Danny Brocklehurst

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Danny Brocklehurst is a British screenwriter, born in 1971. Brocklehurst worked as a journalist for several years 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.

Brocklehurst has also written a film about the Fathers4Justice campaign for Miramax Films and a four-part ITV drama, Is This Love, starring Max Beesley.

With Shameless, he won a BAFTA for series one, co-wrote series two with Paul Abbott and became lead writer on series three.

Sorted 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 didn't recommission the show.

He is currently writing a nuclear war drama for the BBC Decades season and with Blast! films he is researching/writing a film about mental illness for C4.

He was featured in the writers section of the Broadcast Magazine Hot 100 2006.

He lives in Manchester.