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Continuing yesterday’s theme of how to recognize a good idea, Peter and director Andrew Gillman discuss how the UK Film Council chooses which films to back.  It rejects 96% of all projects submitted - so what are the criteria they use to decides a film’s fate - and what can writers learn from this?  In today’s Write Report, Donna reports that book publishers are indeed feeing more optimistic, post-election.  And what of Joe the Plummer’s book deal?  Who knows… And Jack the Ripper strikes (yet) again as Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital prepares to release file on the #1 suspect.  There’s a book deal there, somewhere.

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Tags: book publishers, Fate, film council, films, jack the ripper, Plummer, psychiatric hospital, Uk Film