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Paul Abbott Biography
Paul Abbott is one of the most popular and richest TV Producer who was born on February 22, 1960 in England, England, United Kingdom. Producer and writer of television who created the original UK version of the series Shameless and is credited as the US version as well. He has also created acclaimed dramas such as Touching Evil and State of Play.
Emmy Rossum starred on the US version of the series he created, Shameless.
Age 13 he was raped by a stranger, leading to him jumping from the roof of a multi-story car park in an attempt to commit suicide. Two years later after another suicide attempt he was sectioned into an adult mental hospital for a short while, later becoming a voluntary patient. On his release, he was taken into foster care and placed with a much more settled working-class family than his own, where having both adults in steady employment was a new experience for Abbott, as was their television and car. At the same time he began attending a local Sixth Form College and started attending meetings of the Burnley Writers’ Circle after seeing their advert in the local public library. Abbott enrolled at Manchester University in 1980 to study Psychology but decided to leave to concentrate on writing when a radio play was accepted by the BBC.
He worked on Coronation Street for the next eight years as a story editor and from 1989 as a writer. He also worked on other programmes for Granada. In 1988, he co-wrote his first televised drama script, a one-off play for the Dramarama anthology, with fellow Coronation Street writer Kay Mellor. The same year, he and Mellor co-created the children’s medical drama Children’s Ward, which ran for many years—Abbott regularly contributed scripts until 1992, then returned briefly to the show in 1996.
He grew up with seven brothers and sisters, not including him.
| Name | Paul Abbott |
| First Name | Paul |
| Last Name | Abbott |
| Occupation | TV Producer |
| Birthday | February 22 |
| Birth Year | 1960 |
| Place of Birth | England |
| Home Town | England |
| Birth Country | United Kingdom |
| Birth Sign | Pisces |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Saskia Downes , Sheila Culf |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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After writing another serial starring Green, Reckless and a few other productions for Granada, he began in 1999 a collaboration with the independent Red Production Company. He contributed an episode to their anthology series Love in the 21st Century, screened on Channel 4, and in 2000 created and wrote the series Clocking Off for them, which was screened on BBC One. Set in one factory in Lancashire, the series focused on a different member of factory staff each episode. The first season won the BAFTA award for Best Drama Series, and the equivalent at the Royal Television Society awards; Abbott personally was recognised with the RTS Best Writer award. Clocking Off ran for four seasons, although Abbott’s contributions to the final two runs were minimal as he was by this time busy working on other projects.
Paul Abbott Net Worth
Paul Abbott is one of the richest TV Producer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Paul Abbott's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He grew up in a dysfunctional family, much like the family he created for Shameless, and landed in a mental hospital following a failed suicide attempt.
He has won Two British Academy of Film and Television Awards for his series Cracker and Clocking Off.
Paul Abbott (born 22 February 1960) is an English television screenwriter and producer. Abbott has become one of the most critically and commercially successful television writers working in Britain today, following his work on many popular series, including Coronation Street, Cracker and Shameless, the last of which he created. He is also responsible for the creation of some of the most highly acclaimed television dramas of the 1990s and 2000s, including Reckless and Touching Evil for ITV and Clocking Off and State of Play for the BBC.
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | TV Producer |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
In 2001, he created another Red series screened on BBC One, the comedy-drama Linda Green; although this was somewhat less successful and ran for only two seasons before cancellation. In 2000, he was due to adapt the D. H. Lawrence novel Sons and Lovers as a four-part television serial but pulled out due to work commitments.
2002 saw Abbott experimenting with a new genre when he wrote the political thriller State of Play, which was directed by David Yates and produced for the BBC by Hilary Bevan-Jones. In late 2003, Abbott and Bevan-Jones founded their own independent production company, Tightrope Pictures, based in Soho, London.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
Paul Abbott height 6 feet 3 inches Paul weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
| Height | 6 feet 3 inches |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
| Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
In 1994, he worked as the producer on the second season of Granada’s drama series Cracker, about the work of a criminal psychologist played by Robbie Coltrane. The following year he switched to writing scripts for the programme and wrote several episodes. He made his first breakthrough with a programme of his own creation, the police drama serial Touching Evil in 1997. The series, starring popular actor Robson Green, was a success, and two sequel serials—although not written by Abbott—followed. Most recently, in 2004, the series was re-made for American television by the USA Network.
Tightrope Pictures have produced several high-profile dramas for the BBC, including Richard Curtis’s The Girl in the Café (also directed by David Yates for BBC One, 2005) and an adaptation of William Golding’s novel To the Ends of the Earth (BBC Two, 2005).
Who is Paul Abbott Dating?
According to our records, Paul Abbott married to Saskia Downes , Sheila Culf . As of December 1, 2023, Paul Abbott’s is not dating anyone.
Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Paul Abbott. You may help us to build the dating records for Paul Abbott!In early 2004, Channel 4 screened Shameless, a new Abbott series very loosely based on his experiences and family life growing up in Burnley, although the action of the programme itself was changed to Manchester in the present day. At the 2006 British Academy Television Awards, he was given the honorary Dennis Potter Award for Outstanding Writing in Television, and in July of the same year Radio Times magazine placed him at No. 5 in a poll of industry professionals to find The Most Powerful People in Television Drama. Abbott was the highest-placed writer on the list, those above him being actors and executives.
Facts & Trivia
Paul Ranked on the list of most popular TV Producer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Paul Abbott celebrates birthday on February 22 of every year.
In July 2006, it was announced that the University of Salford had appointed Abbott as a visiting professor, and in the same month Manchester Metropolitan University awarded him with an honorary doctorate. Abbott’s November 2006 lecture at Salford entitled “The 21st Century Box” explored how media is changing and provided ‘first aid for British television makers’. Attendees included the Mayor and Mayoress of Salford. In 2013 Dr Beth Johnson (University of Leeds) published the first book-length academic study of Abbott’s work (with Manchester University Press). In 2015 Abbott was awarded an honorary doctorate from Keele University. The first series of Abbott’s latest television drama, a police procedural entitled No Offence aired on Channel 4 beginning in May 2015.
What did Paul Abbott write?
| Occupation | Screenwriter, television producer |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 1982–present |
| Notable works | Touching Evil (1997–99) Clocking Off (2000–2003) State of Play (2003) Shameless (UK) (2004–2013) Shameless (US) (2011–2021) Hit & Miss (2012) No Offence (2015–2018) |
How old is Paul Abbott?
62 years (February 22, 1960)
Is Wolfe manic depressive?
In fact, speaking to the Guardian recently Abbott admitted, “Every character I write has me in them.” One of Abbott’s key aims with Wolfe was to shed more light on bipolar affective disorder, a condition the central character lives with. “I’m bipolar and Wolfe’s manic episodes are like mine,” Abbott told the Guardian.
Is Shameless based on a true story?
Nope, it’s not. The Gallagher family isn’t a real family — well, the one in the show at least.
Does Wolfe have bipolar?
Ceesay stars as the title character Professor Wolfe Kinteh, a leading forensic scientist with bipolar disorder and a penchant for rule-breaking, who balances his rather grisly day job with a somewhat troubled home life.
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