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Kay Mellor

April 2024

  • But can it buy happiness? … Brooke Vincent in a publicity image for The Syndicate.

    Money! Money! Money! How Kay Mellor’s The Syndicate hit the touring jackpot

    The TV show about supermarket workers who win £20m in the lottery has been turned into a touring stage show. Its director Gaynor Faye reveals how she’s channelling the late writer – her mother – for help

May 2023

  • Katherine Dow Blyton in A Passionate Woman.

    A Passionate Woman review – Kay Mellor’s wry rummage through middle-aged angst

    A year after Mellor’s death, Tess Seddon directs her 1993 play marked by dry northern wit, knowing ridiculousness and deep, understated sadness

May 2022

  • Kay Mellor in 2012

    Actors pay tribute to ‘warrior woman’ Kay Mellor

    Samantha Morton and Cathy Tyson praise the inspirational Band of Gold writer, who died on Sunday
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    Kay Mellor obituary

    Trailblazing screenwriter hailed for her many popular TV series including The Syndicate, Band of Gold and Fat Friends
  • ‘You could never guess the tone from her subject matter’ … Kay Mellor photographed in Leeds in 2015.

    ‘She changed the way TV was written’: Zoe Williams on Kay Mellor

    Versatile, pioneering and an outstanding talent scout, the writer brought the same urgency and flair for social critique to every project. No wonder Spielberg was a fan

April 2021

  • Fred Sirieix and Chris Bavin explore the New Forest.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Fred Sirieix seeks out the best dining spots in the New Forest

  • Katherine Rose Morley and Neil Morrissey in The Syndicate.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Syndicate; Pandemic 2020; Storyville: Collective; Pls Like; Unforgotten

30 March 2021

  • It could be you ... Shane (Ruben Reuter), Keeley (Katherine Rose Morley) and Donna (Kym Marsh).

    TV review
    The Syndicate review – a triumphant return for the witty lottery drama

    Now in its fourth series, Kay Mellor’s show is like a candlelit bath – warm, comforting and good for the soul
  • Gaynor Faye and Neil Morrissey in The Syndicate

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: a fourth series for Kay Mellor's lottery-win drama The Syndicate

    Neil Morrissey and Gaynor Faye lead the cast as, this time, a group of kennel workers who think they’ve won big. Plus! The best of Yorkshire cuisine. Here’s what to watch tonight
  • Dog days are over … the new winners in The Syndicate.

    Mutts and millions: how Kay Mellor's pet dog made her rethink The Syndicate

    The drama series about lottery winners is back. And this time, thanks to a very talented shih tzu called Happy, it’s exploited kennel-workers who have hit the jackpot. The veteran TV writer reveals all

May 2019

  • Sally Wainwright portrait

    The long read
    From The Archers to HBO: how Sally Wainwright conquered TV

    The long read: She was fired by Emmerdale, injected some much-needed grit into Coronation Street and struck gold with Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley. Now Sally Wainwright is going international

January 2018

  • James Norton as Alex Godman and David Dencik as Boris Godman in McMafia.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: McMafia; Girlfriends; Black Mirror; Inside No 9 and more

    James Norton cuts a dash as the heir of a Russian crime baron, while Kay Mellor makes a glorious return on ITV
  • Girlfriends … Miranda Richardson, Zoë Wanamaker and Phyllis Logan.

    TV review
    Girlfriends review: Kay Mellor introduces a gaggle of women you’d love to know in real life

    The writer’s new show – starring Miranda Richardson and Zoë Wanamaker – promises to be real and glorious and fun. Plus: Miriam Margolyes goes on a Big American Adventure
  • Miriam’s Big American Adventure, 9pm, BBC One.

    TV tonight
    Wednesday’s best TV: A Stitch in Time; Miriam’s Big American Adventure; Girlfriends

    What can Charles II’s clothes tell us about the man and his era? Another fish-out-of-water experience for the gregarious actor; plus another cracking Kay Mellor drama

December 2017

  • Kay Mellor

    My family values
    Kay Mellor: ‘If it hadn’t been for family, I wouldn’t have survived’

    The writer of Band of Gold on her violent father, creative mother, ultra-supportive husband and her daughters

November 2017

  • hayley atwell and matthew macfadyen walking through a cornfield in howards end

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Howards End; Love, Lies & Records; Peaky Blinders and more

    Our favourite brummie gangsters are back, plus fine drama courtesy of EM Forster and Kay Mellor – but those Christmas ads…
  • Love, Lies & Records<br>Programme Name: Love, Lies & Records - TX: n/a - Episode: n/a (No. 1) - Picture Shows: L-R Kate (ASHLEY JENSEN), Lucy (LILY MAE) - (C) Rollem Productions - Photographer: Ben Blackall

    TV review
    Love, Lies & Records review – Kay Mellor squeezes every last drop of excitement out of the register office

    Ashley Jensen keeps things the right side of mawkish as Kate – a registrar juggling grumpy teenagers at home, office politics at work, and some amateur sleuthing on the side
  • Kay Mellor now regrets not reporting her experience at the time.

    Screenwriter Kay Mellor reveals she was sexually assaulted in TV executive’s office

    The writer of Band of Gold has kept her secret for 30 years. Now it’s time to encourage others to come forward, she says

September 2017

  • Eva O’Connor as Anna (left) and Michelle Fox as Imogene in Overshadowed

    YouTube-style confessionals expose anorexia’s devastating hold in BBC drama

    BBC3 series Overshadowed follows a teenager’s battle with her eating disorder

June 2015

  • Britain's Got Talent, TV

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Britain’s Got Talent; The Auction House; The Syndicate; Doll & Em

    A cunning canine stunt left Britain’s Got Talent viewers fuming, while Kay Mellor made a lottery of class war
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