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EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed writer and producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins for practice successful each areas.
“Treadwell-Collins is well-known for crafting high-stakes, culturally resonant tv that commands monolithic world audiences, displayed successful nan smash hit Rivals, which he showran, executive produced, and adapted from Jilly Cooper’s seminal novel,” nan agency touts. The series, which explores 1980s intersexual and group politics, became Disney+’s biggest UK play motorboat to date. Season 1 of Rivals won nan International Emmy Award for Best Drama Series and 2 BAFTA wins.
Additionally, he’s nan laminitis of Happy Prince, a premier play explanation nether ITV Studios. Through his Happy Prince banner, Treadwell-Collins has curated a robust slate of British storytelling. This includes co-writing and processing Graham Norton’s Holding for ITV, Virgin Media, and Acorn TV, and executive producing Jamie Davis’ You & Me with Russell T Davies and Alex Lamb for ITV.
He began his TV profession arsenic a improvement and book adjunct astatine Bentley Productions, moving connected ITV’s Midsomer Murders. From there, he moved to Channel 5’s Family Affairs, yet moving nan communicative section and producing nan show. Treadwell-Collins later joined BBC’s EastEnders as Story Producer for 4 years earlier a stint astatine Kudos’ Lovely Day, processing ITV’s Grantchester and BBC’s Man successful an Orange Shirt. In 2015, he returned to EastEnders as Executive Producer, creating nan show’s “Who Killed Lucy?” storyline, which climaxed aft a twelvemonth pinch a week of unrecorded episodes, reaching complete 20 cardinal viewers and winning aggregate awards, including BAFTA.
Treadwell-Collins besides worked arsenic Head of Television astatine Blueprint Pictures, wherever he executive-produced nan world hit A Very English Scandal for nan BBC and Amazon. Starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw, written by Russell T Davies, and directed by Stephen Frears, nan bid received Golden Globe, Emmy, Critics Choice, and BAFTA awards.
