Colin McKeown (Producer)

Brookside

The ground-breaking soap set in a housing estate on the outskirts of Liverpool.

Release Date1982-11-02

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count20

Granite Harbour

Lance Corporal Davis Lindo arrives in Aberdeen Scotland as a new detective trainee. Having completed his final tour with the Royal Military Police, Lindo dreams of being a detective at New Scotland Yard. However, he finds himself being sent to train as a Detective Constable in the North East of Scotland, he must quickly adapt to his new life in Aberdeen, a world away from anything the soldier has known before.

Release Date2022-12-01

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count3

Vote Count14

Play for Today

Revival of the 1970s and 80s series of individual plays, originally shown on the BBC, now freshly-commissioned for Channel 5 and a whole new era of life in Britain.

Release Date2025-11-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count4

Damon and Debbie

Damon and Debbie is a three-part 'soap bubble' from Brookside, broadcast across three November 1987 Wednesday evenings on Channel 4. Produced by Mersey Television, the three-part series is written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and directed by Bob Carlton. Teen sweethearts Damon Grant and Debbie McGrath flee their disapproving parents in Liverpool, only to end up on the lam and culminating in tragedy.

Release Date1987-11-04

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count3

Vote Count2

Secrets and Words

Secrets and Words is a British drama television series shown on BBC One. Each episode is a story on the theme of adult literacy.

Release Date2012-03-26

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count5

O Jerusalem

A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.

Release Date2006-10-17

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count32

Anthony

In July 2005, black teenager Anthony Walker was murdered by two white men in an unprovoked racist attack in a Liverpool park. He was just 18 years old. This film tells the story of how this talented young man's life might have turned out.

Release Date2020-07-27

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6

9 Dead Gay Guys

The story of two lads from Belfast as they stumble their way through the London gay underworld in search of 'gainful employment'. This being the offering of sexual favours to older gay men in order to subsidise their respective giros. 9 Dead Gay Guys is a high-camp send-up of gay stereotypes.

Release Date2002-10-18

DepartmentProduction

JobCo-Producer

Vote Count43

Liam

A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his first Holy Communion, gets a regular dose of fire and brimstone at church. Teresa, about 13, has a job as a maid to the Jewish family that owns the closed shipyard. The lady of that house is having an affair, and Teresa becomes an accomplice. Liam stutters terribly, especially when troubled. Dad comes under the sway of the Fascists, who blame cheap Irish labor and Jewish owners. A Molotov cocktail brings things to a head.

Release Date2001-01-23

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count41

Care

Jenny, a single mother raising two daughters after her husband leaves, is aided by her widowed mother, Mary. But Jenny struggles to stay afloat after Mary suffers a devastating stroke and develops dementia.

Release Date2018-12-09

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count11