Entries now open until 17:00hrs (GMT) on 15th January 2021.

Sony Pictures Television and Stellify Media, in partnership with Northern Ireland Screen, are launching a brand-new All-Ireland screenwriting prize.    The brief is for high-concept, contemporary, returnable crime drama, that can be filmed on the island of Ireland. The winning submissions will receive funded development to bring a project to pitching stage.   The competition underscores the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? producer’s  recently announced scripted division, and is tailored to co-managing directors Matthew Worthy and Kieran Doherty’s target of producing long-running, low-cost, high-volume series, specifically close-ended, ‘story of the week’ crime dramas.

Stellify Media is launching a scripted division after renewing its current terms with parent company Sony Pictures Television.

The Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? indie is targeting long-running, low-cost, high-volume series, specifically close-ended, ‘story of the week’ crime dramas, which founders and co-managing directors Kieran Doherty and Matt Worthy hope will “sell internationally”.

The duo are hoping to emulate Mike Benson’s Chalkboard TV and Studio Lambert which have successfully branched out into drama from their unscripted roots.

Northern Ireland-based indie, Stellify Media, has been commissioned by Channel 4 to make a celebrity property show like no other. In an innovative and barking mad new format, cameras go inside the locked-down houses of well-known faces around the country. But there’s no ordinary film crew on this show. The filming is done by the celebrity homeowners’ dogs. Snoop Dogs