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Danny Brocklehurst (b. 1971, Hyde, Greater Manchester) is a British 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 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 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.

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. Despite this; and the largely good critical response; the BBC did not recommission the show.

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.

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

He is represented by St. John Donald at United Agents (formerly of pfd).

Career in brief:

  • Clocking Off Series 2-4 (Bafta nominated)

  • Linda Green

  • The Stretford Wives (directed by Peter Webber, 'Girl with a Pearl Earring')

  • Shameless series 1-3 (Bafta winner)

  • Sorted (directed by Iain B Macdonald)

  • Talk to Me (directed by Dearbhla Walsh)

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 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/

  • www.unitedagents.co.uk



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