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Jeff Pope

November 2023

  • ‘He was crippled by shame’ … Jason Isaacs as Cary Grant and Laura Aikman as Dyan Cannon in Archie.

    ‘Cary Grant’s whole life was a civil war’: the TV drama unmasking Hollywood’s permatanned icon

    The mansion-dwelling megastar was born Archibald Leach and grew up in a squalid Bristol terrace believing his mother was dead. The stars and writer of Archie talk about his rise, shame and redemption

September 2021

  • Composite image of Jimmy Savile and Steve Coogan

    Steve Coogan to play Jimmy Savile in ‘sensitive’ BBC drama

    Alan Partridge star will take on ‘complex’ character of notorious paedophile in The Reckoning

May 2020

  • Morven Christie, Max Vento and Christopher Eccleston in The A Word.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The A Word, Isolation Stories, The Eddy; Trying; Homeland – review

    Peter Bowker’s wry autism drama returned to fresh complications, ITV went full lockdown, and Netflix’s jazz story was all tuned up with nowhere to go

April 2020

  • Action stations … Darren Boyd and Angela Griffin star in one of ITV’s Isolation Stories.

    Lockdown culture
    'Can we do this without breaking the law?' Inside the first lockdown TV drama

    ITV’s Isolation Stories stars Sheridan Smith and Eddie Marsan, is shot by their family members and was directed via Zoom. Is this the future of TV drama under coronavirus?

May 2019

  • ITV STUDIOS FOR ITV HATTON GARDEN EPISODE 1 Pictured : DAVID HAYMAN as Danny Jones and TIMOTHY SPALL as Terry Perkins. Photographer: STUART WOOD This image is the copyright of ITV and must be credited. The images are for one use only and to be used in relation to HATTON GARDEN,any further usage could incur a fee.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Hatton Garden, Summer of Rockets and more – review

    Jeff Pope puts to bed the myth of the cockney criminal, while Stephen Poliakoff gets off to a flyer with his latest period-posh drama

April 2017

  • Sinead Keenan as Mel Jones and Sonny Beyga in Little Boy Blue.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Little Boy Blue; The Durrells; The Island with Bear Grylls; Girlboss

    The Moorside writer Jeff Pope does a fine job on the story of Rhys Jones, The Durrells is much more likable than it should be, but Girlboss isn’t

July 2016

  • ‘Her bucket list was watching box sets’ … Aherne and Pope in Manchester in 2009.

    Jeff Pope on Caroline Aherne: 'I'll remember her on the sofa with a bag of Minstrels watching her huge TV'

    Even at the peak of her success, she was battling cancer and depression. But, says her friend and writing partner, she turned everything into a funny story

January 2016

  • Sheridan Smith will star in a BBC1 drama about the kidnapping of Shannon Matthews.

    Sheridan Smith to star in BBC's Shannon Matthews drama

    Cilla star will play head of the residents’ group which led the search for the kidnapped Dewsbury schoolgirl

August 2014

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    Philomena writer Jeff Pope plans television drama about Jimmy Savile

    ITV Studios head of factual drama says he is still thinking about how to dramatise story of the disgraced BBC presenter. By Tara Conlan

September 2012

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    Media interview
    ITV's Jeff Pope: 'Crime was my entree into drama'

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