
06/06/2025
IADT
Level 9
DL135
10 Weeks / Online
€1,700 (fee subsidies to be confirmed soon)
Learn how to develop, write and pitch an industry standard TV drama treatment.
TV drama has changed radically since the arrival of streaming platforms. Audiences are hungry for drama in hybrid genres, where the quality and richness of the writing is key to the success of the series. Writers have become the creative drivers of productions – the showrunners – the creative leaders of productions where in film the director is often that person.
Production companies, broadcasters and streamers are always looking for the next new idea that will capture audience. This course explores current trends and how to ensure ideas, regardless of genre, standout as authentic.
Working with Eilish Kent, a recognised educator in this area with extensive industry expertise in writing and commissioning for television, we have developed this course to focus on developing and writing TV Drama.
The course follows an industry standard, development process that underpins a professional approach to a career in screenwriting for TV. You will be taught the craft of TV drama writing that will enable you to complete a pilot episode of a TV drama.
You will be required to evaluate a personal and professional strategy for the development of any work in the context of the screen industries.
The course will:
This is a single module certificate.
This 10 week course, delivered over three months, has been running for six years. Several graduates have gotten their projects into development with production companies and supported by Screen Ireland. It sits alongside our MA in Screenwriting for Film + Television which has been running successfully for over 20 years.
This course is suitable for students who have an undergraduate qualification of 2nd Class Honours or higher at Honours Degree level.
Applicants without a Level 8 qualification may be considered provided they can demonstrate Honours Degree equivalence which can be verified through the RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning) process.
IADT may ask for the contact details of a referee in some instances. You may also be asked to attend an online interview.
Graduates from this course and the MA in Screenwriting have gone on to work as full-time screenwriters, script-editors, development executives, producers, directors and third level teachers in film and on writing programmes.
The course will be delivered online on Teams and Zoom.
Wednesdays | 7pm – 9.30pm:
Saturdays:
Applications for 2025 are now open. Apply HERE
IADT operates a rolling admissions policy for graduate taught courses, with decisions issued in 4 weeks after a submitted and complete application is received. An application is incomplete until you provide all required items on the checklist (including the application fee, if applicable).
Generally, courses will remain open to applications until all places are filled.
Please email any queries to Elena Somoza, IADT Creative Futures Academy Co-ordinator, at iadt@creativefutures.ie