Charlie brooker

Russell T Davies, Dr who went in to TV production to meet writer and get to know them, he was 30 when he started writing, he wrote a children program called why don't you? He was happy when he first saw his work on television. He improvises names then makes them up

Paul abbot, shameless and state or play, he wanted to be a surgeon but then he started writing. He needed it as a vent valve, he wrote for Jackie magazine, within a year of that he was on coronation street, 10 hours a day non stop, now he gets 3 days out of 10. He has to pay people to force him to sit down and write

Graham lineham, father ted. It crowd, wrote to producer and  we have sketch's that will save you. Visual gags. He starts panicking for ideas then research online and thinks of if anything he thought was funny, used a real life news report in the it crowd and uses moss to be the director of the Iraq war.

Jesse Armstrong and Sam bain, peep show and fresh meat , 1st job was dockety show, they did sketches and comedies, did children comedies, wrote sketches for radio 4 they do a lot of detailed scene by scene breakdowns then write dialogue after, they try get someone else in to bounce ideas off, starting without a story outline can hurt you apparently.

Tony Jordan, EastEnders Sent a spect script (sample of work)  in to BBC London and they didn't like the script but they likes him and got him to write EastEnders, writes at 11, has a break at half 11, works from  1 until 2, then realize he hasn't done anything and start again at 6, he enjoys starting on a blank sheet of work. For dialogue he uses the same heading then he will think what the characters will say then have a conversation in his own head