DLT Entertainment, co-sponsors of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, and Monkey Barrel Comedy, host of ‘Best Comedy Show’ in 2022 and 2023, have announced the launch of ‘Table Reads: New Comedy Script ...

Writing a screenplay isn’t necessarily some big mysterious artistic process. For some people who do it successfully enough times, it just becomes work. Flowery literary spices such as “inspiration” ...

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Patricia Heaton is eying a return to television with a multi-camera comedy that has received a script-to-series commitment at Fox. Heaton is set to star in and executive produce ...

The writers behind 2017’s “The Big Sick,” Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, told Variety that they have finished writing the script for a new romantic comedy they hope to start producing and ...

What is the Open Call opportunity for script submissions? Rather than accepting scripts year-round, we have distinct submission windows for scripts which are announced on the BBC Writers Opportunities ...

In Variety’s new feature, The One That Got Away, Emmy contenders reflect on one of their projects that never saw the light of day, was canceled too soon or that they’d like to revisit some day. When ...

At a recent Television Critics Association panel for his Apple TV+ series, Servant, Shymalan revealed that Unbreakable was originally much funnier. Now, he regrets taking the jokes out. Shyamalan said ...

Westport Country Playhouse will present a Script in Hand playreading of the comedy, "Ripcord," written by David Lindsay-Abaire on Monday, November 14, at 7 p.m. Lindsay-Abaire is currently represented ...

EXCLUSIVE: Up-and-coming actress/writer Romy Reiner has sold a half-hour single camera spec script Born Again Virgin to Warner Bros Television. Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ...

How did rookie screenwriter Michael Arndt hit a classic comedy home run his first time up with "Little Miss Sunshine"? Simple -- it took only one year to write, 100 drafts and another five years ...

Alex Bernard is a writer, director, and comedian based in Los Angeles. In addition to his work with Collider, he writes Spotify mystery podcasts, comedy, scripts, and prose. Most recently, he directed ...