer and journalist Pierre Pean has been acquitted of complicity in racial defamation and
provocation to racial discrimination following publication in 2005 of his book "Black Furies, White Liars (Noires Fureurs, Blancs Menteurs)" about the 1994 Rwandan genocide. His book attributed
responsibility for the attack against the plane of the former Rwandan President, Juvenal Habyarimana, to the current Rwandan President, Paul Kagame. Got news for us - or a comment? Then drop it into
our Open Inbox: http://drop.io/litopia.
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Tue November 11 2008
Continuing yesterday’s theme of how to recognize a good idea, Peter and director Andrew Gillman discuss how the UK Film Council chooses which fi...
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Continuing yesterday’s theme of how to recognize a good idea, Peter and director Andrew Gillman discuss how the UK Film Council chooses which films to back. It rejects 96% of all projects
submitted - so what are the criteria they use to decides a film’s fate - and what can writers learn from this? In today's Write Report, Donna reports that book publishers are indeed feeing more
optimi...
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Continuing yesterday’s theme of how to recognize a good idea, Peter and director Andrew Gillman discuss how the UK Film Council chooses which films to back. It rejects 96% of all projects
submitted - so what are the criteria they use to decides a film’s fate - and what can writers learn from this? In today's Write Report, Donna reports that book publishers are indeed feeing more
optimistic, post-election. And what of Joe the Plummer's book deal? Who knows... And Jack the Ripper strikes (yet) again as Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital prepares to release file on the #1 suspect.
There's a book deal there, somewhere. Got news for us - or a comment? Then drop it into our Open Inbox: http://drop.io/litopia.
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Sun November 09 2008
How do you recognize a good idea when it occurs? In today's LITOPIA DAILY, Peter is joined by British television director Andrew Gillman to discuss th...
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How do you recognize a good idea when it occurs? In today's LITOPIA DAILY, Peter is joined by British television director Andrew Gillman to discuss this most fundamental of all questions for the
writer. In today's Write Report, Donna reports that children's book sales look to stay strong over the winter period. And novels such as The Kite Runner should be required reading for those who wish
to und...
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How do you recognize a good idea when it occurs? In today's LITOPIA DAILY, Peter is joined by British television director Andrew Gillman to discuss this most fundamental of all questions for the
writer. In today's Write Report, Donna reports that children's book sales look to stay strong over the winter period. And novels such as The Kite Runner should be required reading for those who wish
to understand the most pressing global issues of our times, says a team from Manchester University and the London School of Economics. Eve is having a break this week: she'll be back soon! Got news
for us - or a comment? Then drop it into our Open Inbox: http://drop.io/litopia.
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Sun November 09 2008
On LITOPIA AFTER DARK’s panel tonight are regulars Donna Ballman and Dave Bartram, more than ably assisted by isle of man writer John Quirk and ...
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On LITOPIA AFTER DARK’s panel tonight are regulars Donna Ballman and Dave Bartram, more than ably assisted by isle of man writer John Quirk and British publisher-turned US-uber-agent Sarah
Davies. The biggest news this week isn’t that Walter the Farting Dog is headed to the big screen - significant though that is. Since being published in 2001, this modern epic and its four
sequels hav...
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On LITOPIA AFTER DARK’s panel tonight are regulars Donna Ballman and Dave Bartram, more than ably assisted by isle of man writer John Quirk and British publisher-turned US-uber-agent Sarah
Davies. The biggest news this week isn’t that Walter the Farting Dog is headed to the big screen - significant though that is. Since being published in 2001, this modern epic and its four
sequels have sold millions of copies worldwide (the movie of the flatulent pooch will be produced by the Farrelly brothers and will be scripted by Joel Cohen, whose previous work includes "No Country
For Old Men," and "Fargo"). No, the really big news - from the UK - is Sachsgate. During BBC Radio 2’s Russell Brand Show, both Russell Brand and Jonathan "I’m paid more than 1000 BBC
news journalists" Ross made a series of obscene prank phone calls to much-loved actor Andrew Sachs, leaving messages on his answerphone stating that Russell Brand had had sex with Andrew’s
granddaughter, 23-year old Georgina Baillie. The BBC said it was "not aware of receiving a complaint from Mr Sachs". However, after British prime Minsiter Gordon Brown intervened, the number of
complaints topped 40,000. The Director General of the BBC returned home early from his holiday in Italy, the television watchdog, Ofcom, launched an enquiry, Brand resigned, the much-respected
Controller of Radio 2 resigned and Ross was suspended without pay for 3 months. And now, it appears that sales of Jonathan Ross's presciently titled memoir Why Do I Say These Things? have plunged in
the week after the "Sachsgate" affair. Apparently, the British public has gone off both Jonathan and Russell in a big, big way. After setting the BBC bang to rights, our noble panelists turn their
attention to George W. Bush’s memoirs (why haven’t they sold?), the Google digitization settlement (have authors just been fleeced?), the deaths of Michael Crichton and Studs Terkel, and
the ten most irritating phrases in the English language. All this, plus our regular mayhem of games and other mental gyrations next week, why not join us live in the chatroom and take part!
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