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Danny Brocklehurst (born 1971 in Hyde, Cheshire) is a BAFTA winning English screenwriter....

Danny Brocklehurst (born 1971 in Hyde, Cheshire) is a BAFTA 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 on high-profile television drama series in the UK. These have included the BAFTA-winning Clocking Off and Shameless; comedy-drama Linda Green; the critically-acclaimed The Stretford Wives and 2006 BBC One hit Sorted. He has also been nominated for both the BAFTA and Royal Television Society Best Newcomer awards. Brocklehurst has also written a film about the Fathers4Justice campaign for Calendar Girls producers Harbour Pictures and a four-part ITV drama, Talk To Me, starring Max Beesley, Laura Fraser, Adrian Bower, Kate Ashfield, Joe Millson and Emma Pierson. With Shameless, he 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. Sorted, the BBC's high profile postal drama, achieved 5 million viewers in the summer of 2006 and was the only drama that year to grow week on week in the