All proposals must be submitted via our e-Commissioning system. This enables producers to track their submissions online. Proposals are not accepted via email.
There are 4 drama commissioning teams:
- England (Polly Hill)
- Scotland (Anne Mensah)
- Northern Ireland (Stephen Wright)
- Wales (Piers Wenger)
Timeline
• All proposals are registered on a confidential database. Independent suppliers receive an acknowledgement of their proposal within one week of receipt.
• There are four potential responses to a drama proposal: the project may be put into paid development; it may be put into unpaid development; it may be rejected; or it may be 'withdrawn', i.e. "pending further discussion", but only with the agreement of the Indie.
• Independent suppliers will be notified within four weeks of receipt of proposal. Where there is an expression of interest, the negotiation for paid development must commence within six weeks of interest being expressed.
• The timetable to commission will then be subject to negotiation and contract between the supplier and the BBC and will be specific to the characteristics of the proposal - i.e. writer and talent timetables. Independent suppliers will be notified two weeks to deadlines becoming due.
• Projects may be held over in exceptional circumstances but only with the formal agreement of the supplier.
Queries
• At any point in the development period, an external supplier may write to the development executive asking for a progress report and be guaranteed a response within 10 working days of receipt.
Page last updated 28 July 2010
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