What does a script producer do?
The script producer oversees and manages the script team. That would be the script editors, the script secretary, the researcher which we’ll be getting soon, and the assistant script editor. I guess it’s about ten people. They’re also a point of contact for the writers, and particularly the core writing team – we have a group of writers who are signed up to write multiple episodes in a series, and they come to our long term storylining conferences. I suppose it’s to do with everything script really. And we’ve started a shadow scheme to find new writers, so organising that as well. What’s the shadow scheme? It’s relatively new. It’s something that I do with one of the script editors who’s dedicated to looking at new writing with me. But I do it alongside my normal job, so we’re flexible with the writers depending on what their commitments are and what our shooting deadlines are. We did an induction where we invited people with, relatively, quite a bit of writing experience. So people th
