The Brit List, the platform for emerging British screenwriting talent, has unveiled its 2025 lineup of the best unproduced film and TV scripts.
Established in 2007, The Brit List‘s mission is to “showcases outstanding British voices, with its annual list compiled from recommendations by British production companies, talent agencies, sales companies, financiers, distributors, and broadcasters. As such, “the feature and television scripts that have made it onto this year’s list offer a barometer of industry tastes and trends,” the Brit List team highlighted. “In recent years, The Brit List has represented a near parity of male and female writers, and in this edition, half of the writers come from historically underrepresented voices.”
This year, a minimum of seven recommendations was needed for inclusion, with 15 scripts from 16 writers making the 2025 cut.
Topping the list is Don’t Even Go There by Robert Cawsey, whose synopsis reads: “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.”
The second-ranked script comes from Blake Ritson, known for portraying Oscar Van Rijn in The Gilded Age, and his brother Dylan. Their P.O.V is set in “a dystopian world where state-issued glasses control everyone’s outlook on life,” according to a plot summary.
The third spot is held by Discretion by Dylan Brady, the actor who portrayed Neek in the second season of Andor. The story revolves around a struggling actor who is offered a job by a nannying high-flying producer and her movie star husband.
“In this year’s list, we have a strong collection of unique voices that take us into fresh, bold worlds,” said Brit List founder and director Alexandra Arlango. “Interestingly, this year there is a high number of scripts in the sci-fi and horror genre, but these are balanced with a higher number of scripts that lean into comedy. One striking difference we have seen across the scripts that made it onto The Brit List 2025 and indeed the majority of the 200 script recommendations we had this year, is how many of them have yet to attach a production company. This is surely a reflection of the challenging times the film and TV industries are currently facing and makes it more important than ever that we, as an industry, continue to take risks and have the conviction to back brilliant storytelling.”
Nearly one in four of the feature scripts that have appeared on The Brit List have gone on to be produced, including The King’s Speech, Paddington, and The Favourite, according to the Brit List team.
The writers on the Brit List 2025, supported by Audible and the Film Distributors’ Association, will have the opportunity to attend a six-month program designed to help them in their careers via weekly seminars featuring industry guest speakers, including buyers, producers, and showrunners, as well as a roster of specialists in such fields as personal finance, mental health, pitching techniques, and personal branding.
Here is a look at the scripts on The Brit List 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 realizing 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.
