Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Corrie writer defects

Cor blimey! Would you Adam and Eve it? Corrie's Daran Little has only gorn and packed his bags and headed south to Walford.

He started off on Corrie as its archivist in 1988 and in that role wrote some of the best books available on all things Corrie. Later, he moved into the writing team as a storyliner and then as a script writer, where he wrote 95 episodes, introducing the first openly gay character in Todd Grimshaw. His background as fan and archivist meant that he had a real feel for the history of the programme and his scripts would regularly contain references to characters and events from the past.
Looking for new challenges he went on to write and produce a 20 part series Hollyoaks: In The City and when it wasn't recommisioned, he moved on to Hollyoaks for a while.
He then went to try his hand in America as creative consultant and associate head writer on All My Children, returning to the UK last year to write 9 further episodes of Corrie.

Twittering yesterday evening, Little wrote: "Ta ra Weatherfield... 'ello Walford... happy to say I'm now writing for EastEnders."

Have a look at Daran Little's Coronation Street writer profile.
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8 comments:

  1. Tvor2 March 2010 at 16:48

    *gasp* traitor to the almight pound!!! It's too bad, he wrote such great stuff for Corrie. I didn't realize he only wrote nine! Maybe he just wasn't getting the work?

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  2. Clare2 March 2010 at 17:35

    Judas!!

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  3. Layman Battler2 March 2010 at 18:15

    Indeed. Very disappointing.

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  4. Walzing Matilda3 March 2010 at 08:58

    I suppose its up to him who he writes for. On a slightly different topic, hear a rumour that when the new producer starts this/next month, some characters are going to be axed!

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  5. Sea Penguin3 March 2010 at 09:59

    Eastenders needs all the help it can get, in my opinion - it's never been a patch on Corrie.

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  6. Cobblestone3 March 2010 at 18:07

    Tvor, the article said he wrote 95 eps in his first stint on Corrie, and then a further 9 on his return.
    Such a shame, his humour is so much more suited to Watherfield than to That Other Place and I always appreciated his references to the past.

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  7. Anonymous3 March 2010 at 23:09

    He looks rough.
    Perhaps he's better suited to Eastenders after all.

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  8. Annie8 March 2010 at 14:25

    Might this have to do with him not getting the producer job?

    Hmmmm...

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