Which Liverpool born writer penned the comedy series Butterflies?
"""Butterflies"" are available on DVD in the UK, distributed by Acorn Media UK. Only the first two series are available in the US. Butterflies (TV series) Butterflies is a British sitcom series written by Carla Lane that was broadcast on BBC2 from 1978 to 1983. The situation is the day-to-day life of the Parkinson family in a bittersweet style. There are both traditional comedy sources (Ria's cooking, family squabbles) and more unusual sources such as Ria's unconsummated relationship with the outwardly-successful Leonard. Ria is still in love with her husband, Ben, and has raised two potentially fine sons, yet finds"
"Carla Lane Romana Barrack (5 August 1928 – 31 May 2016), known professionally as Carla Lane, , was an English television writer responsible for several successful sitcoms, including ""The Liver Birds"" (co-creator, 1969–78), ""Butterflies"" (1978–83) and ""Bread"" (1986–91). Lane was described as ""the television writer who dared to make women funny""; much of her work focused on strong women characters, including ""frustrated housewives and working class matriarchs"". In later years she became well known as an animal welfare advocate. Lane was born in West Derby, Liverpool. Her father, Cardiff-born Gordon De Vince Barrack, served in the Merchant Navy. She attended"
"Taylor and Lane would often meet at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool to write together. Myra Taylor (scriptwriter) Myra Taylor (born 1937 in Liverpool) was a British television scriptwriter. Although her writing career was not particularly extensive, she did play a significant role in two of the more popular British TV comedies of the 1970s. She jointly-created ""The Liver Birds"" with Carla Lane (whom she met at a writers' club), although she only wrote a few of the early episodes before going her own way at the end of the second series. She was one of a team of scriptwriters"
"scripts, most notably ""The Blue Max"" (1966). He was also one of several script writers for a life of Gandhi (1964). Novelist Beryl Bainbridge (1932–2010) was born in Liverpool and raised in nearby Formby. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often set among the English working classes. Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996 and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. ""The Times"" newspaper named Bainbridge among their list of ""The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"". J. G. Farrell was born in Liverpool in 1935 but left"
"The Liver Birds The Liver Birds is a British sitcom, set in Liverpool, North West England, which aired on BBC1 from April 1969 to January 1979, and again in 1996. The show was created by Carla Lane and Myra Taylor. The two Liverpudlian housewives had met at a local writers club and decided to pool their talents. Having been invited to London by Michael Mills, the BBC's then Head of Comedy, and asked to write about two women sharing a flat, Mills brought in sitcom expert Sydney Lotterby to work with the writing team. Lotterby had previously worked with Eric"
"haunt one's memory ..."" Cather scholar Bernice Slote, writing of Cather's commentary in the 1960s, opined that ""Although he was able to write good plays, Henry Guy Carleton had only moderate success in New York, and mostly with ""The Butterflies"" (1894)."" ""A Gilded Fool"" was adapted into a silent film in 1915. Henry Guy Carleton Henry Guy Carleton (June 21, 1851 – December 10, 1910) was an American humorist, playwright, and journalist. He was best known for his comedic plays ""A Gilded Fool"" (1892) and ""The Butterflies"" (1894). Carleton was born at Fort Union, New Mexico on June 21, 1851"
"A Cage of Butterflies A Cage of Butterflies is a 1992 young adult novel by Australian author, Brian Caswell. The story is set in a research facility (known as the ""farm"") involving two groups of people. The first group contains several teenagers with IQs above 150. These teenagers (Greg, Mikki, Lesley, Gordon, Gretel, Katie and Chris) call themselves the ""Think Tank"". However, this group is merely a smokescreen for the real subjects of the research - five seven-year-olds who are able to communicate telepathically, known as the ""Babies"". The Babies are called Pep, Ricardo, Ian, Rachael and Myriam. The Babies"
"Dick Clement Dick Clement (born 5 September 1937) is an English writer known for his writing partnership with Ian La Frenais. They are most famous for television series including ""The Likely Lads"", ""Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?"", ""Porridge"", ""Lovejoy"" and ""Auf Wiedersehen, Pet"". Born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, Clement was educated at Bishop's Stortford College, and then spent a year in the United States on an exchange visit. Upon his return, he completed his National Service with the Royal Air Force. He then joined the BBC as a studio manager and started writing scripts and comedy sketches. Dick Clement"
"Butterflies (1993 film) Butterflies is a 1993 Indian Malayalam-language comedy drama film directed by Rajiv Anchal and written by A. K. Sajan. The film stars Mohanlal, Aishwarya, Nassar, and Jagadish. Aishwarya played dual roles as twin sisters. The film was produced by Menaka. The film was shot in Bangalore, India after the originally planned film ""Australia"" was dropped. Prince (Mohanlal) is a race car driver and the son of industrialist Bharathan Menon(K. P. Ummer) and Sreedevi Menon (Sukumari). He lives a happy-go-lucky life style spending time racing cars, entertaining his nephews in his farm house and hanging out with his"
"Henry Guy Carleton Henry Guy Carleton (June 21, 1851 – December 10, 1910) was an American humorist, playwright, and journalist. He was best known for his comedic plays ""A Gilded Fool"" (1892) and ""The Butterflies"" (1894). Carleton was born at Fort Union, New Mexico on June 21, 1851 (or 1856), the son of General James H. Carleton. He graduated from Santa Clara College and briefly served in the army during the Indian Wars of the 1870s before going to work for the New Orleans ""Times"" in 1876. He later spent time in Chicago, and then went to New York and"
"So far Series 2 and 3 have been released onto DVD, but Acorn has no plans to release any further series. The Liver Birds The Liver Birds is a British sitcom, set in Liverpool, North West England, which aired on BBC1 from April 1969 to January 1979, and again in 1996. The show was created by Carla Lane and Myra Taylor. The two Liverpudlian housewives had met at a local writers club and decided to pool their talents. Having been invited to London by Michael Mills, the BBC's then Head of Comedy, and asked to write about two women sharing"
"In the theatre, in February 1969 he designed the graphics for controversial Jane Arden play ""Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven"" at the London Arts Laboratory, Drury Lane. He is possibly best known, however, for the picture book ""The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper Feast"" (1973), a series of illustrations of anthropomorphic insects and other creatures, which he created in collaboration with Harry Willock, William Plomer wrote the accompanying verses. This was based on William Roscoe's poem of the same name, but was inspired when Aldridge read that John Tenniel had told Lewis Carroll it was impossible to draw a"
"Beryl Bainbridge Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer from Liverpool. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996; she was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. She was described in 2007 as ""a national treasure"". In 2008, ""The Times"" named Bainbridge on their list of ""The 10 greatest British writers since 1945"". Beryl Bainbridge was born in Liverpool and brought up in nearby Formby. Her parents"
"""wickedly funny caper"". CrimeSpace called it ""a fun treat"". An audio play has been produced by the BBC in 2011. Black Butterfly (novel) Black Butterfly is the third and final novel in Mark Gatiss' Lucifer Box trilogy, which deals with the exploits of a bisexual British detective and secret agent. The previous volumes were ""The Vesuvius Club"" and ""The Devil in Amber"". It is 1953, shortly after the coronation of Elizabeth II. Box is now nearing retirement, and has also been left with an unexpected offspring, Christmas Box. However, he discovers that elderly pillars of the British establishment are meeting"
"Butterfly (TV series) Butterfly is a three-part British television drama series that premiered on 14 October 2018. Made for ITV by Red Production Company, the series focuses on the family of an 11-year-old child Maxine (Callum Booth-Ford) who begins to realise that she is a trans girl. Anna Friel and Emmett J. Scanlan play her parents, Vicky and Stephen, who reluctantly begin to accept Maxine's need to transition. The series was created by Tony Marchant, who met transgender people and their families during the writing process through trans charity Mermaids. It garnered positive reception, with critics praising the characterisation of"
"The Butterfly Children The Butterfly Children is the title of a series of children's books created by husband and wife team, Pat and Angela Mills. The books were published during the 1990s by Peter Haddock Ltd. In 1990 a musical based on the characters was staged featuring songs written by Martin Lee, Paul Curtis and David Kane. A corresponding album was recorded in 1992 by pop group Brotherhood of Man. The books were short picture books, illustrated by Angela Mills and written by her and her then husband Pat Mills. Some of the later books were written by other writers"
"Dave Spikey Dave Spikey (born David Gordon Bramwell, 6 October 1951) is an English comedian, actor, writer and film producer. He is best known for his stand-up comedy, writing and starring in the British comedy programme ""Phoenix Nights"", presenting quiz shows such as ""Bullseye"" and ""Chain Letters"" and playing team captain in the first four series of ""8 Out of 10 Cats"". Born in Farnworth, Lancashire, Spikey spent his early career working as a biomedical scientist in the haematology laboratory at Bolton General Hospital. It was during this period in the 1980s that Spikey scripted and performed in a number"
"the Queen's 2007 Birthday Honours list. They have written the book for two stage musicals in development, Juke Box Hero and Victoria's Secret. Two new television series will air in 2017: a new version of Porridge, starring Kevin Bishop for the BBC and Henry IX for UKTV, starring Charles Edwards. Spies of Warsaw (2013) Dick Clement Dick Clement (born 5 September 1937) is an English writer known for his writing partnership with Ian La Frenais. They are most famous for television series including ""The Likely Lads"", ""Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?"", ""Porridge"", ""Lovejoy"" and ""Auf Wiedersehen, Pet"". Born in"
"Catherine Butterfield Catherine Butterfield (born February 5, 1958 in Manhattan, New York City, New York) is an American playwright, TV/film writer and actress. Her play ""Joined at the Head"" was performed at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 1992 and won the Robert L. Stevens/Kennedy Center award for excellence, as well as being published in ""Best Plays of 1992-93"" (). Mel Gussow wrote, ""In this, her first full-length play to be presented in New York, Butterfield is revealed as a playwright with a refreshing talent for probing the reality of relationships. In a manner related to that of Tom Stoppard and"
"The Butterfly Revolution The Butterfly Revolution is a novel by author William Butler, first published in 1961. Set in an American spring camp for boys, Camp High Pines, the novel is written as the diary of thirteen-year-old protagonist Winston Weyn. Winston, an educated and somewhat bullish boy, is sent to Camp High Pines as a gift for his birthday. Winston's father, who is concerned by his son's lack of interest in ""normal"" activities such as sports and playing outside, feels attending camp will be a healthy activity for his son. The campers at High Pines are categorized in three groups:"
"Paul Cornell Paul Douglas Cornell (born 18 July 1967) is a British writer best known for his work in television drama as well as ""Doctor Who"" fiction, and as the creator of one of the Doctor's spin-off companions, Bernice Summerfield. As well as ""Doctor Who"", other British television dramas for which he has written include ""Robin Hood"", ""Primeval"", ""Casualty"", ""Holby City"" and ""Coronation Street"". For US television, he has contributed an episode to the modern-day set Sherlock Holmes series ""Elementary"". Cornell has also written for a number of British comics, as well as Marvel Comics and DC Comics in America,"
"platform Twitter featured a relationship involving Jim DeBerry and Bainbridge in tip number 15. In 2013 he wrote a book titled ""A Snid Of Milk"". Gary Bainbridge Gary Bainbridge is a columnist for the Daily Mirror and writer for the Liverpool Echo. Previously, he was a columnist and writer for the now defunct Liverpool Daily Post. He also writes sketches and sitcoms; his sitcom ""Bunk Beds"" (working title) has been optioned by Retort and ""Shelf Life"" (co-written with Griff Phillips) was recently performed at The Canal Cafe Theatre as part of their Radio Rejects season. A number of his sketches"
"Jennifer Sullivan (writer) Jennifer ""Jenny"" Sullivan (born 1945) is a Welsh children's writer and former literary critic. She is best known for her Magic Apostrophe series of fantasy books for children. Sullivan was born in Cardiff, Wales, to Londoner Frederick Anderson (1900–1993), an electrician, and Phyllis (1905–2009), a short story writer. Sullivan worked as a book critic for some years while her children were growing up. She has always written fiction, and during early professional years wrote mainly adult short stories. She has written a number of popular books, mostly suitable for 7–12 year olds, with Welsh themes incorporated into"
"Steven Moffat Steven William Moffat (; born 18 November 1961) is a Scottish television writer and producer, best known for his work as showrunner, writer and executive producer of British television series ""Doctor Who"" and ""Sherlock"". Moffat's first television work was the teen drama series ""Press Gang"". His first sitcom, ""Joking Apart"", was inspired by the breakdown of his first marriage; conversely, his later sitcom ""Coupling"" was based upon the development of his relationship with television producer Sue Vertue. In between the two relationship-centred shows, he wrote ""Chalk"", a sitcom set in a comprehensive school inspired by his own experience"
"Richard Dinnick Richard Dinnick (born 22 January 1968) is a British screenwriter, novelist, comic book writer and audio playwright. Dinnick is the winner of the 2012 BBC Writersroom opportunity to create a new show and to write for TV on the BBC and went on to write for the CBeebies TV shows ""Tree Fu Tom"" and ""Go Jetters"" - amongst others - as well as Mind Candy's new ""Moshi Monsters"" TV show. He was one of six finalists in a 2014 BBC Academy opportunity to workshop a script for ""Waterloo Road"". In 2015 Dinnick became Head Writer on the new"
"Linda Chapman Linda Anne Chapman (born 15 January 1969 in Liverpool) is a British writer, principally of series for younger children. She is particularly known for her fantasy books about unicorns, mermaids and magic. She also writes the Spell Sisters series as Amber Castle and the Superpowers series as Alex Cliff (her own pseudonyms). She has written several of the series books published under the names Lucy Daniels, Jenny Dale (Puppy Patrol), Katie Chase (Little Princesses), Daisy Meadows (Rainbow Magic), and Lauren Brooke, either as part of a collective pseudonym or as a ghostwriter. She has written ""about 200"" books."
"Black Butterfly (novel) Black Butterfly is the third and final novel in Mark Gatiss' Lucifer Box trilogy, which deals with the exploits of a bisexual British detective and secret agent. The previous volumes were ""The Vesuvius Club"" and ""The Devil in Amber"". It is 1953, shortly after the coronation of Elizabeth II. Box is now nearing retirement, and has also been left with an unexpected offspring, Christmas Box. However, he discovers that elderly pillars of the British establishment are meeting unexpected deaths through participation in reckless risk taking and accidents. He tracks the perpetrators to Istanbul, is assisted by Turkish-Geordie"
"Litten wrote the script for the pilot episode for the remake of ""Are You Being Served?"" Derren Litten Derren Litten is an English comedy writer and actor. He is best known as the creator and writer of the award-winning sitcom ""Benidorm"". Litten also co-wrote the award-winning ""The Catherine Tate Show"", for which he both wrote and appeared as several different characters in the first two series and the 2005 Christmas Special. He has also acted in many comedy and drama series including ""Perfect World"", ""French and Saunders"", ""Spaced"", ""EastEnders"", ""Green Wing"" and ""Pie in The Sky"" with Richard Griffiths. His"
"Ester Brymová Ester Brymová (pronounced ""bree-maw-va"") (born 4 September 1978), also Ester Brym is a film director, producer and editor. In 1997 she moved to New York City to pursue studies in film-making. She worked as an editor in independent cinema until 2008 when she decided to move to Los Angeles to direct her first feature film “""Butterflies""”. ""Butterflies"", a documentary about YouTubers, is the first film that puts YouTube on a big screen and introduces the world of new and social media. """"Butterflies"" is the first film, that profiles the life of Internet celebrity as a new phenomenon,"" says"
"In the book, Ruby writes in a notepad she calls a MEMORANDUM. In the end, Ruby apologises to Garnet, and they both realise that they can still be together while apart, as long as they remember each other. Garnet leaves for school, and writes a letter about how much she is enjoying it. Adult versions of Ruby and Garnet appear in The Butterfly Club. Ruby has become a children's television presenter named Ruby Red, and Garnet is a scriptwriter and producer. The telefilm was made in 2001 for Channel 4 and screened in 2002, starring Birmingham twins, Zoe and Chloe"
"Robin French Robin French (born 1978, Birmingham) is an English playwright, film and television writer and songwriter. French’s father is English, his mother is from Barbados. French studied Modern and Medieval Languages at Selwyn College, Cambridge University where he graduated with first-class honours in 2001. While at Cambridge he was active in the Cambridge Footlights and won two play-writing competitions. French's sitcom ""Cuckoo"", co-created and co-written with Kieron Quirke started to air on BBC Three and BBC One in 2012, with the second series in 2014 and the third series in 2016. The series launch became BBC Three's most-watched comedy"
"a working class district north of the city) was played by Sheila Fay. Future ""Emmerdale"" actor Elizabeth Estensen as Carol Boswell replaced Beryl from Series 5 onwards. The title comes from the name given to two sculpted birds perched on top of the Royal Liver Building at Pier Head in the city of Liverpool. Michael Mills, who commissioned the series, came up with the title, although it was initially disliked by Carla Lane. The Scaffold—a pop group including Mike McCartney (brother of former Beatle Paul McCartney), poet Roger McGough and John Gorman of ""Tiswas"" fame—sang the title song. The title"
"Derren Litten Derren Litten is an English comedy writer and actor. He is best known as the creator and writer of the award-winning sitcom ""Benidorm"". Litten also co-wrote the award-winning ""The Catherine Tate Show"", for which he both wrote and appeared as several different characters in the first two series and the 2005 Christmas Special. He has also acted in many comedy and drama series including ""Perfect World"", ""French and Saunders"", ""Spaced"", ""EastEnders"", ""Green Wing"" and ""Pie in The Sky"" with Richard Griffiths. His first sitcom ""Benidorm"" which he is the main writer of, has been co-written on occasions by"