Danny Brocklehurst is a British screenwriter, born in 1971. 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 been nominated for both the BAFTA and Royal Television Society Best Newcomer awards. Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... City Life is a Manchester based listings magazine that has been published for the last 20 years. ... The Manchester Evening News is an English daily newspaper published each week day evening and on Saturdays. ... Founded by John Bird, Dave Bulldog and Gordon Roddick in September 1991, The Big Issue is a magazine in the United Kingdom that is edited by professional journalists and sold by homeless people. ... The British Academy Television Awards, also known as the BAFTAs or, to differentiate them from the BAFTA Film Awards, the BAFTA Television Awards, are the most prestigious awards given in the British television industry, analogous to the Emmy Awards in the United States. ... Clocking Off is a British television drama series which ran on the BBC One network for four seasons from 2000 to 2003. ... Shameless is an offbeat British comedy drama television series set in the fictional Chatsworth Estate in Manchester, England. ... Linda Green was a British television comedy-drama series that lasted for two seasons, screened in 2001 and 2002. ... The Stretford Wives is a British drama film made by the BBC. It was first broadcast on BBC One in August 2002; however, it was never released on DVD. The film revolves around the lives of three sisters - played by Fay Ripley, Claire Rushbrook, and Lindsey Coulson - who live in... Sorted is a BBC television drama series, first broadcast in 2006, and transmitted on BBC One and BBC HD. It was created by Danny Brocklehurst, who has also written for Clocking Off and Shameless. ... The Royal Television Society is a British-based society for the discussion, analysis and preservation of television in all its forms, past, present and future. ...

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. Fathers 4 Justice (sometimes abbreviated to F4J) is a campaigning group in the United Kingdom which works for fathers rights. ... Calendar Girls is a British film of 2003, based on the true story of a group of Yorkshire women who produce a nude calendar to raise money for leukemia research, under the auspices of the Womens Institute. ... Independent Television (generally known as ITV but also as ITV Network or Channel 3) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990... // Max Beesley was born to Maxton Beesley Sr, a professional Jazz Drummer and a Jazz singer mother, she sang under the stage name Chris Marlowe. ... Laura Fraser (born 24 July 1976) is a Scottish actress. ... Adrian Bower (born 20. ... Kate Ashfield (born 1972) is an award-winning English actress best-known for co-starring in the 2004 movie Shaun of the Dead. ... Emma Pierson (born 30 April 1981 in Plymouth, Devon) is a British actress. ...

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.^{[citation needed]} Despite this; and the largely good critical response; the BBC did not recommission the show. now. ...

He is currently writing a nuclear war drama for the BBC "Decades" season and a single film, My Son Claire, about a mother coming to terms with her son's gender reassignment. Nuclear War is a card game designed by Douglas Malewicki, and originally published in 1966. ...

He was featured in the writers' section of the Broadcast Magazine Hot 100 2006. Broadcast magazine is the weekly newspaper for the UK TV and Radio industry External links [http://www. ...

External links

• Danny Brocklehurst at the Internet Movie Database

• Are you sitting uncomfortably, Media Guardian feature, Dec 2005 [Guardian online]
• The decade that TV forgot, Guardian feature, June 2007 [Guardian online]

• How we met: Danny Brocklehurst and Max Beesley

news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article2619223.ece - 11 Jul 2007 The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. ...

• 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/