Jul 21, 2026 · 33 min · 11 segments
Today’s episode features Renée Broome, an in-house Screenwriter and Script Editor at *Home and Away*, who's written dozens of episodes of the series and worked on more than 1,000 episodes in her…
Renae BroomeGuest
Caris BizzacaHost
Because Home and Away has, you know, it, it's on, like, every night, like, how many scripts are you assessing at the, at the once? Is it just the one script and someone else has got another one, and how does that work?
Um, like one week I will go in and I'll pick up, like, a Thursday, Friday episode.
Even though we know there's no Home and Away on a Friday, it's Thursday Part Two.
But yeah, so I'll go in and pick up, like, the last two episodes of a block of five episodes.
And then what I'll do is I'll pick up the following three episodes from the next block.
Each editor gets five scripts, and then you, you know, you're delivering them in their blocks, and then it just all starts again.
So you always have five scripts at a time that you're working on, and it's hours and hours and hours of rewriting, and you just hope that you're not stuck in a sea of blue revisions.
Because Home and Away has, you know, it, it's on, like, every night, like, how many scripts are you assessing at the, at the once? Is it just the one script and someone else has got another one, and how does that work?
Um, like one week I will go in and I'll pick up, like, a Thursday, Friday episode.
Even though we know there's no Home and Away on a Friday, it's Thursday Part Two.
But yeah, so I'll go in and pick up, like, the last two episodes of a block of five episodes.
And then what I'll do is I'll pick up the following three episodes from the next block.
Each editor gets five scripts, and then you, you know, you're delivering them in their blocks, and then it just all starts again.
So you always have five scripts at a time that you're working on, and it's hours and hours and hours of rewriting, and you just hope that you're not stuck in a sea of blue revisions.
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