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Paul Abbott

May 2024

  • ‘She was amazing’ … Sarah Lancashire in Clocking Off.

    How we made
    ‘I really deserved that Bafta’: Paul Abbott on the liberation of making Clocking Off

    ‘In practical terms, we were asking very big actors to suddenly slide into the background. All the biggest names – Christopher Eccleston, Sarah Lancashire, Ricky Tomlinson – absolutely got it’

September 2021

  • Colin Farrell in The North Water.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The North Water; Wolfe; My Childhood, My Country; Imagine: Tom Stoppard; Big Age

    A dark whaling tale brings out the wonderful worst in Colin Farrell, Paul Abbott goes cartoonish with a bipolar pathologist, plus author Bolu Babalola’s sparky new comedy

August 2021

  • Screenwriter Paul Abbott.

    Autumn arts preview 2021
    Paul Abbott: ‘I have written two scenes I can’t bear to watch’

  • Alma’s Not Normal; Sex Education; The Morning Show.

    Autumn arts preview 2021
    Sex, Succession and sci-fi nightmares: the must-see TV of autumn 2021

January 2017

  • Viola Davis photographed in Los Angeles for the Observer Magazine

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography: January 2017

  • Olivia Williams as Lady Hamilton in The Halcyon,

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Halcyon, Silent Witness, No Offence, Unforgotten, Sherlock and Taboo

  • ‘There’s a mismatch between the representations of women’s sexuality on TV and in reality’ … Joanna Scanlan as DI Vivienne Deering, centre, with co-stars Alexandra Roach and Elaine Cassidy.

    Unmissable culture of 2017
    Joanna Scanlan: 'I'm a sexual being. I feel I'm attractive to men – including my husband'

  • Writer Paul Abbott.

    Paul Abbott: ‘Shameless became too hysterical. I was glad to see it off’

March 2016

  • ITV ARCHIVE<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only Minimum use fee £50 Mandatory Credit: Photo by ITV/REX/Shutterstock (669487ks) 'Coronation Street' TV - 1974 - L-R: Ena Sharples [Violet Carson], Mavis Riley [Thelma Barlow], Hilda Ogden [Jean Alexander], Rita Bates [Barbara Knox] and Alf Roberts [Bryan Mosley]. ITV ARCHIVE

    Paul Abbott on Tony Warren: 'His Corrie was like Under Milk Wood with fishwives'

    His chat smelled of Salford and he learned everything he knew from mouthy old women in pubs . . . scriptwriter Paul Abbott remembers working – and boozing – with Tony Warren, creator of Coronation Street

October 2015

  • Shameless television screnwriters

    Downton Abbey profits to fund TV writers from ‘below stairs’

    Hit dramas will play a part in helping a new generation to write for more diverse audiences

July 2015

  • Mundane backdrop to twisted stories … Clocking Off. Photograph: PA/BBC

    Your next box set
    Clocking Off box set review – ‘shocking tales of ordinary people with dark secrets’

    Set in a Manchester bed linen factory, Paul Abbott’s dramas deal with infidelity, rape and racism – and there’s no guarantee of a happy ending

June 2015

  • No Offence by Channel 4

    No Offence to return for second series on Channel 4

  • No Offence

    TV and radio blog
    No Offence: why female coppers are the making of Paul Abbott's drama

May 2015

  • DI Deering pronounces the bridegroom nicked in No Offence.

    TV review
    No Offence; The Detectives – review: Paul Abbott’s Channel 4 drama was almost as chilling and moving as the real thing

    The third episode of Abbott’s latest creation is a riot and flashes by at breakneck speed, while The Detectives finishes its finely judged and unsensationalist record of painstaking police work
  • 24 Hours in the Past

    TV review
    24 Hours in the Past: the randomest collection of participants in the BBC’s weakest historico-reality-doc-thing yet

    The appearance of Ann Widdecombe working in Victorian conditions makes for frustrating and pointless watching, and is not redeemed by the ex-politico famemonger’s ironic push for workers’ rights in this week’s episode

    • No Offence set to be Paul Abbott’s latest hit, attracting 2.5 million viewers

    • TV review
      No Offence review – Paul Abbott’s rude but not crude un-PC cop show

    • No Offence: meet the stars of Paul Abbott's gobby police drama

April 2015

  • Paul Abbott.

    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

August 2014

  • Paul Abbott, screenwriter

    Shameless creator Paul Abbott starts filming new police drama No Offence

    News: Joanna Scanlan, Alexandra Roach and Will Mellor are among cast of blackly comic show to be aired on Channel 4

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