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Danny Brocklehurst
Danny Brocklehurst (born June 1971) is an English screenwriter, playwright, and former journalist. He has won both BAFTA and Royal Television Society writing awards. He was featured in the writers' section of Broadcast magazine's Hot 100 in 2007. His 2024 Netflix drama Fool Me Once is the sixth most successful Netflix show of all time. In November 2024, The Hollywood Reporter named him as one of their "'top 50 most powerful producers".
In 2024, Brocklehurst was included in the Radio Times 100 list of the most powerful people in British television.
Brocklehurst was born in Hyde, Cheshire, in June 1971. He grew up in a working-class home and had several jobs before entering the media. From 1993, he worked as a journalist for several years, freelancing for The Guardian, City Life, and Manchester Evening News while serving as a senior feature writer for The Big Issue.
He is related to the paralympian Sarah Storey.
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. He wrote several episodes of the BAFTA award-winning series Clocking Off, as well as the two-part BBC film The Stretford Wives. 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.
His series Sorted, a BBC postal drama starring Hugo Speer, aired in 2006. In 2007, Brocklehurst wrote a film about the Fathers4Justice campaign for producers Harbour Pictures. His Company Pictures produced four-part ITV drama, Talk To Me, starring Max Beesley, Laura Fraser, Adrian Bower, Kate Ashfield and Emma Pierson.
He has written episodes of both Jimmy McGovern's The Street and crime drama Accused for BBC One. In 2011 he wrote a three-part BBC drama, Exile, starring John Simm and Jim Broadbent. It received an average of 5.5 million viewers and an audience appreciation score of 90%.[citation needed]
In 2011 it was announced that Brocklehurst would write a new HBO drama, Dirty, with Andrea Arnold attached to direct. This project was subsequently developed with Sharon Horgan and Amazon. In August 2013, BBC One announced a new drama, Ordinary Lies, written by Brocklehurst.
Danny Brocklehurst
Danny Brocklehurst (born June 1971) is an English screenwriter, playwright, and former journalist. He has won both BAFTA and Royal Television Society writing awards. He was featured in the writers' section of Broadcast magazine's Hot 100 in 2007. His 2024 Netflix drama Fool Me Once is the sixth most successful Netflix show of all time. In November 2024, The Hollywood Reporter named him as one of their "'top 50 most powerful producers".
In 2024, Brocklehurst was included in the Radio Times 100 list of the most powerful people in British television.
Brocklehurst was born in Hyde, Cheshire, in June 1971. He grew up in a working-class home and had several jobs before entering the media. From 1993, he worked as a journalist for several years, freelancing for The Guardian, City Life, and Manchester Evening News while serving as a senior feature writer for The Big Issue.
He is related to the paralympian Sarah Storey.
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. He wrote several episodes of the BAFTA award-winning series Clocking Off, as well as the two-part BBC film The Stretford Wives. 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.
His series Sorted, a BBC postal drama starring Hugo Speer, aired in 2006. In 2007, Brocklehurst wrote a film about the Fathers4Justice campaign for producers Harbour Pictures. His Company Pictures produced four-part ITV drama, Talk To Me, starring Max Beesley, Laura Fraser, Adrian Bower, Kate Ashfield and Emma Pierson.
He has written episodes of both Jimmy McGovern's The Street and crime drama Accused for BBC One. In 2011 he wrote a three-part BBC drama, Exile, starring John Simm and Jim Broadbent. It received an average of 5.5 million viewers and an audience appreciation score of 90%.[citation needed]
In 2011 it was announced that Brocklehurst would write a new HBO drama, Dirty, with Andrea Arnold attached to direct. This project was subsequently developed with Sharon Horgan and Amazon. In August 2013, BBC One announced a new drama, Ordinary Lies, written by Brocklehurst.