In the Can

Looking back, I can see that my 22nd birthday was a significant day in terms of my going into the film business. I had already

It’s funny how, as we get older we can look back on certain moments that shaped our entire lives both professional and personal. Meeting Derek

I started writing the screenplay for Handful with Derek Granger in 1982. The movie itself wasn’t made until 1988, which was pretty much par for

George Orwell was right, this was indeed a big year, well for me, maybe not quite in the way he’d envisaged for the world as

Coronation Street, for those of you who may not live in the UK and be that familiar with, it is a much loved British soap

A change in the executive structure of either a film studio or a television company is something everyone in these industries has to deal with

It was some time during 1991 that Steve Morrison stopped me in a corridor in Granada, Golden Square and said – ‘Look I know you’re

Making a film is, mostly, a really rewarding experience but a challenging one for many reasons. It’s not just about the writing of the script,

I found what I hoped to be my next project some months before Jack and Sarah opened. It was a book called ‘Empty Cradles’ about

A few things happened around the “release” of Jack and Sarah in the US. I had gone over to Los Angeles two weeks before the