Tony Basgallop

Tony Basgallop is a British television writer best known for writing What Remains and Inside Men.

Career

Basgallop wrote an episode of Children's Ward which aired on ITV. In 1998 he wrote an episode of Casualty called Toys and Boys in series 13. The episode was watched by 12.58 million viewers.[1] In 2000, he wrote the crime drama Summer in the Suburbs which was directed by David Attwood.[2][3]

Between 1996 and 2001, he wrote fourteen EastEnders episodes.[3] His first episode aired on 21 October 1996 and last one on 26 February 2001. In 2001, he wrote the first episode of The Residents,[2] and the comedy short It's Not You, It's Me. In 2004, he wrote an episode of Outlaws called The Soft Spot. In 2003 and 2004, he wrote two episodes of Teachers. To the Ends of the Earth is a television miniseries which had three of its episodes written by Basgallop in 2005.[4] The miniseries was nominated for two awards. The first award was the Golden FIPA for TV Series and Serials and the second was the BAFTA TV Award for Best Drama Serial. In 2006, he wrote the TV movie The Good Housekeeping Guide and a year later, Confessions of a Diary Secretary.[5] In 2008, he wrote Hughie Green, Most Sincerely for BBC Four.[6] The movie was nominated for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Short Form TV Drama.

Basgallop was the creator of Hotel Babylon which first aired in 2006 and ended in 2009.[7] He then wrote Moonshot in 2009.[8][9] In 2010, an episode of Being Human which he wrote aired. In the same year, the television drama film Worried About the Boy was released, written by Basgallop.[10] Rachel Cooke, writing in the New Statesman questioned whether he intended his script to be as funny as it turned out.[11] Sirens on Channel 4 had three of its episodes written by him, all airing in 2011. In 2012, he wrote Inside Men.[12]

In 2013, he wrote What Remains which was longlisted for the drama category of the National Television Awards.[13] What Remains was the first whodunit that he had written; in the past he spent most of his career avoiding detective dramas.[14] The following year, two episodes of 24: Live Another Day written by Basgallop were broadcast on Fox.

References

  1. ↑ "BARB Top 30s".
  2. 1 2 "William Golding's 'To The Ends of the Earth' – starts Wednesday 6 July at 9.00pm on BBC TWO". BBC. 19 May 2005. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  3. 1 2 "The price is right". The Guardian (Rodger, Jennifer). 25 November 1999. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  4. ↑ Sue Parrill (2009). Nelson's Navy in Fiction and Film: Depictions of British Sea Power in the Napoleonic Era. McFarland. p. 298. ISBN 978-0-7864-5803-5.
  5. ↑ White, Michael (1 March 2007). "Relentlessly coarse and stupid". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  6. ↑ "Hughie Green, Most Sincerely". BBC. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  7. ↑ Christian Bosseno (1 May 2010). Télévision française La saison 2010: Une analyse des programmes du 1er septembre 2008 au 31 août 2009. Editions L'Harmattan. p. 233. ISBN 978-2-296-25961-4.
  8. ↑ Alvin H. Marill (11 October 2010). Movies Made for Television: 2005–2009. Scarecrow Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-8108-7659-0.
  9. ↑ Vincent Terrace (2010). The Year in Television 2009: A Catalog of New and Continuing Series, Miniseries, Specials and TV Movies. McFarland. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-7864-5644-4.
  10. ↑ "Worried About The Boy – interview with writer Tony Basgallop". BBC. 10 May 2010. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  11. ↑ New Statesman. New Statesman Limited. 2010.
  12. ↑ Conlan, Tara (7 July 2011). "BBC1 drama Inside Men to reunite Luther actors". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  13. ↑ Fletcher, Alex (17 September 2013). "National Television Awards 2014 voting opens: The full longlist". Digital Spy. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
  14. ↑ "What Remains". BBC. 14 August 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2013.

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