As a lifelong square-eyed TV obsessive, my ambition to work in TV began in 2020. This was after winning the Sky Atlantic Sixteen-to-Eighteen Science-Fiction Writing Competition. In the following months of Lockdown, I sat in my garden watching TV on my laptop, reading BBC Writers Room scripts, and writing my own. This period of study of television is my only education in writing (and probably shows).
Following graduation, I was successfully inducted as a Trainee Production Coordinator for MAMA Youth, a prestigious TV Training Course for disadvantaged people, awarded a BAFTA in recognition of its work just last year. In the eighteen months since, I have worked over a dozen jobs as Runner and Script Reader. In my spare time, I am currently writing and producing a non-profit short film.
I like to write existential high drama (with jokes). I’ve written about a roadtrip through space, a home invasion horror in a dream, God’s corpse bobbing over The Atlantic, and a filing cabinet holding every redacted document in history; every deleted internet forum, every painted-over Van Gogh, every backspaced confession of love, every script never made to screen.
You can read my work here, as well as essays and journal entries tracking my TV career.
Harrison Whittle.
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