LINDSAY SHAPERO
Transmissions
TX MARCH 2016 - Royal Wives at War BBC2.
TX September 2015 - Feb 2016 Serial Thiller 9 Part series on Discovery ID in the US.
TX Nov 09 - Enid. BBC4. 90 min drama on Enid Blyton
Writer of single drama starring Helena Bonham Carter as Enid, Matthew Macfadyen and Dennis Lawson, directed by James Hawes, produced by BBC and Carnival Pictures. Notched up 1.5m viewers, the third highest ever for BBC4. Huge press coverage. Longlisted for 6 BAFTAs including Best Single Drama. Winner of the 2010 Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Single Drama.
Helena Bonham Carter: 'It's a long time since I have read such a well-written script with as complex and fascinating a character as Enid'
The Observer – ‘Excellent’
Daily Mail – ‘a brilliant new television biopic’.
The Leicester Mercury - 'Lindsay Shapero's splendid story is a confection: sweet and delicious looking, but with a centre as sour as a week's worth of old lemons'
TX Oct 09
When Boris Met Dave
Channel 4/Blink
Wrote drama sequences and consulted on the overall story arc in this controversial drama documentary about Boris Johnson and David Cameron at Oxford and Eton together. Longlisted for a BAFTA Best Single Drama.
The Observer - ‘It may be fantasy but it works’.
Watch it again on 4oD at: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/when-boris-met-dave/4od