The Brit List, a line-up of the best unproduced scripts from UK screenwriters has unveiled its 2025 list.
At the top this time is Robert Cawsey’s comedy horror, Don’t Even Go There. The story centres on a family hiking trip to Wales that takes a sinister turn when an ancient monster is awoken.
The Brit List is a showcase for emerging UK screenwriters. UK Film & TV companies recommend the best unproduced scripts they have seen in the past year. Those with the most recommendations make the list.
This year, 15 scripts from sixteen writers have made the list. 50% of writers on the list this time come from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds – the highest number ever featured.
Writers who appear on list are invited to take part in a yearlong programme of seminars where they meet and hear from commissioners, showrunners, directors and producers. Over the 16 years since it was started, 82 scripts from writers featured on The Brit List have been produced including multiple BAFTA, OSCAR and Emmy winners, such as The King’s Speech, The Danish Girl, The Favourite and Responsible Child.
The Brit List: Film and TV 2025
24 recommendations
DON’T EVEN GO THERE by Robert Cawsey (Curtis Brown)
Producers: Available
Form: Feature Film
Genre: Comedy Horror
Summary: A family hiking trip in Wales, intended to bring Will and his estranged parents closer, goes horribly wrong when an ancient monster is unleashed, seeking revenge on the locals.
20 recommendations
P.O.V by Dylan Ritson & Blake Ritson (Curtis Brown)
Producers: Available
Form: Feature Film
Genre: Elevated Sci Fi
Summary: In a dystopian world where state-issued glasses control everyone’s outlook on life, a faulty prescription opens Lyle’s eyes to a reality he can’t unsee.
18 recommendations
DISCRETION by Dylan Brady (Knight Hall)
Producers: Kudos
Form: TV
Genre: Erotic Thriller
Summary: When struggling actor Jacob is offered a nannying job by a high-flying producer and her movie star husband, he plots to seduce his employers and gain advantage from their industry connections – not realising he’s walking into a trap.
15 recommendations
REVOLTING by Jack Holden (Independent Talent Group)
Producers: Available
Form: TV
Genre: Drama
Summary: REVOLTING is the fabulously explosive story of the British gay liberation movement from 1970 to 1990, inspired by the experiences of real life activist, Lisa Power.
ALWAYS GREENER by Lewis Wren (Curtis Brown)
Producers: Available
Form: TV
Genre: High Concept Rom Com
Summary: A struggling artist, haunted by past failure, is given a one-in-a-million chance to become his rich and successful doppelganger from a parallel universe, only to discover that living his fantasy has cost him the love of his life.
12 recommendations
CHASING THE NIGHT by Abraham Adeyemi (Casarotto)
Producers: Available
Form: Feature Film
Genre: Romance
Summary: Former lovers Fatimah and Leon meet serendipitously in Athens on the last night of their respective trips, the hurdles they could not overcome in their home city suddenly fade. Can this new landscape give them a fresh start? They have one night to find out.
THE WIDOW MAKING SYNDICATE by Bethan Moore (The Agency)
Producers: Available
Form: Feature Film
Genre: Crime / Black Comedy Drama
Summary: In early 20th century Hungary, a village knitting club takes it upon themselves to poison their abusive husbands with arsenic. 133 men are murdered, and the club’s ringleader, the young, beautiful and bat-shit Zsofi Kovacs, is put on trial, facing the death penalty. But has she actually done anything wrong? Based on a true crime story.
10 recommendations
WINGING IT by Wisdom Charis (Curtis Brown)
Producers: Available
Form: TV
Genre: Comedy Drama
Summary: A comedy about newly orphaned Steady, following her as she navigates grief, adult life and the Herculean task that is taking over her dad’s white van man company (something hard to do when she’s not even one of those three things) accompanied by her clueless but loveable friends.
MATERNAL by Adam Tindall (Unrepresented)
Producers: Available
Form: TV
Genre: Offbeat Action Thriller
Summary: An unassuming middle-aged woman and her teenage son are forced to flee their humdrum lives, when the mother’s past as a master assassin finally catches up with her.
9 recommendations
CHILDREN OF THE STATE by Sarah Louise Madden (Casarotto)
Producers: Available
Form: TV
Genre: Dystopian Thriller
Summary: CHILDREN OF THE STATE is set in a near future world where, to save a crumbling welfare system, family size is now based upon citizens’ wages – all children who cannot be afforded are taken and raised by the state. Lowri Morgan, a working-class doctor, begins to question her complicity in this utopic world.
8 recommendations
SWEATSHOP BOY by Arran Shargall (Unrepresented)
Producers: Available
Form: TV
Genre: Workplace Drama
Summary: A fast-fashion assistant discovers a secret so explosive it could destroy the very industry he’s desperately trying to conquer, forcing him to choose between self-destructing his own career to expose the truth or silencing it forever to protect his rise to power.
FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS by Stephanie Yamson (Casarotto)
Producers: Five Acts Productions
Form: TV
Genre: Drama
Summary: Four lifelong friends navigate love, ambition, health and sisterhood in modern-day London. Their worlds intertwine through laughter, secrets, and heartbreak — until tragedy strikes, forcing them to question what it truly means to show up for each other.
7 recommendations
DARLING OF THE RIGHT, ENEMY OF MY PEOPLE by Mahad Ali (The Agency)
Producers: Available
Form: TV
Genre: Political Thriller
Summary: A charismatic secondary school headteacher is unexpectedly nominated as the Conservative candidate for London’s Mayor. In turn, her deeply held values clash with both her past and the complex realities of her diverse community—forcing her to confront uncomfortable truths about loyalty, identity, and power.
I’M F*CKING AMAZING by Anoushka Warden (Independent Talent Group)
Producers: Fifth Season in association with Bond Group Entertainment
Form: TV
Genre: Comedy Drama
Summary: Una can’t get wet. She must be broken. Newly engaged, she sets off on a desperate quest to fix her bits… What becomes of happily-ever-after for a woman who can’t stand sex with the best guy ever? I’m F*cking Amazing is a hilarious dive into female sexual desire.
SOVEREIGN By Chloe Mai White (Independent Talent Group)
Producers: Available
Form: TV
Genre: Political financial thriller
Summary: When the UK can’t afford to pay its national debt, a government lawyer whose marriage is imploding, is thrust into the spotlight as she fights to save the nation from economic catastrophe.
Staff Reporter
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