Paul Abbott

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Paul Abbott (born 22 February 1960) is an English television screenwriter and producer.

Abbott has become one of the most critically and commercially successful television writers working in Britain today, following his work on many popular series, including Coronation Street, Cracker and Shameless, the last of which he created.

He is also responsible for the creation of some of the most highly acclaimed television dramas of the 1990s and 2000s, including Reckless and Touching Evil for ITV and Clocking Off and State of Play for the BBC.

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Career

At the age of 22, Abbott competed in the Radio Times drama competition, which required the search of a legitimate sponsor. A contact knew Alan Bennett's name, who, after seeing his film, was of the opinion that Abbott had produced a perfectly acceptable piece of work which he would be able to accept. His work on radio plays for BBC Radio 4 attracted the attention of producers at Granada Television, who had hired him, at the age of twenty-four, to be a script editor on their long-running soap opera Coronation Street. He was the youngest person to serve on the program at the time.

He spent eight years as a story editor and 1989 as a writer on Coronation Street. He also worked on other programs for Granada. He co-wrote his first televised drama script, a one-off play for the Dramarama anthology, with fellow Coronation Street writer Kay Mellor in 1988. He and Mellor co-created the children's medical drama Children's Ward, which ran for many years—Abbott regularly contributed scripts until 1992, then returned briefly to the show in 1996.

In 1994, he appeared as the producer on Granada's second season of Cracker, focusing on Robbie Coltrane's performance as a criminal psychologist. He reverted to writing scripts for the program and produced several episodes in the following year. In 1997, he had his first success with a service of his own creation, titled Touching Evil. The series, starring well-known actor Robson Green, was a hit, and two sequel serials were released, but not by Abbott. The series was most recently re-made for American television by the USA Network in 2004.

He began writing another serial starring Green, Reckless, and a few other Granada productions in 1999. He contributed an episode to their anthology film Love in the 21st Century, a cable television show, and in 2000, he created and wrote the series Clocking Off for them, which was broadcast on BBC One. Each episode, the film was set in a Lancashire factory, focusing on a particular member of factory workers. Abbott personally was honoured with the RTS Best Drama Series and the equivalent at the Royal Television Society awards; the first season received the BAFTA award for Best Drama Series and the equivalent at the Royal Television Society Awards; and the equivalent at the Royal Television Society awards; Abbott was also named with the RTS Best Writer award. Clocking Off was a four-year contract, but Abbott's contributions to the final two runs were negligible considering he was also working on other projects at the time.

Linda Green, a comedy-drama on BBC One, was one of his earlier Red series's that were somewhat unsuccessful and lasted for only two seasons before cancellation. In 2000, he was supposed to adapt Sons and Lovers, but had to cancel due to work commitments.

When Abbott wrote State of Play, which was directed by David Yates and produced by Hilary Bevan-Jones for the BBC, he was experimenting with a new genre. Abbott and Bevan-Jones founded Tightrope Pictures, London's oldest independent production firm, in late 2003.

Channel 4 screened Shameless, a new Abbott series based on his experiences and family life growing up in Burnley in early 2004, but the program's present day's action was moved to Manchester. He was named in the Outstanding Writing in Television at the 2006 British Academy Television Awards, and in July of the same year, Radio Times magazine ranked him at No. 121. In a survey of industry professionals, 5 of the Most Influential People in Television Drama found the Most Influential People in Television Drama. Abbott, the most highly ranked writer on the list, was among the list's top writers, writers and executives, with others above him being actors and executives.

Tightrope Pictures has produced several high-profile dramas for the BBC, including Richard Curtis's The Girl in the Café (also directed by David Yates for BBC One, 2005), and an adaptation of William Golding's book To the Ends of the Earth (BBC Two, 2005). Abbott served as executive producer on the film version of State of Play for Universal Pictures in 2009.

Beginning in May 2015, Channel 4's first series of No Offence aired on Channel 4 beginning. Sky Max's newest crime drama, Wolfe, will be broadcast in 2021.

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