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No offence but…

If you find yourself about to use these words, it’s probably a good time to STFU as whatever you say is likely to be offensive. Someone said this to me in a meeting recently and I found it excessively irritating. Possibly because the person identified ME as someone who would be offended by what they […]

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Writing for TV

This week I thought I’d tell you what’s involved with writing for TV, which in South Africa, most often means writing for soapies or long-running series. It starts off with your work being commissioned. What happens is that the channel will commission say a thirteen part drama, to test the waters, see if the audience

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