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Danny Brocklehurst (born 1971, Hyde, Cheshire, England, U.K.) is a BAFTA and International Emmy winning English screenwriter. Brocklehurst worked as a journalist for several years (as a freelancer for The Guardian, City Life and Manchester Evening News and senior feature writer for The Big Issue) before becoming a full-time screenwriter. He has written television drama series including ''The Driver'', ''Ordinary Lies'', ''Clocking Off'', ''Shameless'' and ''The Street''; International Emmy winner Accused, comedy-drama ''Linda Green''; serials ''Exile'', ''The Stretford Wives'' and ''Sorted''. He has been nominated for both BAFTA and Royal Television Society writing awards. ==Television work== Brocklehurst wrote several episodes of the BAFTA award winning series ''Clocking Off'', as well as the acclaimed two part BBC film The Stretford Wives, which was shot by director Peter Webber. With ''Shameless'', Brocklehurst 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 self-created series, ''Sorted'', the BBC's high profile postal drama, starring Hugo Speer, achieved 5 million viewers in the summer of 2006 and was the only drama that year to grow week on week in the ratings. Despite this; and the largely good critical response; the then controller Jane Tranter did not recommission the show. In 2007, Brocklehurst wrote a film about the ''Fathers4Justice'' campaign for producers Harbour Pictures. Whilst, 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 his new crime drama ''Accused'' for BBC One. In 2011 he wrote a 3 part BBC 1 drama, ''Exile'', “a tale of prodigal redemption” which becomes an investigative crime story. It starred John Simm and Jim Broadbent. It was critically acclaimed. It received an average of 5.5 million viewers and an Audience Appreciation score of 90%. In 2011 it was announced that Danny would write a new HBO drama, ''Dirty'', with Andrea Arnold attached to direct. In August 2013, Charlotte Moore, the BBC1 controller announced a new drama, ''Ordinary Lies'', written by Brocklehurst. ''The Driver'', starring David Morrissey was announced in January 2014, a three part drama about a taxi driver who takes a job driving for a criminal. Shown on for BBC One it co-starred Ian Hart, Claudie Blakely, and Colm Meaney. It was co-created by Jim Poyser and made by Red Productions and Highfield Pictures. In January 2015, US network Showtime announced they were developing a remake of the drama. HBO announced a project called A Teacher, in February 2014 which will be co-written by Brocklehurst and Hannah Fidell, and executive produced by Mark Duplass. It is a drama about a teacher/student relationship, based on the film of the same name. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Danny Brocklehurst」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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