Seven of the eight places in corporation’s new Writers’ Academy won by women
It is an industry that has been dominated for years by men but the tide appears to be turning for female TV writers after a search by the
BBC to find the next creator of a hit series like Bodyguard resulted in women winning all but one of the places in its new Writers’ Academy.
Earlier this year the corporation’s production arm, BBC Studios, began a hunt to find a new generation of writers it hopes will follow in the footsteps of the likes of Jed Mercurio, who penned Line of Duty and Bodyguard, and Sally Wainwright, who wrote Gentleman Jack and Happy Valley.