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Cathy Durant Show, September 29, 2026

Cathy Durant Show, September 29, 2026

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The Cathy Durant Show From Paramedic to Screenwriter: Doctor Who, EastEnders, and the Maverick Script Code with Glen McCoy Glen McCoy is a screenwriter who has written for well know television shows in the UK, been commissioned to write screenplays for features by production houses, has written hundreds of corporate scripts for some of the world’s largest brands and has had his most recent screenplay optioned with pre-production starting in 2027 with well known 'A Listers' as cast. He was on the orginal writing team for long running drama series EASTENDERS as well as two other similar shows and has even written for DOCTOR WHO. His corporate commissions have come from Innocent Drinks, Johnson & Johnson, the UK Home Office, Samsung and Land Rover. He also created and wrote an internal ‘soap’ series for training purposes within Vodafone UK and recently was commissioned by International coaching providers in the UK, OTD for a micro drama series. Glen is also an author with 16 books in print including a Doctor Who novel and business titles like Guerrilla Coaching, Extraordinary Customer Care, Power Presenter and his latest business title BUSINESS SCREENWRITING being published by am American Publisher affiliated to Harvard Publishing. Glen has just launched a brand new YouTube channel: Maverick Script Code with a complete system for screenwriters of any level of experience that’s based on what he’s learned over the past 3 decades - and is completely free for subscribers. UK screenwriter Glen McCoy joins Cathy Irby Durant to trace his path from London paramedic to Doctor Who and EastEnders writer, and to unveil his Maverick Script Code method for teaching screenwriting. Becoming a Screenwriter by Instinct Cathy Irby Durant opens the show by welcoming Glen McCoy, a UK screenwriter and author, as the first professional writer to appear on the program. She asks whether he was born to write or learned to write, and McCoy answers that he believes writers are born, comparing a child who absorbs storytelling from watching television to one who has to relearn it later. He recalls writing his school's play at age ten, a piece he calls "The King Who Took Sunshine," and says that moment felt like the universe telling him to take drama seriously. McCoy explains that before scriptwriting he worked as one of the first paramedics in London and visited a fire station in Ohio, experiences that later fed his stories. He also wrote a nonfiction book on paramedic work and found a publisher, a first step that leads, almost by accident, toward his television career. Durant calls his account heartwarming as the interview gets underway. Landing an Agent and a BBC Commission McCoy describes how he sought literary representation after publishing his paramedic book, cold-calling London's top agency and getting redirected, with a hint of pride, to a "less busy" one. That second agency takes him on, and two weeks later calls to say he has been commissioned to write two episodes of a primetime BBC television show, despite his having never written a script before. He borrows a library book called "How to Write Television Scripts" and works to the deadline, and both scripts are accepted and produced. McCoy says landing so easily made him assume he already knew everything, a decision he now calls "a big, big mistake," because he never went back to learn the craft's tools and techniques properly. That gap later leaves him lost in script meetings full of unfamiliar jargon. He tells Durant his real message to new writers is that confidence in one's storytelling ability matters more than workshops, gurus, or books, though a few essentials still need to be learned along the way. From Medical Dramas to EastEnders McCoy explains that his paramedic background directly shaped his first professional job, since that debut BBC show was a medical drama drawing on real incidents, including what he believes was British television's first depiction of a patient trapped under a train. He credits a script editor named Tony Holland, who deliberately recruited a set number of "baby writers" each year because, in Holland's view, publicly funded broadcasting owed newcomers a way into the craft. Holland later calls McCoy about a new show he is launching, which becomes "EastEnders," and McCoy writes one of its earliest episodes during what he calls an exciting launch period. Durant marvels at the range of well-known British dramas behind him and promises listeners they will next discuss "Doctor Who," teasing that McCoy's own path into that legendary series is just as unlikely as everything that came before it, before the show breaks for a commercial pause. Writing Two Episodes of Doctor Who Back from the break, McCoy tells the story of pitching himself into "Doctor Who" after watching an episode with his son and thinking he could write a better story. His agent initially refuses, warning the show is reserved for experienced writers, then relents by ...
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