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Ed McCardie

Writer

About Ed McCardie

Ed has written and produced for television for 20 years, notably writing and producing Shameless across five seasons, creating and writing Spotless for Tandem Productions/ Studio Canal which is available to watch on Netflix. Also, Sneaky Pete for Sony Television, and co-executive producer and writer on Lost in Space, on Netflix.

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In Development

    • Production
    • Company
    • Notes
    • Contemporary True Crime
    • Submarine Productions
    • 6 x 60 series
    • Original Contemporary Thriller Series x6
    • Gaumont/Paramount +
    • Action adventure
    • Original Contemporary Series
    • The Forge/ Sky
    • Action thriller
    • ONE FOOT IN EDEN
    • The Forge
    • Original thriller pilot
    • LAST OF THE MOHICANS
    • Playground/BBC
    • New series development based on the classic novels
    • ORIGINAL SERIES PILOT
    • The Development Partnership
    • Based on classic investigative IP

TV

    • Production
    • Company
    • Notes
    • SNEAKY PETE
    • Sony Television/Amazon
    • Co-executive producer/writer
    • LOST IN SPACE
    • Legendary/Netflix
    • Co-executive producer/writer
    • SPOTLESS
    • Tandem Communications / Canal + Creation
    • Originale Writer (5 eps), Co-creator and Executive Producer Tx on Canal +, March 2015 Tx USA on The Esquire Network, November 2015 Available on Netflix
    • SHAMELESS
    • Company Pictures / Channel 4
    • Series 4-10, 2007-2012 33 x 60 min episodes Winner RTS North West – Best Drama Series 2007 and Best Continuing Drama 2008 Nominated for BAFTA SCOTLAND – Best Writer 2009 – Ed McCardie
    • THE LAST DETECTIVE
    • LTW for ITV
    • 2007 2 episodes 90 mins drama series Episodes: ‘Dangerous’ Liasons’ and ‘Dead Peasants’ Society
    • THE INNOCENCE PROJECT
    • Tightrope for BBC NI
    • 2006 1 episode (Episode 3) 60 min drama series
    • MOLLY
    • BBC
    • 2006 1 x 60 mins original single drama. BBC Birmingham Afternoon Play. Credited under the pseudonym Joseph McIlheney
    • THE GOOD CITIZEN
    • BBC
    • 1 x 60 mins original single drama. BBC Birmingham Afternoon Play. Nominated RTS Midlands Awards, Best Drama Nominated Broadcast Awards, Best Daytime Programme
    • LONDON'S BURNING
    • LTW for ITV
    • 5 x 60 mins; 1 x 120 mins. Wrote six episodes of eight in series 14.
    • NIGHT AND DAY
    • United TV for ITV
    • 6 episodes 30 mins drama series
    • TINSEL TOWN
    • Raindog Televison/Deep Indigo for BBC 2/BBC Scotland
    • 45 mins drama series Winned BAFTA UK, 2001 – Best New Writer, Television Drama Ed McCardie Winner The Pitch £10,000 Development Award at The Drama Forum, 1998 (Project: Thicker Than Water)

Film

    • Production
    • Company
    • Notes
    • BILLY AND ZORBA
    • Tartan Shorts
    • 20 mins 35mm Santuri/Ideal World in association with Scottish Screen and BBC Scotland. The relationship between a troubled boy and a local fisherman who thinks he’s Zorba the Greek. Winner Best International Short – Brooklyn Film Festival, 2000
    • HARDNUT- A LOVE STORY
    • Prime Cuts
    • 7 mins 16mm Scottish Film Production Fund, British Screen and Scottish Television. Janet is Willie’s unrequited love, and the only tool in his armoury is a head thicker than a butcher’s block. Nominated BAFTA Scotland New Talent – Best New Writer Nominated BAFTA Scotland – Best Short Film

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