Hauling Like A Brooligan

Stephen Gallagher

Author: Steve

  • At Home on the Range

    ‘Tis truly weird. I’ve been here about three weeks now and it feels like longer… kind of like on a ship when home drops below the horizon and you can’t see it anymore, you have to imagine it instead. Which is dumb, I know, after only three weeks… but in my defence, it has been…

  • Family Ties (2)

    Well, there was an upside to the delay in getting my visa. It meant that I was in London for long enough to catch my daughter’s grad show at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire – and on Father’s Day, too. It was a great gig with lots of talent all round, and seriously well-attended. I stood…

  • Screenwriting Sense

    Talks on writing can be useful and fun. Usually if they’re fun, they’re useful – at the heart of all entertainment is a sense of play, and the art of the Art is learning to play to a purpose. On the positive side, I attended a MediaXchange event in London in 2002 in which a…

  • On the Lot

    Well, now it’s official. According to my 0-1 visa I’m an Alien of Extraordinary Talent and Ability. Yeah, I know, I know. Even my bank manager thought it was hilarious. Apparently there’s also a category of Alien Crew Member in Transit. Sometimes they go on the run and we aliens of extraordinary ability have to…

  • Family Ties

    If you happen to be in West London this weekend, you can go and hear my kid sing at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Or you could take the easy way out and go to ellengallagher.co.uk with your speakers on. Now, don’t get ahead of me, but a few years back I wrote a short…

  • Let’s All Recycle

    My first toe-in-the-blogosphere was this guest post for Danny Stack’s Scriptwriting in the UK. Here it is again: I am nothing if not frugal. Danny has kindly invited me to contribute a guest post, but has concluded his invitation with that most generous of terms, “anything on any subject that you care to discuss”. If…

  • Sisyphus Lives

    I just spent an afternoon stripping all the elements of a stereo out of one room in the house, only to replace them with the corresponding parts of a stereo from another room in the house. Why? You might well ask. What I’ve reinstalled is one of those setups with separate components and an incredible…

  • Okay, Venus?

    Can’t resist passing this on from those cunning wallet-draining fiends at Network DVD: To celebrate the definitive release of Gerry Anderson’s Fireball XL5, Network have arranged a special event on Saturday 27 June at the Odeon Covent Garden. To open there will be a 35mm screening of ‘The Day The Earth Froze’, newly struck from…

  • Killer Robots On The Bubble

    Thanks to Piers Beckley for a heads-up to the fact that Josh Friedman, showrunner on The Sarah Connor Chronicles, has returned to blogging with this post on what it was like to be working on the Warners lot and waiting for word on his show’s fate. I watched all the episodes of Sarah Connor. Didn’t…

  • The UK Writer in US TV (2)

    They don’t get rid of me that easily. I’ve now joined ABC’s The Forgotten as co-executive producer, working as part of the team to bring creator Mark Friedman’s vision to the screen in the fall schedule. “The Forgotten Network” is a group of amateur detectives united in their quest to give names to unnamed victims,…