Hauling Like A Brooligan

Stephen Gallagher

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  • The Atticus Syndrome

    The village of Haworth, Yorkshire home of the Bronte sisters, has pretty much turned itself into a living museum. In fact the parsonage where they grew up is an actual museum, preserved in period, looking across headstones to the church at the top of the town. If you squint and ignore the tourists you can…

  • An Award

    OK, so you can’t read it in the picture, but that’s definitely my name on the shiny plate at the bottom. Just take my word for it, okay? The SOFFIA represents the recognition given by the Society of Fantastic Films to creators and performers with a body of work in the genre. They’ve been presented…

  • Stan Lee’s Lucky Man, Episode 7

    This week’s Radio Times entry for my episode of Stan Lee’s Lucky Man, airing tonight: Nobody would argue this series was out of the top drama drawer, but when it gets a head of steam up it’s got something. For whatever reason, the plot about a London detective (James Nesbitt) and his pursuit of shadowy…

  • Every Day, It’s a-Gettin Closer

    We now have a publication date of September 30th, 2016

  • Ghost Train News

    From Kim Newman: Just a friendly heads-up that, following the sold-out run of The Hallowe’en Sessions in 2012, we’ve put together a new horror anthology play which will run for two weeks in March. We hope you’ll come along and be terrified. The Ghost Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore will run at the Tristan Bates…

  • Oktober Unseen

    Back in ’97 I blagged my way into directing an ITV miniseries based on my novel Oktober. I say blagged, because that’s pretty much how it happened; at an opportune point I inserted myself into the process in such a way that everyone assumed everyone else had signed off on it. To quote producer Lynda…

  • Flowers for Algernon, Japanese Style

    Book cover art by Chris Moore Before Christmas I bought a new Smart TV and only then discovered, as you do, that while the internet sees agreement on almost nothing, it’s united in the opinion that the wifi on Samsung Smart TVs is pants. So I finally got around to creating a wired network using…

  • European TV Drama Lab interview

    Here’s an interview I did in Berlin in 2012. At the time I was about to head over to the US for the pitching season with a pilot based on my novel White Bizango. That script’s currently in turnaround from NBC. Since working on US series I’ve sold half a dozen network pilots, most of…

  • An Award Winning Author Writes:

      To those who scoff at my lack of official recognition, here is my riposte. “The Effect of Alcohol upon The Human Body”. Foreshadowing a lifetime of serious study.

  • Stan Lee’s Lucky Man

    There’s a trailer now: And these mega-sized billboards – I drove into Liverpool over the weekend and counted six of them along the way. New for 2016 from @Sky1, from January 22nd. Created by Stan Lee, developed by Neil Biswas. Episode Seven by me. more here