Welcome to the weekly Wrap from How-Do - media news for the North West.
The Wrap's guest editor this week is Paul Mousley
I’ve always thought that the prevailing view in media is there are only really two regions. London and Everywhere else.
Interesting to hear Radio 5 live controller Adrian Van Klaveren attempting to convince listeners recently that the fact his major on air talent has zero intention of moving to Manchester isn’t an issue. Whatever. At the end of the day that is a London problem. At least it’ll bring a good number of them 200 miles closer to their season tickets.
It might even put a few of them in to contention for a How-Do award over the coming years.
Is telly writing glamorous? Do you get to meet actors and attend awards shows? Not really, not if I can help it and not a fan tend to be the stock answers. But the How-Do’s were different and important.
A brash statement of confidence, bringing together more of the region’s media players in one place than ever before. At Hogworts last Thursday, a lot of people I’d never heard of won awards for things I know little about (I don’t get out much. Goes with the territory). But then came the last award of the evening.
I became a telly writer because of Mark Radcliffe. His late slot on Radio 1 way back when is what would drag me back from the pub and to my desk, hacking away at those spec scripts, one of which finally got commissioned. A year later I binned the day job and two years later moved to the North West because it sounded so flipping cool and there was clearly something in the water when it came to producing tv writers.
And now I’ve just finished writing a scene in which a large dinosaur tries to eat a Boeing 737. Never mind the How-Do award, Mr Radcliffe’s contribution to the cultural life of the nation is beyond dispute.
Paul Mousley is a Bafta-borrowing writer whose credits include The Bill, Dangerfield, Bad Girls, Family Affairs and Primeval. On How-Do this week:
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