Abigail Louise Morgan OBE (born 1968) is a Welsh playwright and screenwriter known for her television works, such as Sex Traffic and The Hour, and the films Brick Lane, The Iron Lady, Shame and Suffragette. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan Mazer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, a complete list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Bridget Jones finally has some luck in her life; she has a great job as a screenwriter, her family and a new boyfriend; the fact that he's over twenty years her junior isn't the only thing causing problems.
Release Date:2025-02-12
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:137
A desperate father, alongside a tenacious cop, battles his own demons on the streets of 1980s New York as he searches for his missing nine-year-old son.
Release Date:2024-05-30
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:212
Monologues inspired by women who have spoken out, challenged the status quo or made a stand – often at great personal cost.
Release Date:2018-06-18
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:2
The Defoes, a family of female divorce lawyers, are forced to face their past following the return of their estranged father after a 30 year absence.
Release Date:2018-04-24
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:48
After 43 years together, Helen finds out her husband is leaving.
Release Date:2017-06-26
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
Release Date:2015-10-16
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1619
Respected police officer John River, a gifted cop with a troubled mind, struggles to come to terms with the recent loss of a colleague, and chases a suspect across London - with tragic consequences. Now at odds with the authorities, River ends up in a precarious position as he seeks to bring closure to the mother of murdered teenager, who blames him for failing to keep his promise.
Release Date:2015-10-13
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:191
In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a unique body of work and a lifelong struggle to make films on his own terms. On day one of a Mike Leigh film, there is no script, no story and the actors do not know if they will even be in the final film. It is a process that has yielded some of cinema's most celebrated performances, and Leigh's new film Mr Turner is already winning critical acclaim. Actors including Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan, Sally Hawkins, Lesley Manville and James Corden give fascinating insights into the director and his distinctive method of working.
Release Date:2014-11-24
Character:Self
Vote Count:1
In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the price both must pay.
Release Date:2013-12-25
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:201
Lovesong intricately weaves the story of a couple in the first stages of their life together with the same couple as they approach the end of this story. A delicate mix of storytelling and physical theatre, this production was captured by Digital Theatre live at the Lyric Hammersmith, London.
Release Date:2012-02-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
As an English soldier fights in the horrific trenches of northern France, he is haunted by the memories of his forbidden love affair with a French woman.
Release Date:2012-01-22
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:73
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
Release Date:2011-12-26
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:1742
Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.
Release Date:2011-10-02
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:3191
A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.
Release Date:2011-07-19
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:82
It's July 1981, the Royal Wedding of Charles and Diana. In a small Welsh town where her fifteen-year-old daughter Tammy has organized a street party, Linda Caddock recently made redundant and married to wannabe singer and all-round dreamer Johnny, fears for the future. Neighbour Alan wants her to run off with him. But who will she choose?
Release Date:2010-05-17
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:3
Debbie, a working class single mother from Leeds, moves her family to Bradford, where they find themselves in an ethnic minority. Daughter Leah must adapt to being the only white girl at school.
Release Date:2008-03-10
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:4
The grind of daily life as a Brick Lane Bangladessi as seen through the eyes of Nazneen (Chatterjee), who at 17 enters an arranged marriage with Chanu (Kaushik). Years later, living in east London with her family, she meets a young man Karim (Simpson).
Release Date:2007-11-16
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:39
Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas presents a long overdue assessment of the rich heritage television drama has to offer. Channel 4 invited over 200 of Britain's top television drama professionals – writers, directors, producers and commissioners – to take part in an exclusive poll to discover what they consider the finest dramas ever produced.
Release Date:2007-02-03
Character:Self
The wrenching plight of two Bosnian sisters and their descent into the dark world of enforced prostitution. Their journey is intersected by a British journalist struggling to uncover a conspiracy by American peacekeepers and the machinations of an international charity organization.
Release Date:2004-10-10
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:24
Chris Maurer is killed the day after his 21st birthday and his grieving mother, Angela Maurer, is unable to come to grips with that fact. She is taken advantage of by a self-interested journalist who only cares about getting a front-page story and she is completely dissatisfied with the way the police are handling the case. A local shopkeeper tries to help her through these trying times, but to no avail. The police arrest Chris' friend Ryan McGuinness, after they learn Chris may have spent the night with Ryan's girlfriend but Chris also had a testy relationship with his brother-in-law. The Good Samaritan who found Chris bloodied and beaten on the sidewalk agrees to participate in a reconstruction of the crime. In the end, a simple slip of the tongue reveals the identity of the killer and then the motive for the murder.
Release Date:2002-05-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Sebastian Schipper is adapting Jessica Stern's bestselling memoir "Denial: A Memoir of Terror". The project will be Schipper's English-language debut. It is a deeply personal memoir of her and her sisters's rape, when they were teenagers, by an unknown assailant and of Stern's attempt, decades later, to investigate the unsolved crime and address her own trauma surrounding it.
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Tsunami: The Aftermath is a television mini-series that was broadcast in two parts in 2006. It dramatizes the events following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the resulting tsunami in Thailand. Tsunami: The Aftermath is a joint production of HBO and the BBC and stars Tim Roth, Toni Collette, Sophie Okonedo, Samrit Machielsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Savannah Loney. It was filmed in Phuket and Khao Lak, Thailand from April to June 2006. Phuket and Khao Lak were two of the worst hit areas in the country in the December 26, 2004 disaster.
Release Date:2006-12-10
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:37
Julie Walters stars as a mother dealing with the impact of the sudden murder of her 21 year old son. Each episode follows her story and also focuses on specific characters whose lives are transformed by the event – the journalist who is covering the story; the Indian newsagent who used to sell the victim his fags; and the passerby who happened across his body.
Release Date:2002-05-29
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:2
Trina Lavery returns home to Stoke after 20 years, to look after her ill mother. She learns that Bernard Cleve is also living in Stoke. Bernard was accused of killing Trinas best friend many years ago but was never convicted. Another girl is killed and Bernard is again a suspect. Trina thinks he is innocent but places herself in danger in trying to prove it.
Release Date:2000-09-17
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.
Release Date:1993-05-10
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:9