Donna Franceschild
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| Donna Franceschild | |
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| Occupation | Writer |
| Genres | Drama |
| Notable award(s) | Mental Health Media Award 1995 Takin' Over the Asylum Mental Health Media Award 2001 |
Donna Franceschild is a British television writer.
Her first television work was Takin' Over the Asylum about a hospital radio station in a psychiatric hospital. It was first broadcast in 1994 and starred Ken Stott and David Tennant. The show won Franceschild the 1995 Mental Health Media Award. She won a second MHM award in 2001 for Donovan Quick.[1]
She wrote A Mug's Game (1996), and adapted Robert McLiam Wilson's novel Eureka Street for television, which was first broadcast in September 1999.
By the 2000s, political drama was seen as anachronistic.[2] However, she "swam against the tide",[2] as she describes, by writing and producing The Key, about three generations of working class women in Glasgow. She said "We live in cynical times and it's easy to become jaded by the machinations of power and politics. I wrote The Key to try and remind us that, though we are shaped by our history, sometimes the reverse is also true."[3]
