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Danny Brocklehurst (born 1971 in Hyde, Greater Manchester) is a BAFTA winning English screenwriter. Brocklehurst worked as a journalist for several years (as a freelancer for The Guardian, City Life and Manchester Evening News and senior feature writer for The Big Issue) before becoming a full-time screenwriter.
He has written on high-profile television drama series in the UK. These have included the BAFTA-winning Clocking Off and Shameless; comedy-drama Linda Green; the critically-acclaimed The Stretford Wives and 2006 BBC One hit Sorted.
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Danny Brocklehurst (born 1971 in Hyde, Greater Manchester) is a BAFTA winning English screenwriter. Brocklehurst worked as a journalist for several years (as a freelancer for The Guardian, City Life and Manchester Evening News and senior feature writer for The Big Issue) before becoming a full-time screenwriter.
He has written on high-profile television drama series in the UK. These have included the BAFTA-winning Clocking Off and Shameless; comedy-drama Linda Green; the critically-acclaimed The Stretford Wives and 2006 BBC One hit Sorted. He has also been nominated for both the BAFTA and Royal Television Society Best Newcomer awards.
Brocklehurst has also written a film about the Fathers4Justice campaign for Calendar Girls producers Harbour Pictures and a four-part ITV drama, Talk To Me, starring Max Beesley, Laura Fraser, Adrian Bower, Kate Ashfield, Joe Millson and Emma Pierson.
With Shameless, he won a BAFTA for series one, co-wrote series two with Paul Abbott and became lead writer on series three. He left prior to the fourth series. Sorted, the BBC's high profile postal drama, achieved 5 million viewers in the summer of 2006 and was the only drama that year to grow week on week in the ratings. Despite this; and the largely good critical response; the BBC did not recommission the show.
He is currently writing a single film, My Son Claire, about a mother coming to terms with her son's gender reassignment.
In theatre he has written three award winning plays, 'My Eight Times Table', 'Nobody' and 'Loaded' (transferred to Radio Four), as well being story adviser and book co-writer of West End musical Never Forget.
In film, he is adapting Anne Donovan's Whitbread Nominated novel 'Buddha Da' for Parallax pictures. Iain B MacDonald will direct. He is also adapting a classic novel for Working Title Films.
He is represented by St. John Donald at United Agents (formerly of pfd).
He was featured in the writers' section of the Broadcast Magazine Hot 100 2006.
Career in brief:
- Clocking Off Series 2-4 (Bafta nominated)
- The Stretford Wives (directed by Peter Webber, 'Girl with a Pearl Earring')
- Shameless series 1-3 (Bafta winner)
- Sorted (directed by Iain B Macdonald)
- Talk to Me (directed by Dearbhla Walsh)
External links
- Are you sitting uncomfortably, Media Guardian feature, Dec 2005 [Guardian online]
- The decade that TV forgot, Guardian feature, June 2007 [Guardian online]www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/jun/06/broadcasting.tvandradio
- How we met: Danny Brocklehurst and Max Beesley
news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article2619223.ece - 11 Jul 2007
- The 5-Minute Interview: Danny Brocklehurst, Playwright.
news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article2758792.ece - 12 Jul 2007
- Writing Talk to Me: http://www.radiotimes.com/content/show-features/talk-to-me/daniel-brocklehurst-on-writing-talk-to-me/
- You Tube - Talk to Me 2007
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