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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HERE’s something to consider. The economies of the USA and China are now of similar size, but the USA does it with 90% fewer people. That means that for everyone working making something, nine others need something else to do.Read
I’ve made no secret of my admiration for Dalglish and what he achieved over the past 18 months, but that is not simply the musings of an ageing Kopite. It comes from knowing what it is like to manage talent under the full glare of a media firestorm.Read
Whether local, national or international, election results seem to have gone the way most expected, especially in hindsight. France veered from right to left, Greece went from left to right and nationally, well, the UK seems to have veered from one side to the other of the white line down the middle of the road.Read
Locally, my only one prediction being that Salford, because of Media City, will probably feature a bit more than they have in the past.Read
THIS week, I had planned to write about the Mayoral debate that was due to take place at the University of Liverpool last week, but close followers of the democratic process will know that it proved too difficult to stage.Read
Knowing this, the current furore over the tax cap on charitable giving should come as no surprise, but it is probably right up there with discovering that the Culture Company was about to sue The Samaritans in 2008, for using the ’08 Logo” in their phone number.Read
This will not merely be a chance of getting a free ticket for the posh seats, nor of popping up and providing the usual “local colour” soundbite, but about looking to maximise the presence of the global media machine to focus on what it is that makes Liverpool and the city-region different to elsewhere.Read
BY NOW we will know who is actually running in the great mayoral race, although it is also a shame that the local TV station is not up and running as it would have immediately offered the potential for regular coverage and televised mayoral debates over the next four weeks.Read
SO, the question on very few people's lips has been answered, that being of whether Phil Redmond would be standing as elected mayor of Liverpool.Read
PHIL REDMOND is to bid to run Liverpool’s first local television station.Read
