Channel 4 Writing for TV Award 2025 winners announced
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The winners of the Channel 4 Writing for TV Awards 2025 were revealed at an event on 30 September at Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne.
The awards provide emerging television writers in the North of England with unique professional opportunities to propel their careers.
All four winners will each receive mentoring, a £3,000 cash bursary and a long-term placement with a leading production company, funded by Channel 4’s training and development initiative, 4Skills.
The winners are as follows:
- Jack Hartley who will have a placement with Warp Films, which produced the award-winning global hit Adolescence and series This is England.
- Chanse Campbell who will have a placement with Rope Ladder Fiction, the production company behind long-running school drama Waterloo Road.
- Cai Odu who will have a placement with FilmNation Entertainment, whose recent productions include Chris O’Dowd’s Small Town, Big Story, and the award-winning HBO mini-series I Know This Much Is True.
- Tania Ferreyra who will have a placement with Bonafide Films, whose productions include the Bafta-winning Mood, and acclaimed drama The Last Post.
The Channel 4 Writing for Television Awards were established in 2014 to offer new television writers based in the North of England unique professional opportunities. Over the last 11 years the awards have supported the early careers of writers including: Sharma Angel-Walfall, currently a writer on the new series of Doctor Who; Bafta-nominated Jayshree Patel whose episodes for Hollyoaks were submitted for a BAFTA; and Adam Bennett-Lea, who received a commission from Bonafide and Channel 4 and has worked on Waterloo Road.