Tianna Johnson’s “Obeah” has topped The Brit List, an annual league table of top unproduced screenplays from the U.K.
Established in 2007 and similar to The Black List in the U.S., The Brit List is compiled from recommendations by British production companies, talent agencies, sales companies, financiers, distributors and broadcasters.
The list includes both feature and television screenplays.
Johnson’s urban fantasy drama, which scored fifteen recommendations, tells the story of a woman on the hunt for a serial killer. The teleplay, set in North West London, incorporates indigenous spiritual practices from the Caribbean.
In second place with thirteen recommendations was “Maps” by Jessica Drewett, a sci-fi drama set in an installer mine.
To be included on the list scripts need at least 7 recommendations.
In 2021, 300 scripts were submitted of which 18 received the requisite number of recommendations. Nearly a third were feature scripts. 65% of the list is made up of female writers.
Established in 2007 and similar to The Black List in the U.S., The Brit List is compiled from recommendations by British production companies, talent agencies, sales companies, financiers, distributors and broadcasters.
The list includes both feature and television screenplays.
Johnson’s urban fantasy drama, which scored fifteen recommendations, tells the story of a woman on the hunt for a serial killer. The teleplay, set in North West London, incorporates indigenous spiritual practices from the Caribbean.
In second place with thirteen recommendations was “Maps” by Jessica Drewett, a sci-fi drama set in an installer mine.
To be included on the list scripts need at least 7 recommendations.
In 2021, 300 scripts were submitted of which 18 received the requisite number of recommendations. Nearly a third were feature scripts. 65% of the list is made up of female writers.
- 11/22/2021
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s Brit List of best unproduced UK film and TV scripts is topped by Tianna Johnson’s urban drama series Obeah, which received fifteen recommendations. The North London-set thriller follows a woman on the hunt for a serial killer. Scroll down for the lineup in full.
Close behind with thirteen industry recommendations is sci-fi TV project Maps by Jessi Drewett. The drama follows a woman who assumes a false identity to work in an interstellar mine and save her family from debt.
This year’s lineup includes projects set up with BBC, Heyday, Bad Wolf and Company Pictures, but the two highest-rated scripts are currently without producers.
Inspired by the U.S. Black List, the scripts showcase is compiled each year from recommendations by British production companies, talent agencies, sales companies, financiers, distributors and broadcasters.
In 2021, the bar for inclusion moved higher, with scripts needing a minimum of seven recommendations for inclusion.
Close behind with thirteen industry recommendations is sci-fi TV project Maps by Jessi Drewett. The drama follows a woman who assumes a false identity to work in an interstellar mine and save her family from debt.
This year’s lineup includes projects set up with BBC, Heyday, Bad Wolf and Company Pictures, but the two highest-rated scripts are currently without producers.
Inspired by the U.S. Black List, the scripts showcase is compiled each year from recommendations by British production companies, talent agencies, sales companies, financiers, distributors and broadcasters.
In 2021, the bar for inclusion moved higher, with scripts needing a minimum of seven recommendations for inclusion.
- 11/22/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Tom Hiddleston will no doubt always be best known for playing the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Loki, which is hardly surprising when you consider it marked the breakthrough role of his career that brought him worldwide attention, and six of the actor’s eighteen live-action movie appearances to date have seen him suit up as the Asgardian God of Mischief.
McU fans can’t wait to see him return to the small screen in Disney Plus exclusive Loki, but before that, the 39 year-old will be seen in another small screen project from a rival streaming service. Created by Chris Dunlop, ten-episode limited series White Stork was originally in development for AMC before being picked up by Netflix, with Hiddleston playing the lead role of James Cooper.
The story follows an ambitious British politician running for office, only for some dark secrets from his past to be revealed that have the...
McU fans can’t wait to see him return to the small screen in Disney Plus exclusive Loki, but before that, the 39 year-old will be seen in another small screen project from a rival streaming service. Created by Chris Dunlop, ten-episode limited series White Stork was originally in development for AMC before being picked up by Netflix, with Hiddleston playing the lead role of James Cooper.
The story follows an ambitious British politician running for office, only for some dark secrets from his past to be revealed that have the...
- 9/4/2020
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
Filming is ongoing on the set of a new RTÉ/BBC co-porduction, 'When Harvey Met Bob'. The feature length drama chronicles the lead-up to Live Aid, an event which this year celebrates its 25th anniversary and stars Domhnall Gleeson (Sensation) as Bob Geldof, Ian Hart (Five Daughters) as Harvey Goldsmith and Antonia Cambell Hughes (The Other Side of Sleep) as Paula Yates. Great Meadow Productions commenced shooting on 'When Harvey met Bob' on Monday, July 5th and it is to have a three week shoot in Dublin. he drama's cast also features Padraic Delaney (The Wind that Shakes the Barley), Owen Roe (Val Falvey T.D.) and Chris Dunlop.
- 7/15/2010
- IFTN
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