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	Jimmy McGovern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jimmy McGovern (born 1949 in Liverpool) is an English television scriptwriter, known for his powerful and thought-provoking dramas often based around hard-hitting social issues or controversial real-life events.
		Since Cracker, his work has included BBC One drama serial The Lakes (1997-99), ITV's Hillsborough (1997, a dramatised reconstruction of the events of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster), Sunday (2002) for Channel 4, based on the events of 'Bloody Sunday', and The Street (2006) for BBC One.
		A second series of The Street is currently in production with McGovern as lead writer; a script by Danny Brocklehurst will be included in the series.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jimmy_McGovern (287 words)

	Times Interview with Jimmy McGovern
		Jimmy McGovern is writing two other television dramas and a third series of Cracker for broadcast later this year, early next.
		Teachers are quite well-paid actually.'' McGovern did not ignore the economic realities of the dole queue, but neither did he ignore individual human beings: behaving badly, behaving decently in a mess not all of their making, but not all of some system's making either.
		Jimmy McGovern is born, the fifth of what will be the nine children of a working-class Catholic couple in a two up, two down in Liverpool.
	www.crackertv.co.uk /timesinterviewwithmcgovern.htm (2503 words)

	Dockers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Dockers isn't a 'Jimmy McGovern project,' or an 'Irvine Welsh film.' This is the story that a group of dockers, and two women involved in the dispute, decided to write at a workshop in Liverpool.
		Jimmy wrote a speech for a scab character and brought it to the workshop.
		Jimmy McGovern says "I knew the dockers would have great stories that could be turned into great scenes, but I couldn't have expected that they would take to the writing process as well as they did.
	www.parallaxindependent.co.uk /pnote_dockers_story.html (1014 words)

	Jimmy McGovern
		Jimmy McGovern is without doubt one of the most important TV and film screenwriters to have emerged from the UK over the past 20 years.
		You certainly always know when you are watching something penned by McGovern, due to his very particular way of writing and he is of course one of the few television writers brave enough to tackle such issues as racism, rape and the Hillsborough disaster.
		In particular, Jimmy McGovern's 'Mad Woman In The Attic', 'Men Should Weep' and 'Brotherly Love' are considerably different to the final televised versions, and feature many scenes that presumably either got changed or cut from the final scripts.
	www.crackertv.co.uk /jimmymcgovern.htm (578 words)

	A few months back I asked the author Irvine Welsh who his hero’s were (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		McGovern was born in 1949; the fifth of what would be nine children of a working-class Catholic couple in a two up, two down in Liverpool.
		McGovern was pleased to know that I had spoken to an ex-paratrooper a few weeks earlier who’d told me he thought that what appeared “was realistic” with the exception of one small item, namely: “the guns don’t ricochet that far back when you fire downwards.” Interesting and very frightening.
		McGovern who cites Gary Cooper in High Noon as his own boyhood hero, and Tony Benn in more recent times, is currently working on producing a drama on Mary Queen of Scots and her son James the first.
	www.red-star-research.org.uk /rpm/jimmymcgovern.html (1031 words)

	Cracker (UK TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cracker is the title of a television crime series in the United Kingdom, made by Granada Television for ITV and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern.
		Although Jimmy McGovern wrote the majority of the early stories, Ted Whitehead contributed the fifth serial, "The Big Crunch".
		Claiming that he had "nothing more to write about," [1] McGovern originally planned to leave after the second season, but was allowed to write the controversial rape storyline, "Men Should Weep", when he agreed to contribute a three-part story to the third season, and returned to write the 2006 story "Nine Eleven".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cracker_(British_television) (1566 words)

	George McGovern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As a college student, McGovern was twice elected class president and won the state oratorical contest with the topic "My Brother's Keeper," an avowal of his belief in one's responsibility to humankind.
		McGovern returned to Dakota Wesleyan University in 1950 as a professor of history and political science, where he became a beloved and respected faculty member.
		McGovern was then elected to the Senate in 1962 and reelected in 1968 and 1974.
	www.mcgovernlibrary.com /george.htm (690 words)

	BBC - Drama - The Street - Jimmy McGovern
		Jimmy McGovern is one of British television's most prolific and influential writing talents.
		Born in Liverpool, and brought up in what he describes as a 'slum', Jimmy got his TV break writing on Channel 4's soap Brookside*.
		Jimmy also highlighted the plight of the striking Liverpool dockers in 1999's Dockers*, which he penned with Trainspotting writer Irvine Welsh.
	www.bbc.co.uk /drama/thestreet/jimmy_mcgovern.shtml (283 words)

	Arts Today - 19/07/2001: Liam
		Jimmy McGovern is of course the writer who crafted the screenplays for Cracker and The Lakes.
		McGovern said it helped make him a writer: that books, and the stories he was told by Mam and the other women on the Liverpool streets of his childhood, were his way out of silence.
		McGovern has crafted fine characters, whom we see in their most intense moments of closeness and betrayal.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/atoday/stories/s332731.htm (646 words)

	SUNDAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		McGovern's brilliantly scripted piece concentrates on the run-up to the civil rights march that went so terribly wrong, and the controversial inquiry afterwards.
		What drew… (Jimmy McGovern to write 'Sunday') was precisely the things which make Bloody Sunday different, and which gave the day pivotal significance in the politics of Britain and Ireland.
		McGovern shows the source of the evil which burst on the Bogside located in the conscious intentions of the political, military and legal elite…..
	www.sundayfilm.net /ReviewsIr.htm (1668 words)

	SUNDAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		McGovern imagined that the people of Derry with whom he would now be spending a considerable amount of time might have some issues with him and 'all things British,' as he puts it.
		McGovern's research brought him into contact with representatives of all sides involved on the day of the march.
		McGovern feels he has managed to draw on so many different sources that the picture his drama paints is truly reflective of the testimony of those that were there on the day.
	www.sundayfilm.net /Interview.htm (789 words)

	Johann Hari - Archive
		Jimmy McGovern's latest project, the Channel 4 film Sunday, which marks the 30th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday massacre, has already generated huge controversy.
		Yet McGovern is clear that, however understandable their initial panic, the soldiers unforgivably lied in the aftermath.
		McGovern was initially mystified as to why Lord Saville allowed the film to go ahead while he was conducting his investigation.
	www.johannhari.com /archive/article.php?id=171 (1713 words)

	Digging for plot - TV & Radio - www.theage.com.au
		McGovern, the Liverpudlian writer who brought us Hillsborough, Dockers, The Lakes and Sunday, as well as the acclaimed series Cracker, was asked by his longtime friend and producer Gub Neal if he would make the Guy Fawkes drama for the BBC.
		McGovern has her ignoring the panting demands of the blunt, grubby-but-loyal aide Lord Bothwell and quickly hitched to Lord Darnley, said to be the best-looking man in Europe.
		Jimmy McGovern brings James I to the screen as a raging, cowardly, sadistic, murderous bisexual capable of moments of sheer genius...
	www.theage.com.au /news/TV--Radio/Digging-for-plot/2004/11/10/1100021863214.html (1227 words)

	Two films mark thirtieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday
		Both Paul Greengrass and Jimmy McGovern have used this new evidence in their films, as well as that previously denied by the British government and the army.
		Both Greengrass and McGovern show Ford’s desire to provoke a confrontation, but McGovern’s broader focus enables him to be much more explicit as regards the political responsibility for the murders and their subsequent cover-up.
		McGovern’s film seems more optimistic as far as the future development of Ireland is concerned, but both film-makers see NICRA-style liberal reformism as the only possible guarantor against a return to sectarian conflict.
	wsws.org /articles/2002/feb2002/ire-f21.shtml (2235 words)

	Cracker
		In a typical McGovern move, an anonymous caller claiming to be a "priest" tells the police he knows who "Sweeny" is and that the body of an earlier victim is lying at the bottom of the canal...
		Even when Fitz pushes the caretaker into the pool and Jimmy is forced to jump in and save him, Jimmy still believes the caretaker is the guilty man. When the dispatcher pays the caretaker a visit and almost beats him to death in the elevator, Jimmy is sent to arrest the demented husband.
		McGovern wrote this script -- again the scenes and dialogue are swift and brutal, the action following the maxim, drama is the juxtaposition of the expected against the unexpected.
	www.culturecourt.com /M/LR/Cracker/Cracker.htm (4986 words)

	UKTV: Personalities: Profile: Jimmy McGovern
		Jimmy McGovern is one of the best writers working in television and film today.
		Jimmy clearly has a soft spot for that period in history.
		Granada has confirmed that Robbie Coltrane and Jimmy McGovern are interested in working on a new Cracker special together.
	www.uktv.co.uk /?uktv=standarditem.index&aID=527913 (588 words)

	Cracker
		When writer Jimmy McGovern pitched the idea of a drama series about a criminal psychologist who worked with the Manchester police, Granada Television was bound to see it as a good bet.
		It was a subject close to McGovern's heart, which he has further developed in a new drama for Granada.
		McGovern arranged for a consultation with families of the victims of Hillsborough, including a special screening of the story to ensure that the story didn't offend or trivialize the disaster in any way.
	members.tripod.com /Plockton/Cracker.html (1427 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jimmy McGovern's new TV drama follows the fortunes of six neighbours in the North-west.
		The writer Jimmy McGovern has launched his new drama series, The Street, in characteristically outspoken, headline-grabbing fashion.
		Alongside Paul Abbott, Russell T Davies and Andrew Davies, McGovern is one of the few writers working in British TV with what is known in the industry as "green-light status" - his name attached to a project is enough to get it commissioned.
	news.independent.co.uk /people/profiles/article357112.ece (275 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Cracker writer attacks ITV drama
		Speaking at the launch of his new BBC One drama The Street, McGovern said he did not watch TV drama because it was formulaic and he had been "so disappointed in the past".
		McGovern said he invited top writers to submit scripts for The Street but was disappointed by the "dispiriting" quality.
		The ITV spokeswoman said: "Jimmy is obviously entitled to his own views but we assume he is excluding the fantastic new Cracker he has written for ITV1 that will be coming up in that slot in the autumn."
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/4794478.stm (268 words)

	Men behaving badly - TV & Radio - www.smh.com.au
		Jimmy McGovern can, and he thinks we'll find it in his two-part historical miniseries, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot.
		The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was a foiled attempt by Catholics, led by Fawkes, to blow up Parliament and with it Mary's son, King James I, who'd assumed the English throne when the childless Queen Elizabeth I died two years earlier.
		The big difference, however, is that in Mary McGovern wrote a romance ("it's basically about a man who loved a woman who was unattainable, a plotline that always works"), but in James he's back to doing what he did so well in Cracker - strip-mining the psyche to expose what motivates people to act badly.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/11/09/1099781380363.html?from=storylhs (686 words)

	George McGovern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As a boy, McGovern lived through the heart-rending drought of the Depression, when dust storms and grasshoppers destroyed the crops of the Great Plains.
		In the Kennedy administration, McGovern became the first director of the U.S. Food for Peace program, which quietly saved millions of lives and contributed more to worldwide social and economic development than any other American program.
		The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum, one of ten Presidential Libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, is located at 441 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30307.
	www.jimmycarterlibrary.org /pastexhibits/geoMcgovern.phtml (529 words)

	The Street
		McGovern has demonstrated similar ingenuity in previous shows such as "Cracker" and "The Lakes," and he has assembled a top-flight cast and creative team to tell these new extraordinary tales of ordinary people.
		McGovern is remarkable in being able to take familiar dramatic paths and still drive his stories to unexpected places.
		That McGovern could attract such an A-list cast for "The Street" comes as no surprise as their work here is equal to their best.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002343502 (555 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Mary Queen of Scots heads off to Romania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The combination of Sean Connery’s cash, Jimmy McGovern’s writing talent and the tragic tale of Mary Queen of Scots seemed too good to be true.
		McGovern is noted for his meaty, often controversial television dramas, which include Cracker and Hillsborough.
		In the wake of Braveheart’s Oscar triumph, Cracker writer Jimmy McGovern is hard at work on a screenplay about Mary Queen of Scots for Scottish producers Catherine Aitken and Gill Parry.
	news.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=873152003 (1407 words)

	Liverpool Dockers Film Review
		My own ovation and praise to Jimmy McGovern’s ability and skill at bringing out the talents of people whose lives had been fundamentally regimented toward a singular pattern of work, whether that be at the waterfront or in the home, compares with the most complimentary views.
		Referring at one stage to the quality of TV drama, Jimmy McGovern stated quite rightly “It is wrong to pick the brains of people who have been through hell” and stated that all writers (I assume he means professional) are ’vultures’.
		Perhaps Jimmy was more ’owlish’ than ’vulture’ as his wise arguments and knowledge of his craft won the contentious quarrel over depicting a scab almost as the centre-piece of the drama.
	www.labournet.de /internationales/FILM.HTM (2988 words)

	Cracker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jimmy McGovern made Cracker, and he was the only person who could ever write Fitz WELL.
		McGovern should have written the final story, and more of an effort should have been made to persuade him to do so.
		It's a good thing McGovern and Coltrane decided to call it a day when they did, because with Jimmy Becks suicide 'Cracker' lost some of its anger and edge, and there was a danger that the romantic triangle of Fitz, his wife and Penhaligan would turn it into a soap.
	www.jumptheshark.com /c/cracker.htm (2250 words)

	Cracker of a yarn - TV & Radio - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		Jimmy McGovern (Cracker, The Lakes) is in Sydney working on a project with fellow writer Mac Gudgeon (Waterfront, The Petrov Affair) that will examine the early years of European settlement in Australia.
		McGovern and Gudgeon are writing the script with Catriona McKenzie and indigenous historical consultant Allen Madden.
		McGovern, meanwhile, has also been working on a new Cracker telemovie, Nine Eleven, which will air in Britain in September.
	www.smh.com.au /news/tv--radio/cracker-of-a-yarn/2006/04/22/1145344318176.html (371 words)

	LOVEFiLM \| Europe's No.1 online DVD rental service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A dramatised account of the history of the Liverpool Dockers dispute put together by the sacked dockers themselves and their partners whilst attending WEA classes.
		Assistance was given by Jimmy McGovern and Irvine Welsh.
		The second series of Jimmy McGovern's dark and controversial drama of rural community life.
	www.lovefilm.com /director.php?dr_id=3938 (104 words)

	MovieFreak.com - "Cracker - Series 3" DVD Review by Dennis Landmann
		Show creator Jimmy McGovern and writer Paul Abbot craft intricate stories and plots throughout the entire third series run of the show.
		The three-part Brotherly Love is written by McGovern and follows the events after the murder of a prostitute.
		Interviews with Jimmy McGovern and the cast, especially Robbie Coltrane, would've been excellent.
	www.moviefreak.com /dvd/c/cracker3.htm (1068 words)

	GregsOpinion.com: Comment on NuDonk's Lessons Learned (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Hard hats and blue collar workers in large numbers, however, were not willing to suppport the likes of George McGovern, Jimmy Carter in 1980 (when it became clear that he was not the pro-Defense moderate that he claimed to be in 1976), Walter Mondale, and Michael Dukakis.
		George McGovern was the revenge of the ghost of Henry Wallace, the appeaser.
		Yet, McGovern defeated Humphrey, Muskie and Jackson in 1972 and the New Left (the post-Vietnam Liberals) began to dictate the Party's national security philosophy and converted the counter-culture of the late 1960 into mainstream values within the Democratic Party.
	www.gregsopinion.com /mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=5409 (1150 words)

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