Winning Script to Screen mini-ep premieres today
The winning entry of the Olympic-themed Script to Screen contest will be shown on the CBBC Channel later today!
Round two of the competition was launched in January. The winners have today been revealed as pupils from Ashdene Primary School in Wilmslow, ahead of the premiere of their three-minute episode on this afternoon’s Blue Peter. Hand picked by Steven Moffat and Caroline Skinner, it stars the Doctor and Amy and features the Weeping Angels. It was filmed at the show’s new Roath Lock studios in Cardiff Bay.
“It is unbelievable,” said Irene Spawton, Year 6 teacher at Ashdene Primary School. “I couldn’t believe it when I got the call to say that the children’s script had been chosen as the winner. They worked so hard and came up with some brilliant ideas. I am so proud of them – meeting the Doctor and Amy Pond is a fantastic experience.”
Doctor Who’s executive producer, Caroline Skinner, commented: “We loved reading the scripts from schools across the UK. The standard of entries was truly outstanding. It was brilliant to see so many children being creative in developing their story for the Doctor.”
Meanwhile, BBC Learning’s Executive Producer, Katy Jones, who also helped to choose the winner, has said that the competition proved successful as it set out to “inspire and capture the imagination of storytellers of the future”. “We are thrilled that so many schools engaged with it,” she said. “There was so much real talent displayed in the entries. The final episode is a testament to the hard work the school put in their entry.”
The mini-episode, Good as Gold, is on this afternoon’s Blue Peter at 5.45pm on CBBC…
Script To Screen is a great idea. How inspiring it must be for the kids to be able to be creative and have fun, finally to see their work acted out by The Doctor and Amy Pond themselves on TV.
It’s one of those once in a lifetime experiences.
I knew someone would have the Weeping Angels involved. People just love to terrify Amy with the Angels :P
I haven’t seen it yet, I’ll have to wait till someone uploads it
@JC
BBC iPlayer is being slow with putting Blue Peter online for some reason. At this rate, I’ll go to bed before it comes online. Wouldn’t that be a first, Blue Peter being past my bedtime? :P
It’ll be on youtube now anyway :P
It’s on iPlayer now! :) It was quite good, actually, particularly the very end.
@TSG
I quite enjoyed it meself. Did not expect that to happen at the end though. That was surprising :)
Watching it on YouTube slightly ruined it for me (all the comments about continuity, the Doctor not carrying the Torch etc.) but it was a nice little episode with a great ending. Kind of wish it was longer really.
Finally seen it and yeah, it was quite good, considering it was written by kids.
As for the criticisms, of course it wasn’t correct in terms of canon and since it isn’t part of the series, who cares?
I really liked that the Olympic Torch was able to really damage the Weeping Angel. That was actually part of “Fear Her” too, the power of the Olympic Torch because of what it represented.
Of course the 10th Doctor was the one to take the torch and light the flame, so the bloke being chased and running into the 11th Doctor’s Tardis would have been the 10th Doctor, but it really doesn’t matter. They’re kids, it’s a fun competition and canon can take a break.
That ending was very good as well, very Doctor Who, which is impressive.
There’s a small mistake, the episode wasn’t filmed at the new Roath Lock studios. I have watched the making of this episode on Blue Peter and I recognise the competition winners were standing in the main entrance of their old Upper Boat studios as I have recently been there. It must have been filmed before the production moved studios.