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| Liverpool has produced numerous Television actors, playwrites and producers. The city has also been the setting for countless comedies, dramas and soap-operas, not forgetting big budget films. |
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Alan Bleasdale is without doubt one of the most successful and influential writers in British television. He has created powerful, sometimes comical television and stage plays mostly set in Liverpool and the north of England. |
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Jimmy McGovern is one of the most powerful and uncompromising writers to come out of Britain in recent years. McGovern's gritty and realistic work concentrates on the emotional and human costs of everyday life. Much of Jimmy McGovern’s writing has focussed on the little people the Liverpool dockers, the families of the Hillsborough disaster and how they have coped against overwhelming bureaucracy and cover-ups. |
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| Willy Russell was born in Whiston, near Liverpool, in 1947. Leaving school at 15 he worked as a hairdresser until he was 20, returning to school to complete his education. There he began writing his first play, a trilogy called Blind Scouse, which was taken to the Edinburgh Festival, and noticed by a representative of the Everyman Theatre, which subsequently produced the world premieres of many of his plays, most of which later transferred successfully to the West End including: When The Reds, Sam O'Shanker, John Paul George Ringo... and Bert (his first West End transfer), Breezeblock Park, Stags And Hens, One For The Road, Blood Brothers, and Educating Rita, originally commissioned by the RSC, proved so successful that it was subsequently produced in the West End, winning the 1980 Society of West End Theatres Award for Best Comedy, and made into an Oscar nominated film, for which Russell wrote the screenplay, with Michael Caine and Julie Walters. |
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Phil Redmond founded Mersey Television in 1981 and is responsible for soap operas Brookside and Hollyoaks. He also created the children's television series Grange Hill. Visit the Brookside website for further information. |
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