Full House family! Candace Cameron Bure, Marla Sokoloff and more stars from the long-running sitcom have kids of their own off screen.
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EXCLUSIVE: A former Skins star, a Criminal Defence Solicitor and a TV writer have been selected for training body ScreenSkills third New Writers Programme delivered by The Responder producer Dancing Ledge Productions’.
Larissa Hope, Abigail Rolling and Jess Jackson will be paired with New Girl writer Camilla Blackett, Unforgotten scribe Chris Lang and The Long Song’s Sarah Williams respectively, with a fourth unannounced awardee set to link up with Giri/Haji’s Joe Barton.
The scheme, which is carried out in association with ITV, has been running for three years and the 2022 edition will be fully funded by ScreenSkills’ High-end TV Skills Fund.
The budding writers are given a non-refundable bursary to write a pilot episode for their own original TV series. The mentor will give feedback through the writing process, provide the benefit of their expertise, offer encouragement and help place the project with a production company and/or broadcaster.
Hope played Jal in the first two seasons of hit UK series Skins in the late-noughties and has since studied psychology and creative writing and moved into filmmaking. Rolling has worked in a Magistrates Court for more than 25 years, doing stand-up comedy in her spare time, and Jackson has several TV projects in development with indies, with pilot The Drip making the 2019 Brit List of best unmade scripts.
The news comes in a week that two major shows from previous New Writers Programme alumni aired on BBC One and ITV respectively, with Tony Schumacher’s The Responder and Daniel Brierley’s Trigger Point both launching above 4M viewers. The pair were mentored by Jimmy McGovern and Jed Mercurio respectively.
ScreenSkills Director of High-end Television Kaye Elliott said:”We are really
Full House family! Candace Cameron Bure, Marla Sokoloff and more stars from the long-running sitcom have kids of their own off screen.
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crash, Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger said.Kennedy is being charged as an adult with the crime, which is a felony, the prosecutor's office said.Kennedy advanced into the Top 5 of the ABC reality show last year, but dropped out of the singing competition after a video circulated of him sitting next to someone wearing what appeared to be a Ku Klux Klan hood.On Twitter and Instagram, Kennedy apologized for the video, saying “it displayed actions that were not meant to be taken in that way.”Kennedy’s mother, Anita Guy, told news outlets that the video was filmed when Kennedy was 12 and had been taken out of context. She said Kennedy had been imitating characters from the film “The Strangers: Prey at Night.”Kennedy's hometown is listed as Roebuck, which is just south of Spartanburg.
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