- Barbara Cox
Barbara Cox is a writer and script editor, mainly in British television, who has worked on such programmes as "
The Bill ", "The Paradise Club", "Cardiac Arrest", "Love Hurts", "Dangerfield" and "Holby City ".In 1993/4 Cox collaborated with playwright Terry Johnson to create the thriller series "99-1" (Zenith Productions/ITV), which starred
Leslie Grantham andSir Robert Stephens . "99-1" did well in its first season with ratings of 12 million, but was eclipsed in its second year when the BBC scheduled "The X Files " against it; a projected third series was not commissioned. Cox went on to edit the more mainstream and solidly successful "Wycliffe".More recently she has also been involved in children's programmes including "I Was a Rat!", "Bootleg" and the multi-award-winning adaptation of
Malorie Blackman 's novel "Pig-Heart Boy".In 2005, Barbara Cox won a British Academy Children's Film and Television Award for Writer, Best Adapted Script, for the children's drama Wipe Out based on a book by Mimi Thebo.
External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0184918/ Barbara Cox on The Internet Movie Database]
* [http://www.bafta.org.uk BAFTA homepage]
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