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Ninety Eight Percent
Ninety Eight Percent title screen.Format Drama Created by Michelle Martin Starring Hannah Tiffin, Fraser Murray, AnneMarie Feeney, Alex McPhail, Kev Jamieson, Vivien Louise Taylor, Robert Radcliffe, Mary Waters, Anna Devitt, John Stuart, Jim McLeavy, Cat Joss, Robert O Donnell. Country of origin United Kingdom Production Producer(s) Maureen Somerville, Frank McGowan, Cheryl Howarth, Michelle Martin Running time 62 minutes Broadcast Original channel TBA Ninety Eight Percent is a controversial new series drama from Scotland, currently in production by Bad Pony Media.
Written by Michelle Martin and directed/produced by Bafta nominated Frank McGowan the series is set to be aired in 2011 exclusively via the soon-to-launch Bad Pony TV.
The production schedule is intended for March - June 2011.
The series features many LGBT characters, and storylines usually avoided by more typical tele-visual drama.
Pilot
An unaired pilot episode for the series was produced in 2008, and premièred to a press/industry only audience in 2009. Reactions to the pilot were positive and the project was discussed for potential full series with both BBC and Channel 4].
Intended as a taster and aiming to showcase the characters the action packed feature length pilot for the series opens amongst the drugs and dirt and devious activities of the city's criminal underworld - where we meet sociopath lesbian drug dealer Casey Spencer (played by Emma Ashby).
She is joined by a sterling cast, Hannah Tiffin, Anne Marie Feeney, Vivien Taylor, Fraser Murray, Robert Radcliffe and Alex McPhail.
External links
- Ninety Eight Percent Official website
- Ninety Eight Percent article in Roughcuts magazine April/May 2008.
- Bad Pony Productions official website.
- Ninety Eight Percent on Myspace.com
- Interview with film-maker Frank McGowan in The Herald.
- Ninety Eight Percent at the Internet Movie Database
Categories:- Television drama
- 2008 British television programme debuts
- Television shows set in Glasgow
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