BAFTA and Rocliffe are currently calling for scripts for the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing forum focused on Television Drama.

The competition offers entrants the chance to present their work to influential members of the television industries. 

The script selection panel for this year’s BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum focused on Television Drama will be Lucy Richer (Commissioning Editor, BBC Independent Drama, The Casual Vacancy), Serena Bowman (Head of Development, Company Pictures), Surian Fletcher-Jones (Head of Development, Drama Channel 4), Phil Mulryne (Drama Republic, The Honourable Woman, My Mad Fat Diary), Emily Feller (Producer, Red Productions, Cucumber, Last Tango in Halifax), Jake Lushington (Head of Drama, World Productions, Line of Duty, Code of Duty), Rebekah Wray Rogers (Producer, This is England, Utopia, This is England ’90), Lizzie Gray (Executive Producer, Sky, Apocalypde Slough, Waterloo Road), Danny Brocklehurst (Writer, The Driver, Accused, Exile, Shameless), Anthony Mestriner (Cassarotto), Iona Vrollyk (Development Executive, Tiger Aspect, Mad Fat Diary, Ripper Street, Peaky Blinders), John Jackson (Writer, Being Human, In the Flesh), Richard Cookson (Head of Development, Lovely day, Grantchester), Lawrence Cochran (Development Executive, Endor), Jonathan Lewsley (Development Editor, BBC Independent Drama), James Dormer (Writer, Strike Back, The Musketeers) and Julie Press (Macfarlane Chard Associates).

Additional panellists to be announced.

The selected extracts will be performed by a professional cast to an audience of producers, development executives, directors, actors and literary agents. BAFTA Industry guests will give live feedback to writers, previous guests have included screenwriter Paula Milne and BBC Drama Commissioning Controller Ben Stephenson.