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Old 24-05-2014, 23:10
EddyEagal
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I was always under the illusion that soap writers didn't get a huge say in the running of plots. I thought they were given stories, and then had the job of writing them up into scripts.

From interviews with Stuart Blackburn, it looks like the writers do actually have a high degree of input into the different plots. He said that it was the writers who came up with this entire Tina storyline, not the storylining team.

Do we know if other soaps allow for their writers to run plots?
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Old 24-05-2014, 23:12
Joe_Zel
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Eastenders and I imagine all the soaps have story conferences where most of the creative team get together and I imagine anyone can pitch ideas/stories.
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Old 25-05-2014, 07:42
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At EastEnders, the core writers (people like Daran Little, Jeff Povey, Matt Evans, Rob Gittins etc) attend story conferences with story liners and senior producers, story producers and the executive producer and they throw ideas out there.

Then the story liners take these ideas and tune them into story lines, and present them to the story producer who then presents it to the Executive Producer for approval.

Sometimes though, the executive producer will have an idea and then gets the story liners to map it out as a long term story.

The story liners will also work on stories and create them, but they might not make it to air. So then they will be kept and might be used in the future.
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