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Pro Screenwriter Advice On Finding Work - Jason-Shane Scott
Watch the video interview on YouTube here.
The streamer, which has also ordered additional episodes of its hit 'Gabby's Dollhouse,' will debut 'Hot Wheels Let’s Race,' 'Dee & Friends
I am extremely proud to finally share that I got to write on MIGHTY MONSTERWHEELIES, coming 2024 to @netflix!
I can’t wait for you to see more. Thank you to @dreamworksanimation and our INCREDIBLE cast and crew for having me on as a freelance writer! What a joy! ✏️🎣🌙
that nytimes article with sjm was so weird it was like two little paragraphs with nothing being said. what was the point of the article? what was the journalist trying to accomplish?
29th August 1999 saw the death of Lew Schwarz, the Scottish TV scriptwriter.
Lew was born in Glasgow on April 16th, 1926, the son of an optician, and educated at the St Aloysius Jesuit College, graduating to the Holyrood Secondary Modern School.
On leaving school he took a job at the Clyde shipyards as a riveter. In 1944 he joined the RAF as a flight engineer and flew Lancaster bombers over Germany. After the war he returned to Scotland, furthering his education at Glasgow University before moving to London in the 1950s. There he took on a job as a taxi driver, married Margaret Glen of Airdrie, and in due time fathered three sons and two daughters.
It was while driving his taxi that Schwarz sold his first few comedy gags. Always a fan of radio-show comedy, he sent his samples to Richard Murdoch, then starring with Kenneth Horne in Much Binding In The Marsh, The Forces Show, and other prominent BBC series. Murdoch bought them, thus starting Schwarz on a career which would soon spread from spare time to full time.
It was through his taxi-driving that Schwarz encountered Spike Milligan, writer and star of The Goon Show. They got to chatting about comedy and Milligan invited Schwarz to come up to the office he and some writer friends used as a base. This was situated over a greengrocer's shop in Shepherd's Bush, not far from the BBC Television studios. Schwarz was delighted to meet Milligan's partners in laughter: Eric Sykes, Johnny Speight, Ray Galton, and Alan Simpson, all great names in comedy creation
Joining the group as a gag writer, Schwarz was taken on as a partner by another big name in comedy, Eric Merriman. Together they wrote their first TV series, Great Scott - It's Maynard! This starred two popular stand-up comedians, Terry Scott, who frequently played an overgrown schoolboy, and Bill Maynard, not yet the chunky character he would become. The show mixed short sketches with situation comedy, aThe Charlie Drake Shownd was a great success. In the 50′s he also wrote episodes of
Lew went on to write a host of other shows, The Army Game, Mess Mates and The Dick Emery Show in the 60′s as well as scripting 3 episodes of The Andy Stewart Show.
In the 70′s he wrote scripts for Harry Secombe, Dave Allen and Norman Wisdom, as well as writing for Carry on Laughing and the popular sitcom The Liver Birds, which Schwarz originated with Carla Lane. Schwartz also penned some mainstream drama like Crown Court, Crossroads and an episode of Space;1999.
Closing his comedy career teaching creative writing at an adult educational college, Schwarz wrote a book, The Craft of Writing TV comedy. He summed up his career thus: ''Writing comedy for television is a very serious business.''
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The Flash’s First Black Woman Writer Jess Carson talking about the diversity in the writers room and pissing off fanboys.
4/15/2021
You can watch the full live interview here
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNtP_SPKRCp/