Sitcom writer gives masterclass

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North East writer Elliott Kerrigan, who created Boy Meets Girl - the first sitcom to feature a trans actor in a lead role - has the BBC Writers Room to thank for his break. "To get a show on TV is so hard - it's like winning the lottery," said Kerrigan, who lives in Cramlington, Northumberland, and admitted to knowing nobody in television when he first put pen to paper. Winning the Writers Room Trans Comedy Award took the writer from his "bedroom to the BBC". He continued: "It changed my life and I'm really grateful - if it wasn't for the Writers Room, God knows what I'd be doing." Kerrigan was speaking at an RTS North East and the Border session on scriptwrit-ing, co-produced with the BBC Writers Room, at the Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle.