Category: TV
Drama
Date: 13.07.2005
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Jimmy McGovern, one of the most accomplished screenwriters
in British film and Television has been commissioned to write a new
six-part drama series for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ ONE, it was announced today by Jane Tranter,
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Controller of Drama Commissioning.
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The critically-acclaimed writer of Cracker, Hillsborough,
Sunday and award-winning films Priest and Liam returns to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ ONE for
the first time since The Lakes, with a new drama production set in his
native Liverpool.
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Tranter says: "This new project is a highly-authored,
signature drama by one of Britain's foremost writing talents.
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"Jimmy's ability to engage an audience with thought-provoking
and challenging dramas sets him apart from other modern-day writers.
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"This six-part production is an emotional, funny, poignant
and relevant drama series, exploring the lives of an ordinary community."
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Jimmy McGovern says: "I look around me and see poverty,
crime, drugs and violence, yes, I also see a lot of love. And that's
what I'm doing: telling love stories."
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Executive producer, Sita Williams, says: "I can't think
of a better writer than Jimmy McGovern to combine the realities of 21st
Century life with the ordinary emotions of everyone everywhere."
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John Yorke and Lucy Richer, joint Head of Independent
Drama adds: "Jimmy has set out to write love stories from the back streets
of Liverpool - the real, messy, glorious working class world McGovern
grew up in, amidst the people he knows best.
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"These are stories of friendship, family, love
and betrayal, told with wit and passion, celebrating a community. Jimmy's
trademark is an addictive ability to turn the tables on the audience
at the most unexpected moments.
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"With each episode concentrating on a different
house in the street, each story is unique and individual but linked
by community, shared experience and an indomitable sense of humour."
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A Granada production for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ ONE, the executive producers
are Sita Williams (Granada), John Yorke and Lucy Richer (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½). Filming
begins in October for five months for transmission in early 2006.
