Jimmy McGovern (born 1949 in Liverpool, England, UK) is a British television scriptwriter, known for his powerful and thought-provoking dramas often based around hard-hitting social issues or controversial real-life events.
He started his career working on Channel 4's socially-realist soap opera Brookside in 1982, tackling many social issues such as unemployment.
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In
1993, he created the drama serial
Cracker about the work of a criminal psychologist played by
Robbie Coltrane. Made by
Granada Television and screened on
ITV, the series was a phenomonal critical and popular success, being regarded as one of the finest British television dramas of the age, winning many awards and making McGovern one of the most sought-after writers in the industry.
Since
Cracker, his work has included
BBC One drama serial
The Lakes (
1997-
99),
ITV's
Hillsborough (
1997, a dramatised reconstruction of the events of the
1989 Hillsborough disaster), and
Sunday (
2002) for
Channel 4, based on the events of '
Bloody Sunday'.
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