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Danny Brocklehurst
OccupationScreenwriter, Journalist
NationalityEnglish
EducationDegree level
GenreDrama, realism, comedy
SubjectSocial Realism
Notable worksClocking Off
Shameless
Sorted (TV series), The Stretford Wives
Notable awardsBAFTA winner, RTS winner, Broadcast Awards winner
PartnerMarried

Danny Brocklehurst (born 1971, Hyde, Cheshire, England, U.K.) is a BAFTA-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 highly acclaimed television drama series including the BAFTA-winning Clocking Off, Shameless and The Street; comedy-drama Linda Green; the critically-lauded serialThe Stretford Wives and 2006 BBC One hit Sorted. He has been nominated for both BAFTA and Royal Television Society writing awards.

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.

In 2007, Brocklehurst wrote a film about the Fathers4Justice campaign for the Calendar Girls producers, but Miramax under new chief Daniel Battsek decided to pause the project. His Company Pictures produced four-part ITV drama, Talk To Me, starring Max Beesley, Laura Fraser, Adrian Bower, Kate Ashfield and Emma Pierson, was a critical success.

He has written an episode of both Jimmy McGovern's The Street and his new crime drama Accused for BBC One, starring Andy Serkis.

1n 2010 he has written a 3 part BBC 1 drama, Exile, “a tale of prodigal redemption” which becomes an investigative crime story. BBC drama commissioning controller Ben Stephenson said: “BBC Drama allows original writers to do their very best work and the story going forward is about putting writers and authorship first in order to deliver audiences the range of varied and ambitious drama they expect. Danny Brocklehurst, Andrew Davies and Stephen Butchard’s new work represent the range of high quality and imaginative drama that pushes the bar of what mainstream is on BBC One.” He is also developing for HBO Films with Fish Tank director Andrea Arnold.

THEATRE

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.

FILM

In film, he has adapted the Whitbread nominee Buddha Da (as Jimmy Buddha); written an adaptation of the classic family novels The Borrowers for Working Title Films. His single film, My Son Claire, about a mother coming to terms with her son's gender reassignment, remains unproduced. He is currently writing a movie about the birth of punk rock.

He was featured in the writers' section of the Broadcast Magazine Hot 100 2007.

Career in brief:

Awards

BAFTA

BAFTA TV Award |- ! Year ! Series ! Category ! Result |- |2001 |Clocking Off |Best Drama Series |Won |- |2002 |Clocking Off |Best Drama Series |Nominated |Best writer |Nominated |2003 |Clocking Off |Best Drama Series |Nominated |-

Royal Television Society

RTS Television Award

Year Series Category Result
2001 Clocking Off Best Writer Nominated
2002 Shameless Best Series Won
2006 Shameless Best Writer Nominated

Radio

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.

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