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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SO, in one of the least shocking results in Liverpool politics for as long as anyone can remember, the council approved plans to move to an elected mayor.Read
ON BBC Question Time last week I was acutely aware that a couple of months ago I had written about the format revolving around “members of the public providing pre-selected questions that allow the power brokers to pontificate”.Read
No sooner had Council Leader Joe Anderson thrown not just his hat, but the entire ring into the game, than two more candidates enter the arena: long-standing campaigner Liam Fogerty and local entrepreneur Herbert Howe.Read
One of them I alluded to a week or so back when highlighting the fact that the city libraries are to close every Sunday. This is not about whether those cuts are right, wrong, justified, misconceived, inevitable or preventable.Read
CITY leaders celebrated the launch of the new-look Liverpool Post this morning as the paper hit newsagents across the region.Read
MOMENTS in history: Part Two. And this is a real one. The first edition of a new weekly publication.Read
SO, WHAT do we think of those Desperate Scousewives? It’s a question I’ve been asked many times over the past couple of weeks as Monday night on E4, a popular young people’s channel based in London, has been giving the city an hour’s worth of media exposure.Read
SIR SIMON Rattle. Sir George Stubbs. The Beatles. Willy Russell. Alan Bleasdale. And now . . .Read
FLIPPIN’ eck, as Tucker Jenkins used to say, some little bleeder has only gone and upset the Old Bill down sarf by, well, golly gosh, using the sort of colourful language once never used in the presence of ladies or children’s TV.Read
CLOSER to home, very close, someone has been asking similar to-the-point questions, as it seems there has been an outbreak of pragmatism with today’s news that the Daily Post is to be, well, weekly. Perhaps, following Henry Ford, you can have it any day, so long as it’s Thursday?Read
