I’m happy to announce the publication of a special issue of the Journal of Screenwriting focused on “Women in Screenwriting” that I co-edited with my SRN colleague Rose Ferrell, lecturer at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, at Edith Cowan University.  While focusing on females was our first mandate, our second mandate was to be … Continue reading "Announcing the Journal of Screenwriting Special Issue: Women in Screenwriting with Editors, Dr. Rosanne Welch and Dr. Rose Ferrell"

Watch this entire presentation Subscribe to Rosanne’s Channel and receive notice of each new video!   Transcript: Just in the United States, this show finished a six-season run. It’s from England and we’d always had programming from England because we had that in our national channel always brought in stuff from England because in the … Continue reading "41 UK TV In The US from Why Researching Screenwriters Has Always Mattered [Video] (39 seconds)"

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Alex Miller, the Senior Director of Admissions at Stephens College the other day to talk about our MFA in TV and Screenwriting. Alex had collected some of the basic questions asked by applicants so we answered them over this short 10 minute video.  If you’d like to … Continue reading "Learn more about the Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting in this Q&A with Executive Director, Dr. Rosanne Welch"

Thanks to the gracious invitation from my Screenwriting Research Network colleague Paolo Russo – and a grant he was able to procure (and in the before-Covid time) I was able to spend a week at Oxford Brookes University working with the screenwriting masters students in Paolo’s course. At the culmination of the week, I gave … Continue reading "02 Writers Matter from There And Back Again: Writing and Developing for American TV [Video] (1 minute 3 seconds)"

Watch this entire presentation Subscribe to Rosanne’s Channel and receive notice of each new video!   Transcript: This is actually a program from New Zealand. Who knew New Zealand made television, but I have my students write spec scripts — speculative scripts — which are their own versions of a show that already exists to … Continue reading "40 The Almighty Johnsons from New Zealand from Why Researching Screenwriters Has Always Mattered [Video] (1 minute 12 seconds)"

Thanks to the gracious invitation from my Screenwriting Research Network colleague Paolo Russo – and a grant he was able to procure (and in the before-Covid time) I was able to spend a week at Oxford Brookes University working with the screenwriting masters students in Paolo’s course. At the culmination of the week, I gave … Continue reading "01 Introduction from There And Back Again: Writing and Developing for American Television]: from Freelancing to Writers Rooms [Video] (1 minute)"

Watch this entire presentation Subscribe to Rosanne’s Channel and receive notice of each new video!   Transcript: In my own Television viewing experience, I’ve had the chance to see all of these programs which I never would have seen. Commisaroio Montalbano is the most famous detective show in Italy. Again, that helps me feel more … Continue reading "39 My Own Favorite International TV Shows from Why Researching Screenwriters Has Always Mattered [Video] (1 minute 31 seconds)"

Watch this entire presentation Subscribe to Rosanne’s Channel and receive notice of each new video!   Transcript: They had to have the United States version, so they remade the TV show. They called it the Red Band Society and they didn’t understand the culture of Italy. The show In Italy is all about hope and … Continue reading "38 More On International TV Shows and the US from Why Researching Screenwriters Has Always Mattered [Video] (1 minute 18 seconds)"

Watch this entire presentation Subscribe to Rosanne’s Channel and receive notice of each new video!   Transcript: This is a film — excuse me — a tv show that started in Europe. I learned about it through an Italian screenwriting colleague — Braccialetti Rossi and it’s about a group of young children in a hospital … Continue reading "37 International TV Shows and the US from Why Researching Screenwriters Has Always Mattered [Video] (41 seconds)"

Watch this entire presentation Subscribe to Rosanne’s Channel and receive notice of each new video!   Transcript: That’s why these services are so important to what we’re going to be able to do in the future because so many films are now co-productions with Netflix and they know they want to keep this worldwide audience … Continue reading "36 Streaming Companies and World Culture from Why Researching Screenwriters Has Always Mattered [Video] (1 minute 19 seconds)"