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		<title>Age rage</title>
		<description>Discuss Age rage</description>
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			<title>Gail Renard says:</title>
			<link>http://www.writersguild.org.uk/news-a-features/tv/291-age-rage.html#comment-153</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Quite right, Peter, and the correct answer is (d) All of the above.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Gail Renard</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>peter cheevers says:</title>
			<link>http://www.writersguild.org.uk/news-a-features/tv/291-age-rage.html#comment-152</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hi Enjoyed this artcile very much - even if if it was speckled with the ever present grit in the writers' oyster, the cri de coeur of the carp - complaint for the 'artists' lot. I always found it was the gatekeepers who were the culprits, you know, readers, directors, producers, those, parasitic, creeping Jesuses who pad round the corridors of tht BBC. Now what was it that Nietzsche, "...it is the educators who need to be educated."]]></description>
			<dc:creator>peter cheevers</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Gail Renard says:</title>
			<link>http://www.writersguild.org.uk/news-a-features/tv/291-age-rage.html#comment-146</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@ Young Turk: A proportion of Writers' Academy intake bite the dust and sometimes never even make it to the screen. The BBC have no foolproof method.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Gail Renard</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 03:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Gail Renard says:</title>
			<link>http://www.writersguild.org.uk/news-a-features/tv/291-age-rage.html#comment-145</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Ielevision writing is one of the few professions where age and experience often isn't honoured. So much for the 10,000 hours rule. Of course there must always be room and encouragement for new writers, which is how we all got our starts. But one also questions why certain series prefer inexperienced writers. A cynic might say they're cheaper; more likely to do what they're told even if they think it wrong creatively and are more disposable. Meanwhile a whole generation of writers have been disenfranchised through no fault of their own; often the very people who contributed to the series' original success. Only by getting a variation of writers of different ages, backgrounds and experiences will viewers get exciting original shows. Otherwise television companies might as well use a computer generated Identi-Script programme and cut out the middle man altogether.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Gail Renard</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 03:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Young Turk says:</title>
			<link>http://www.writersguild.org.uk/news-a-features/tv/291-age-rage.html#comment-138</link>
			<description><![CDATA[If it makes you feel any better, I'm fed up with being considered too young to write for television drama! When I go into meetings, my age is almost always remarked on. Many producers often ask how old I am outright, usually with a hint of scepticism if not condescension. I too spend time writing proposals and getting enthusiastic about projects that will never see the light of day. And no one has ever heard of me because I haven’t written for Skins either. Nobody hands out commissions just for being under 30, you still need a track record. Besides, isn't the average age of BBC1 viewers said to be around 55? The Writers Academy seems to be one of the last remaining avenues where new writers can get a crucial first broadcast credit when most shows are closing their doors or getting cancelled. And since they only take 8 writers out of about 500, you have to be bloody good, whatever your age.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Young Turk</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Abi says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I'm not sure - but aren't Writers' Academy applicants blind read? How would a reader know the age of the scriptwriter? I can imagine making a stab at gender - but I can't see how the process of whittling down WA applicants to a pool of bright *young* things can be done? I was an Academy Writer in my 40's and not the oldest by some 10 years in my group. In my experience "the emphasis is inevitably on youth" was just not the case, either in general discourse at the Academy or with the slant our writing took.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Abi</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Hilary Mackelden says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I don't enjoy the majority of the shows mentioned, though I used to. I also don't enjoy many new BBC comedies. Could be because they are aimed at my children's generation. But what the powers that be fail to realise is, I'm the one paying the TV licence, so I'm the one with the remote. And I'm the one staying in to watch while the younger people go out. They're too busy living life to watch programmes about it. So, if no-one wants to address my viewing preferences, figures will inevitably slump. Which, I believe, they have done.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Hilary Mackelden</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Jennifer says:</title>
			<link>http://www.writersguild.org.uk/news-a-features/tv/291-age-rage.html#comment-135</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Brilliant and well argued - and as a "mid-career" actress surviving on the odd episode of something because there are very few parts written for women my age (and those which are have a long line of not-busy-enough "A-List" actresses waiting to play them), I echo your words wholeheartedly. Thanks for speaking up!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Jennifer</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Dan Holloway says:</title>
			<link>http://www.writersguild.org.uk/news-a-features/tv/291-age-rage.html#comment-134</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This is an excellent article but falls a little into the trap of presenting dichotomies where the issue is more complex and ignores another group - those who turn to writing later in life and have neither youth nor experience - increasingly it seems writing is a career one must choose in one's youth - and yet generations of us grew up with helpful careers advisors and teachers sagely telling anyone with half a brain cell to get their qualifications before eveen thinking about a vocation.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Dan Holloway</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Shelley Silas says:</title>
			<link>http://www.writersguild.org.uk/news-a-features/tv/291-age-rage.html#comment-133</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Good piece, this is something many (specifically women) writers talk about, but I think it's a shame that you felt the need to use a pseudonym for fear of being labelled trouble.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Shelley Silas</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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