About Philip Shelley
I started as a freelance script reader \ consultant, working for many different companies including the BBC, Granada TV, Thames TV, the First Film Foundation, Channel 4 Film, Paramount Pictures, Paines Plough Theatre Company… before working as a development script editor, at Granada TV Drama, and then at LWT Drama. I then went on to work as a production script-editor on MEDICS (Granada \ ITV), STAYING ALIVE (LWT \ ITV) and THE KNOCK (Bronson Knight Productions \ LWT \ ITV).
I spent 7 years at Carlton TV Drama, as Head of Development, then as Producer. At Carlton I was script editor on the last two INSPECTOR MORSE films, KAVANAGH QC, ANYBODY’S NIGHTMARE, THE WAITING TIME, NOAH’S ARK and many other shows.
At Carlton I produced FIRST SIGN OF MADNESS II ( a series of 4 x 30′ monologues by new writers, starring Pam Ferris, James Bolam, Emma Chambers and Martin Hancock) which won awards at the New York Film & TV Festival, Worldfest Houston and the Columbus International Film & Video Festival; MARGERY & GLADYS, a 2 hour film for ITV, written by John Flanagan & Andy McCulloch, directed by Geoffrey Sax; and MAKING WAVES, a 6 x 1 hour series for ITV, about life in the contemporary Royal Navy.
More recently I have script-edited A GOOD MURDER (Sally Head Productions \ ITV) and the last two series of WAKING THE DEAD (BBC TV).
For 5 years I ran the CARLTON SCREENWRITERS COURSE, an initiative to discover and nurture writers new to TV drama. Here is a list of some of the success stories we had on the course and some of the shows they have worked on since completing the course:-
- Chris Chibnall (Born & Bred, Torchwood)
- Charlotte Jones (The Palace)
- Damian Wayling (The Bill, Waking The Dead)
- Alison Hume (Summerhill, The Vice, Rocket To The Moon)
- Terry Cafolla (Messiah, Holy Cross, Making Waves)
- Gurpreet Bhatti (Eastenders)
- Sharon Foster (Shoot The Messenger, BabyFather)
These are a few of the other many successful writers I have worked with, and the shows I worked on with them:-
- Simon Ashdown (Staying Alive)
- Malcolm Bradbury (Inspector Morse)
- Declan Croghan (Waking The Dead)
- Stephen Churchett (Inspector Morse, Kavanagh QC)
- John Flanagan & Andy McCulloch (Anybody’s Nightmare, Margery & Gladys)
- Peter Flannery (The Mapmaker’s Dream – Carlton TV development project)
- Lucy Gannon (Plain Jane)
- Neil McKay (Medics; Staying Alive)
- David Nicholls ( Carlton development projects)
- Simon Nye (The Railway Children; Goldfingered – Shelley productions development project)
- Peter Ransley (A Good Murder)
- Ed Whitmore (Waking The Dead)
I also run two BBC-TV Training Courses for script editors and taught on the BBC in-house screenwriting course in 2007.