scriptwriter
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Divy Nidhi Sharma, the show's scriptwriter, says the series follows two women, Kamlesh and Pooja.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
No scriptwriter would have come up with something like this.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
The series' scriptwriter Maan Sakbani, 35, expressed cautious relief that the days of full-blown censorship under Assad were over.
From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025
You started out at the University of Virginia, which doesn’t seem like the immediate choice for a scriptwriter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024
Ludovick packed his portable scriptwriter in its case and went to call on the girl next door, whom he loved with a deep and intermittently requited passion.
From The Blue Tower by Smith, Evelyn E.
Three years before the Olympics, LA28 organizers gave International Olympic Committee officials the kind of Games preview that even Hollywood’s best scriptwriters couldn’t plan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
Not even the Hollyoaks scriptwriters can see the future clearly enough to answer that.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024
Ms. Womack was one of the scriptwriters for “Niyah and the Multiverse.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2024
They wanted not necessarily to replace scriptwriters with generative AI, but they wanted the option to do so.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2023
The magazine reported that Rupert Murdoch is "consumed with the question of his succession", and even that son Lachlan suspected brother James of feeding family stories to Succession's scriptwriters.
From BBC ● May 26, 2023
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