The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
Production biographies
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Writer and creator Sally Wainwright – Biography
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As well as The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, Sally Wainwright has also created a new six-part series for Mersey Television/ITV called Bonkers, currently in production and starring Liza Tarbuck.
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Sally created At 91Èȱ¬ With The Braithwaites, commissioned by YTV, which ran to four series - starring Peter Davison and Amanda Redman.
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She wrote an episode based on The Wife Of Bath for the 91Èȱ¬ series The Canterbury Tales, starring Julie Walters and Paul Nicholls (nominated for Bafta Best Drama; winner Best Short Drama Banff Festival); and she adapted The Taming Of The Shrew for the 91Èȱ¬'s contemporary Shakespeare series, starring Shirley Henderson and Rufus Sewell.
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She also wrote Jane Hall, an original six-part series produced by Red Productions for ITV, starring Sarah Smart.
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Producer
Alison Jackson - Biography
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Alison Jackson became Head of Development at Working Title Films in 1986, where her projects included Personal Services, The Tall Guy, Paperhouse and Drop Dead Fred.
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She was involved in the setting up of Working Title Television, which went on to develop and produce Echoes for Channel 4, The Borrowers for the 91Èȱ¬ and Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City.
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As a producer at Working Title, Alison worked on ten 10-minute short films for Channel 4, as well as the feature film Smack and the Thistle for Film Four.
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For Red Rooster Pictures, which she set up with Grainne Marmion, her work included the development of a number of feature films, including Martha Meets Frank Daniel and Laurence.
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During her time at Sarah Radclyffe Productions, their work included Les Miserables, directed by Bille August; and The War Zone directed by Tim Roth.
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In 1999 Alison Jackson produced the multi award-winning There's Only One Jimmy Grimble for SRP/Impact/Pathe.
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In 2000-2002 Alison produced Murder Rooms II, four 90-minute television features for 91Èȱ¬ Films & WGBH Boston; and Kevin Elyot's 120-minute drama No Night Is Too Long for the 91Èȱ¬ and Alliance Atlantis.
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In 2003 Alison produced Carla for RDF - a two-hour film for ITV, starring Helen McCrory, Lesley Sharp and Iain Glen.
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Alison most recently produced Not Only But Always for Channel 4; Faith written by Billy Ivory for 91Èȱ¬ ONE; and Child Of Mine starring Joanne Whalley for Kudos / ITV.
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Declan Lowney – Biography (director - episodes one and two)
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The award-winning director of Cold Feet and Father Ted, Declan has been responsible for some of the greatest comedy programmes on British television including Help; Paul and Pauline Calf's Cheese and Ham Sandwich; Little Britain; Cruise Of The Gods; The Grimleys and Happiness.
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In 2000 he directed his first feature film, Wild About Harry.
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Declan began his career as a director working on music shows: from The Eurovision Song Contest, to Pavarotti and Friends and Take That Live In Berlin.
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He recently returned to music to direct the television coverage of the Glastonbury Festival in 2005.
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Simon Curtis – Biography (director - episodes three and four)
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As an executive producer, Simon has been involved in a host of memorable television dramas including The Virgin Queen, starring Anne Marie Duff; Pride; Carrie's War; Shooting The Past; Mrs Dalloway and Justifying War: Scenes From The Hutton Enquiry.
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As a producer he has worked on dramas: from Absolute Hell in 1991, to The Colour Of Justice in 1999.
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The Amazing Mrs Pritchard is the latest in a line of recent directing credits that include Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky and Man and Boy.
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Other dramas Simon has directed include The Sins; David Copperfield; My Summer With Des and The Student Prince, with his first drama being Old Times in 1991.
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Catherine Morshead - Biography (director - episodes five and six)
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Catherine directed the follow up to 91Èȱ¬ ONE's Blackpool, Ripley's Gold, earlier this year; and also directed three episodes of the third series of Channel 4's hit Shameless.
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She was responsible for directing the first series of the hit ITV drama, Life Begins, as well as Me & Mrs Jones and Cutting It.
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In 2000 she directed both A Christmas Carol and The Railway Children for ITV and other television credits include The Passion; Silent Witness; Soldier Soldier and Dangerfield.
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Kudos - A production company for the 21st century
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In a little over a decade, the British production company Kudos has amassed an impressive catalogue of television and film, creating original, popular, award-winning work with flair and intelligence and a keen sense of emerging talent.
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Whether tackling edgy subject matter or crafting mainstream entertainment, Kudos has become - under the leadership of Joint Managing Directors Stephen Garrett and Jane Featherstone and director of Drama Simon Crawford Collins - an international force as a production entity of quality and distinction.
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Since 1992, Kudos has built a track record of acclaimed programming, from the current worldwide hit drama series Spooks, Hustle and Life On Mars to the critically lauded feature film Pure.
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The recently-announced launch of Kudos Pictures, a new stand-alone production company created with former Film Four head Paul Webster, promises a rich new source of product.
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With an already impressive list of projects for the big and small screens - the rehab-set love story Comfortably Numb; a provocative coming-of-age drama about a 14-year-old girl called Pleasureland; and the Pete Postlethwaite/Rachel Griffiths feature about working class life, Among Giants - the new Kudos Pictures is destined to make a mark in the film world.
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From the outset, Kudos made a name for itself with a wide-ranging slate that highlighted clever reality-based programming and sharp fictional entertainment, from the edgy Bafta-nominated medical drama Psychos to the International Emmy Award-winning The Magician's House; to the Grammy-nominated feature length Radiohead documentary Meeting People is Easy.
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The company has a firm belief in nurturing talented writers, which led Psychos creator David Wolstencroft to work again with Kudos to create the smash hit Spooks, a show whose prescient storylines and piercing characterisations have proven to be enormously popular across a wide spectrum of the TV-watching demographic – both in the UK and internationally.
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The Financial Times called Spooks nothing less than "total commitment TV." Series five is currently playing on 91Èȱ¬ ONE.
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In addition to The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, Kudos has several new projects coming up, including Tsunami for 91Èȱ¬ TWO; an adaptation of Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea for 91Èȱ¬ FOUR; and Scars, starring Jason Isaacs, for Channel 4.
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