Selected credits and commissions

SCREENWRITING COMMISSIONS:

Refuelling at Gatwick: Treatment for a TV film, PAWS/MIDAS

Selling Out: Treatment for a TV pilot, Hat Trick Productions

Black Hall: Treatment for a legal drama serial, Great Western Films

Double Entry: Treatment for a single film for AKA Productions and Leopard Films

The Replacements: Drama serial (treatment), for Great Western Films

Freshers: Pilot script, commissioned by BBC NI, optioned by Accomplice Television

Bark Pulse: Science fiction feature film: uncredited rewrite

Fresh Flesh: Short film, broadcast on RTE, Feb 1991. (Writer/director)


SPEC SCRIPTS AND TREATMENTS

Comrades: Young adult novel

Bricks and Mortars: Feature film script

Good School: Feature script, rights available

Enzyme 21: Feature script

Transition: Treatment, low-budget feature, rights available

Devil’s Punchbowl: Comedy series, treatment and bible

Negative Equity: Feature film script


BROADCAST CREDITS

The Clinic: Series 5, episode 5, 60 mins, RTE, broadcast November 2007

Dalziel & Pascoe - Project Aphrodite: original 2 x 60 mins, BBC1, broadcast June 2007

Walking at Ringsend: Saturday Play for BBC Radio 4. broadcast June 2004

The First Witch: Woman's Hour drama, 5 x 15 mins, BBC Radio 4, broadcast March 2004

Casualty: BBC1
Series 18, episode 6, broadcast Oct 2003
Series 17, episode 22, broadcast Feb 2003
Series 17, episode 11, broadcast Nov 2002
Series 16, episode 32, broadcast April 2002
Series 16, episode 22, broadcast Feb 2002
Series 16, episode 11, broadcast Nov 2001

EastEnders, BBC1
Episode 1072, BBC. Broadcast Dec 2000

A and E, Granada/ ITV
Series 2, episode 3, broadcast on ITV April 2000
Series 1, episode 4:broadcast on ITV June 1999

Some things I've written: television

http://www.holby.tv/db/index.php?id=32,756,0,0,1,0

http://www.holby.tv/db/index.php?id=32,777,0,0,1,0

http://www.holby.tv/db/index.php?id=32,788,0,0,1,0

http://www.holby.tv/db/index.php?id=33,824,0,0,1,0

http://www.holby.tv/db/index.php?id=33,834,0,0,1,0

http://www.holby.tv/db/index.php?id=70,860,0,0,1,0

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0948189/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1046007/

Some things I've written: reportage

Adaptations, arbitration and Austen: Interview with Deborah Moggach
http://www.writersguild.org.uk/public/008_Featurearticl/023_DeborahMoggac.html


Weird Fiction: Interview with China Mieville
http://www.writersguild.org.uk/public/008_Featurearticl/031_ChinaMiville.html


Imaginary Worlds: Celebrating British science fiction and fantasy writers
http://www.writersguild.org.uk/public/008_Featurearticl/170_WGGBFeatures.html


Are tax breaks bad for writers?
http://www.newstatesman.com/200511070010


Who needs a two-day screenwriting workshop?
http://www.newstatesman.com/200405100014

Things I didn't know...

Things I didn't know, part one: Dan Brown and David Foster Wallace were in the same creative writing course at Amherst college.

Girls on film

Interesting article about the increase in female-led films in last Sunday's Observer, by Barbara Ellen:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/oct/04/precious-fish-tank-kicks

Mummy, what's a zeitgeist?

Yes, yes, I know that when it comes to being zeitgeisty,  blogging is up there with Facebook, reality TV and credit cards that charge 0% interest. It is over, darlings. But I'm a big fan of nostalgia for the recent past, so let's see if we can kickstart the noughties' revival right here, right now. Just because we can.