| Danny Brocklehurst | |
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| Born | June 1971 Hyde, Manchester, UK |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, Journalist |
Danny Brocklehurst (born 1971, Hyde, Cheshire, England, U.K.) is a BAFTA and International Emmy -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 acclaimed television drama series including the BAFTA-winning Clocking Off, Shameless and The Street; International Emmy winner Accused, comedy-drama Linda Green; the critically lauded serials Exile and The Stretford Wives and 2006 BBC One hit Sorted. He has been nominated for both BAFTA and Royal Television Society writing awards.
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Danny wrote several episodes of the BAFTA award winning series Clocking Off, as well as the acclaimed two part BBC film The Stretford Wives, which was shot by director Peter Webber.
With Shameless, Danny 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.
His self created series, Sorted, the BBC's high profile postal drama, starring Hugo Speer, 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 then controller Jane Tranter did not recommission the show.
In 2007, Brocklehurst wrote a film about the Fathers4Justice campaign for producers Harbour Pictures. Whilst, his Company Pictures produced four-part ITV drama, Talk To Me, starring Max Beesley, Laura Fraser, Adrian Bower, Kate Ashfield and Emma Pierson.
He has written episodes of both Jimmy McGovern's The Street and his new crime drama Accused for BBC One. Liam's Story, starring Andy Serkis. Accused won an International Emmy in 2011 for best drama series.
In 2011 he wrote a 3 part BBC 1 drama, Exile, “a tale of prodigal redemption” which becomes an investigative crime story. It starred John Simm and Jim Broadbent. It was critically acclaimed. It received an average of 5.5 million viewers and an Audience Appreciation score of 90%.
In 2011 it was announced that Danny would write a new HBO drama, Dirty, with Andrea Arnold attached to direct.[1]
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 the hit West End (and national touring) musical Never Forget.
In film, he has adapted the Whitbread nominee Buddha Da (as Jimmy Buddha); written a book adaptation for Working Title Films.
He was featured in the writers' section of the Broadcast Magazine Hot 100 2007.
He has cited Tony Marchant, Jimmy McGovern and Alan Bleasdale as his writing inspirations. In a Creative Times feature in 2010, he wrote that Our Friends in the North was his favourite drama of all time.
In 2011 he has been nominated for TWO Writers Guild Awards for Exile and Accused. http://www.writersguild.org.uk/news-a-features/general/203-guild-awards-2011-shortlists-announced
Career in brief:
BAFTA TV Award
| Year | Series | Category | Result | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Clocking Off | Best Writer | Nominated | ||||
| 2002 | Shameless | Best Series | Won | 2002 | Clocking Off | Best Drama Series | Nominated |
| 2006 | Shameless | Best Writer | Nominated |
RTS Television Award
| Year | Series | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Clocking Off | Best Writer | Nominated |
| 2002 | Shameless | Best Series | Won |
| 2006 | Shameless | Best Writer | Nominated |
Danny has written extensively for radio. His police series Stone is in its third series. It stars Hugo Speer as Detective Inspector John Stone and every episode features a morally complex crime. It has been described as 'gritty' (The Guardian), 'hard hitting' (The Times) and 'realistic in a way radio drama rarely is' (The Observer).
Danny has written a play about Thatcher's Mutually Assured Destruction policy in the 1980s, The End of The World, a thriller about a man who seems to have ceased to exist Nobody, an Australian set examination of greed, Loaded and a single drama about an eighty-year-old woman who admits to a series of brutal murders, Mary Shane.
He has appeared as a regular commentator on Radio 4 and 5Live.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/jun/06/broadcasting.tvandradio
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15833023