Nicola Shindler

Nicola Shindler (born 8 October 1968)[1] is a British television producer[2] and executive, and founder of the independent television drama production company RED Production Company.

Early life

Shindler is the daughter of Gay Shindler (née Kenton) and Geoffrey Shindler.[1]

Career

Shindler began her career working for Granada Television, for whom she first came to prominence as a script editor on the drama series Cracker (1993). She then went on to work as assistant producer on the BBC's Our Friends in the North (1996) and producer on Hillsborough, a dramatised account of the 1989 football stadium disaster. All three starred actor Christopher Eccleston, who subsequently featured in several dramas for Red.

Red – named after the nickname of Shindler's favourite football team, Manchester United – was formed in 1998 and its first project, with Shindler producing, was writer Russell T Davies' gay drama serial Queer as Folk. Queer as Folk gave Red a reputation as producers of noteworthy drama, and they followed this off with subsequent series for Channel 4 such as Love in the 21st Century (1999) and Queer as Folk 2 (2000).

Red has since produced dramas for BBC One, BBC Two, and ITV including Clocking Off (2000–03), Flesh and Blood (2002), Bob and Rose (2001) and The Second Coming (2003).

Sally Wainwright credits Schindler with bringing Last Tango In Halifax to BBC TV.[3]

In February 2013 she was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.[4]

In December 2013, it was announced that Shindler had sold a majority stake Red Production Company to the French media company StudioCanal.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Nicola Shindler England and Wales Birth Registration Index". FamilySearch. 1968.
  2. ↑ Day-Lewis, Sean (1998). Talk of drama: views of the television dramatist now and then. Indiana University Press. pp. 73–. ISBN 978-1-86020-512-5. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
  3. ↑ Wainwright, Sally (9 November 2012). "Can you fall in love at 75? Screenwriter Sally Wainwright on how her mother's sweet late-life romance inspired her new drama". Daily Mail. Associated Newspapers. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
  4. ↑ BBC Radio 4, Woman's Hour Power list
  5. ↑ Sweney, Mark (5 December 2013). "Last Tango in Halifax producer sells majority stake to French company". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
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