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Paul Abbot to write for MovieScope |
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Written by James MacGregor
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Friday, 28 December 2007 |
 Writer and producer Paul Abbott, one of Britain’s best and most successful screenwriters, is to become a regular contributor to movieScope magazine. Starting with the March/April 2008 edition, he will contribute a two-page article in the magazine’s CRAFT section, centred on writing for the screen.
Abbott has always been a controversial, as well as a respected, critic of Britain’s screen industries, calling for television drama producers – normally risk-averse in their approach, to take more risks with their commissions, both with content and with new writers. He has made a point of championing new writers by opening his own screenwriting academy.
Growing up within a large family in Burnley, Lancashire and later deserted by both parents, Abbott and his brothers and sisters fended for themselves rather than being taken into care. Years later this provided a rich source of material for his TV drama seven-parter Shameless (Channel 4, 2004.) As a schoolboy, Abbott was brutally raped on the way home and he was sectioned at age 16 from school but by the age of 23, his writing for Radio 4 had been noticed by Granada bosses and he found himself working as story editor for the soap opera Coronation Street, where he was to work for ten years.
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A new Asda Stores was opening at Bridgend, Rumors were flying that Asda was going to give away 10 lcd tv's. to the first 10 customers. One family who could have naturally acted in shamless, sat outside the store from 10 o.clock the night before. Amusing their selves with football, stupid games. chasing cricket etc to pass the time away. I arrived at 8 am the morning of the opening, I was going to set up and cook off and sample sausages, I was walking into the store, when this family were chanting "sausages sausages bring on the sausages. every time I had to go outside to retrieve somthing from my van, I had the same chant "sausages sausages bring out the sausages. By this time a crowd had started to form ready for the opening. I had to go outside the store, to move my van, again the same chant. an elderly woman ask if they were making some sort of protest, I replied "no they are just dull and board."
My consolation was actually seeing their faces when there was no tv's actually to be given away...