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| Born | 1979 (age 44–45) Runcorn, Cheshire, England |
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| Years active | 1994–present |
Susan Nickson (born 1979) is an English screenwriter and executive producer.
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Susan Nickson | |
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| Born | 1979 (age 44–45) Runcorn, Cheshire, England |
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| Years active | 1994–present |
Susan Nickson (born 1979) is an English screenwriter and executive producer.
Nickson was raised in Runcorn, Cheshire, where she attended The Grange School.
Nickson began her career aged 14 when she won the Lloyds Bank Film Challenge with a ten-minute short film called Buddah's Legs. In 1995, her half-hour satirical comedy Life's a Bitch, starring Sean Hughes and Kathy Burke, aired on Channel 4. [1]
Her first original sitcom, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps , ran for ten years, across nine series, with Nickson writing the majority of the episodes. [2] The series enjoyed enormous popular success, [3] helping to launch the careers of its stars Sheridan Smith, Ralf Little and Will Mellor. [4] It can still regularly be seen on BBC Three, and is currently available on BBC iPlayer. [5]
Nickson also created the BBC Three sitcom Grownups , script-edited Coming of Age , and contributed episodes to series 11 and 12 of Birds of a Feather . [6]
In 2022, her latest original series, Rosie Molloy Gives Up Everything, premiered on Sky Comedy. [7]
Nickson is a patron of Cheshire Autism Practical Support (ChAPS), which helps families navigating autism, having grown up with an autistic brother. [8]
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps is a British television sitcom that ran from 26 February 2001 to 24 May 2011. First broadcast on BBC Two, it starred Sheridan Smith, Will Mellor, Natalie Casey, Ralf Little, Kathryn Drysdale, Beverley Callard and, later on in series 7, Luke Gell. The show was created and written by Susan Nickson and set in her hometown of Runcorn, Cheshire, it originally revolved around the lives of five twentysomethings. Little departed after the sixth series, and Smith and Drysdale left after the eighth series. The ninth and final series had major changes with new main cast members and new writers.
Kathryn Drysdale is an English actress. She gained prominence through her roles in the BBC sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (2001–2009) and the films Vanity Fair (2004) and St Trinian's (2007). Her other work includes the drama Tripping Over (2006), the fourth series of Benidorm (2011) on ITV, the Channel 4 parody The Windsors (2018–2020), and the Netflix period drama Bridgerton (2020–).
William Mellor is an English actor and singer. He is known for his roles as Jambo Bolton in Hollyoaks, Gaz Wilkinson in Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Warren Stamp in EastEnders, DC Spike Tanner in No Offence, Steve Connolly in Broadchurch, Georgie in Barking! and Ollie Curry in White Van Man. He appeared in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street as Harvey Gaskell. In 2024, he appeared as sub-postmaster Lee Castleton in the ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office, about the British Post Office scandal.
Beverley Jane McEwan is an English actress, known for her role as Liz McDonald in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street and Flo Henshaw in Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.
Ralf Alastair John Little is an English actor, writer, presenter, narrator and former semi-professional footballer. He has worked mainly in television comedy, including playing Antony Royle in The Royle Family and Jonny Keogh in the first six series of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (2001–2006). He was the narrator of Channel 5's documentary series Our Yorkshire Farm (2018–2022) as well as the spin-offs, Beyond The Yorkshire Farm: Reuben and Clive and Reuben: Life in the Dales. From 2020 to 2024, he starred as Detective Inspector Neville Parker in Death in Paradise.
Natalie Casey is a British actress, presenter, narrator and singer. She portrayed Carol Groves in the television show Hollyoaks (1996–2000) and Donna Henshaw in Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (2001–2011).
Grownups is a BBC Three sitcom written by Susan Nickson, who also created hit BBC Three sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. It follows the trials and tribulations of a group of twentysomething friends in Manchester, facing the decision to either carry on partying or settle down.
Lee Oakes is an English actor best known for his role as Munch Wilkinson in the British comedy Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps and as Kev in the British television series After You've Gone, a friend and fellow builder of Jimmy Venables.
Paul William Mayhew-Archer MBE is a British writer, producer, script editor and actor for the BBC. He is best known as the co-writer of The Vicar of Dibley and Esio Trot alongside Richard Curtis. His solo writing career includes My Hero and Office Gossip, which he created. He was the script editor for Old Harry's Game, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Grownups, Home Again, Coming of Age and Big Top.
Coming of Age is a British sitcom, written by Tim Dawson, produced in house by BBC Productions, and broadcast on the former channel BBC Three. The show takes a direct look at five sixth form students, Jas, Ollie, Matt, Chloe and DK, as well as, from series three, new character Robyn Crisp, who are living in Abingdon. Their lives rotate around the fictional Wooton College, their bedrooms, and Ollie's garden shed. A pilot originally aired in 2007, followed by the first series in 2008, a second series in 2010, and a third beginning in January 2011. In 2011, the show was cancelled along with other long running BBC Three programmes including Ideal, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Hotter Than My Daughter, and Doctor Who Confidential. The first series was released on DVD on 26 October 2009, however, no further series have been released on DVD.
Alison Mac is a British actress from North East England. She has played Wilf in the short lived BBC Wildlife Drama Series Badger from 1999 to 2000. She is probably best known for her portrayal of Kate in the BBC Three comedy series Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, which she was in for one series in 2004. She was one of the main characters in the short-lived drama Rescue Me, which ran for one series in 2002.
Georgia Henshaw is a Welsh actress best known for her roles on British television. Among her leading roles have been those of Rosie, a member of "The Ace Gang" in Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, and as JJ's love interest, Lara, in Skins. She has also appeared as Cassie Claypole in the BBC Three show Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. From 2011 to 2012, she starred in the BBC One school-based drama series, Waterloo Road, as Madi Diamond.
Luke Martin Gell is an English former actor. He was educated at The Kings School in Nottingham and trained at Central Independent Television's Television Workshop. He has been described as a "young Peter Kay" and is most well known for the role of Tim in the BBC Three sitcom, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps from 2008 to the show's end in 2011.
Martin Delaney is an English actor and filmmaker. He has appeared in films such as Zero Dark Thirty, Judas Ghost, and Amar Akbar & Tony.
Tim Dawson is a British screenwriter, best known for his work on a number of television comedies.
Freddie Hogan is a British actor, who became known to a wider audience in a leading role in the ninth series of the British sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps broadcast by BBC Three. Hogan also appears in a minor role in the second part of the movie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. His theatre performance in Extra Virgin earned him an Off West End Theatre Award nomination for Best Actor. Hogan is filming the new BBC1, 7-part series of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell as Davey.
Thomas Nelstrop is an English actor, comedian, and voiceover artist. He plays Julian in the NBC series Brave New World. In 2007, he played Ben Wainright in the Doctor Who episode "Blink" and Wesley Presley in Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.
Rosie Molloy Gives Up Everything is a comedy drama television series, written and created by English screenwriter Susan Nickson. It stars Sheridan Smith, Ardal O'Hanlon and Pauline McLynn. All six episodes were released on 7 December 2022 on Sky Comedy and Now.
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