Ajayi has already written for EastEnders and Doctors - also via the BBC Drama Writers' Academy - and is currently working on her first Casualty script.
"He's learnt way too fast, and I fully expect to be working for him at some point in my career - the little shit," declares The Office producer Ash Atalla, now managing director of Roughcut TV.
"For such a new writer she has displayed amazing maturity, insight and creative flair," says Carnival Films executive producer Christopher Aird, with whom Taylor worked on an episode of ITV1's new primetime drama Harley Street.
As a playwright, Graham's political satires - Little Madam, which imagines Margaret Thatcher as a small child, and Suez Crisis drama Eden's Empire - have already won him plaudits for his ability to mix the politics of an era with an in-depth study of human relationships.
Bringing her own unique twist to web 2.0, Somerville has been charged by ITN's online division "to engage the disenfranchised audience that lies between Newsnight and Newsround" through cross-platform show You News, which she writes and packages herself.
This TV writer and playwright also has a rock'n'roll sideline as the bassist in upcoming band Mr Hudson and the Library, which has supported Amy Winehouse in concert.
"In his quest to make the audience laugh, Tim employs a broad range of weaponry, from knob gags to sharp and witty jokes - and he's still only 20," notes BBC Comedy executive producer Stephen McCrum.
Evening Standard theatre critic Quirke is preparing to put himself on the other side of the firing line pending the broadcast of Trinity, set at a fictitious Oxbridge college.
