Daniel Peak
Blog posts in total 4
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It'll Never Work
Part of the process of developing a programme idea is an endless series of conversations about what "works". Does it work to set the whole series in a coffin? Does it work to tell the whole story in flashbacks? Or (in my case) does it work to have a lead character who only speaks Bulgarian? T...
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Commission Impossible
Yesterday morning I went to TV Centre to pitch my series idea to a commissioner. I'd planned to use the two-hour train journey from Manchester to prepare witty and intriguing things to say in the meeting, but then I bought a newspaper, tried to do the crossword and was fast asleep by Stoke. So I...
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Definitely Maybe
In my last post I mentioned Project X, an idea I'd submitted to a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ executive in the hope that she'd commission a script. Well, her verdict is in, and it's... ...wait for it... ...lukewarm. It's a maybe. She's not sure. She needs to be convinced. So the n...
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Project X
Hello. This is my first entry here, so as new kid on the blog I should probably introduce myself a bit: Hello. My name is Daniel. Hello. I've been working as a full-time writer for four years, writing sitcoms and children's programmes, and last year I wrote my first series I'm With Stupid fo...