Phil Redmond
Phil Redmond CBE is well-known television producer and screenwriter. He grew up in Huyton and attended St Kevin's Comprehensive School before gaining a Social Studies Degree from Liverpool University. He began writing scripts for the TV sitcoms such as The Squirrels before using his own experience of comprehensive schools to come up with the idea for Grange Hill. Grange Hill was aired on BBC One from 1978 2008 and dealt with many of the challenges facing teenagers at high school. Redmond went on to create the soap Brookside, which was based around the lives of the residents of Brookside Close, Liverpool, and was aired on Channel 4 between 1982 and 2003. After Brookside ended, Redmond developed the teen soap Hollyoaks which is now one of the most established soap operas on UK television. Redmond was awarded a CBE in 2004 in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to drama.
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A DAY of events will take place to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the launch of landmark Merseyside-based soap Brookside.Read
WHO is the real Phil Redmond? While famous for creating three highly successful soap operas – Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks – like a cultural octopus, his tentacles reach into many places.Read
FOUR of the bidders for a local television licence in Liverpool have debated their visions for the service.Read
He could do this on the first day back after the New Year break and then take the rest of the year off, but he can’t. In fact he’s frightened of ever saying yes in case he then misses out on the next big blockbuster after using up all his available ‘yeses’. The result is constant procrastination.Read
IT’S NOT what you say but how you say it. Whether people trying to apologise for Hillsborough, with too little too late, or setting out a new vision for education, it’s often how things are said that reveals the true meaning.Read
Laura Davis visits Derry, the UK’s first City of Culture, which is learning lessons from Liverpool in 2008.Read
REGULATOR Ofcom has started judging the five contestants for a local television licence in Liverpool.Read
Alistair Houghton on the people bidding to create a local television station in the regionRead
COMING to a TV screen near you soon – Jack, Frank or Phil.Read
LOBBY group leader Frank McKenna is taking on Capital of Culture supremo Phil Redmond in a “beauty contest” for the right to run Liverpool’s new local television channel.Read
