Sublime

Marlowe’s already here, standing on the grass. Wearing his hat and his long grey raincoat, even in this hot weather. He updates his wardrobe once every hundred years or so. It used to be doublets and pantaloons. Then it became tailcoats and powdered wigs. Since the First World War it’s been brogues, briefcase, three-piece suit. Now he’s smoking a

Every sentence should lead to the next sentence.

Introduce a Fascinating Protagonist (Protag):

Niles and Daphne became couples and ‘will they?/won’t they?’ became ‘they have’, viewers had nothing to root for. The story engine that drove each show was turned off as the characters’ goals were achieved, the questions were answered and their quests complete.

We see her face, we see her foot, and we know.

Great series come up with new scenarios and settings for each season that brilliantly continue the Compelling Crisis but with higher stakes, a new setting and a unique threat.

But what makes Holmes adaptation specifically suitable for television?

The final credit very kindly says, ‘Story by Penn Jillette,’ but Charlie changed the original story so much that it should really be a co-credit. He made it different from my idea, and 1000 times better for Black Mirror. I will add I’m not as gracious as I sound. If someone else had taken that story and changed it as much as Charlie did, there

Shut Up and Dance marked the Black Mirror co-writing debut of William Bridges, a relative newcomer to TV. William Bridges (co-writer): I credit Charlie and Annabel for very much giving me my break in the industry. I hadn’t met them before, and had virtually no credits to my name, but I’d written a spec script for a TV show that had just been sold