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- Brocklehurst left journalism to become a full-time screenwriter. He 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.
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Brocklehurst left journalism to become a full-time screenwriter. [2] He 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.
Sep 2, 2019 · Danny Brocklehurst began writing stories and scripts at a young age, but it never occurred to him he could make a career out of it. “Perhaps it’s this working-class lack of belief you could do that but the idea of making a living from scriptwriting seemed sort of preposterous, really.
Danny talks to us about he got started as a writer, securing his first commission for BBC Radio 4 after a producer watched his debut stage play. He talks about developing the character Tom...
Jan 20, 2022 · Danny is a BAFTA award-winning screenwriter, as well as a producer, and is possibly best-known for his expert writing on such hit TV shows as Shameless, Clocking Off, and most recently helping to adapt two Harlan Coben novels, Stay Close and The Stranger, both for Netflix.
- Do You Think People’s Perception of The North Is Changing?
- Looking Back, What Project Are You Most Proud of?
- Are You Easier on Yourself Than When You First Started out?
- You’Re Never Precious About Your Work then?
- What Are You Working on Next?
- Where Would You Recommend People Visit in Manchester?
I think it’s changed already. Yes, people do put the word gritty and north together quite easily but I think there’s a mix. There’s certainly an earthiness to the area, but I think that image of it as somehow grim is getting expelled. Manchester’s such an international, cosmopolitan city now.
I think Exile[2011], a show I wrote starring John Simm and Jim Broadbent. I was looking at one of the scripts recently and I was thinking, ‘this is really well-written’ and then to get two brilliant actors and a brilliant director in John Alexander, it was a really strong piece of work.
I’m still really anxious about making things as good as they can be, and I’m never entirely confident that what I’ve delivered isn’t just a load of old rubbish. But I think you get more confident in your ability to create and to write characters and dialogue. It’s been a long time since anyone’s said to me, ‘your dialogue’s terrible’ so you develop...
I don’t think you can be. I mean, no one likes criticism, but I’ve seen other writers get to this position where they’re too big and fancy to take notes or do rewrites. It’s the death of you. You’ve got to take things on board. Sometimes you might not agree with it and then you’ve got to have a discussion, but you’ve always got to listen because no...
There’s a Sky show, a comedy drama with some big northern people in it, but sorry, I can’t really tell you much about it for now. And we’re hopefully going to do a follow-up to Safe, a new story with a new actor, not Michael C. Hall.
There’s the amazing single screen Savoy Cinema in Heaton Moor, which is a jewel in the crown of Manchester. We love Aladdin, a Syrian restaurant in Withington. It’s not posh but you just get the most amazing food there and you can take your own booze. It’s like something from the past. Safeis available to watch on Netflix.
Writing. Television work. Brocklehurst left journalism to become a full-time screenwriter. He 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.
BBC Writersroom interviews TV writer, Danny Brocklehurst (The Driver, Exile, Shameless, Clocking Off).Danny talks to us about he got started as a writer, sec...
