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.
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