State of Play
August 2021
Autumn arts preview 2021Paul Abbott: ‘I have written two scenes I can’t bear to watch’Shameless plundered his bleak childhood for comedy. Now, he’s written a ‘funny forensics’ show, Wolfe, informed by his own bipolar diagnosis. The hit writer talks therapy, all-nighters and why his seven-year-old adores gore
January 2017
April 2015
Paul Abbott: ‘I don’t think you need damage to be a good writer but you have more experience of extremities'
Paul Abbott’s brilliant new series No Offence is a ‘comedy for a crime-addicted audience’. He talks to Simon Hattenstone about writing Shameless, his family and his battle with bipolar disorder
