BAFTA Writers: Time Travel in TV Drama and Comedy

06 October 08

Supported by The Farm Group.

Time travel drama has become one of the most popular television genres of recent years although it evades easy classification - Goodnight Sweetheart is a comedy, Life On Mars is a drama, and who knows how you categorise Doctor Who...

Be it backward or forward, time travel opens so many possibilities for a writer - nothing is off limits in a world where actions can be undone or revisited multiple times.

Step aboard our very own TARDIS and watch Steven Moffat, BAFTA award-winning writer of Doctor Who, Ashley Pharoah, Emmy-winning writer of Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes and Maurice Gran, BAFTA award-winning writer of Goodnight Sweetheart for a special evening of expert insight in Cardiff.

Highlighted by clips, these inspirational writers take us on a time travel journey sharing their motivations, inspirations and secrets as to what makes a successful British drama within the multiple worlds of time travel.

The event is chaired by Laurence Marks, BAFTA award-winning comedy writer of The New Statesman, Goodnight Sweetheart and Birds of a Feather.

BAFTA Writers

This event is part of BAFTA: Writers, an exciting series of onstage discussions with the writing teams responsible for TV drama and comedy classics from the UK, as well as some well known names from the US. The series is an opportunity for writers, students, industry and the general public to celebrate the last 50 years of TV with the creative minds behind the shows, to discover how they work together, and to find inspiration for their own ideas.

In partnership with BAFTA Cymru and BBC Cymru Wales. Supported by The Atrium.

We apologise that, due to technical problems during recording, there may be sound interference on this webcast.

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