The BBC has announced new drama The Cage, written and created by BAFTA nominated Tony Schumacher (The Responder) and starring BAFTA award-winner Sheridan Smith (Cilla, The C Word, Mrs Biggs). Produced by Element Pictures, a Fremantle Company (The Listeners, Normal People), for BBC iPlayer and BBC One, The Cage is described ... Read More...
Tony Schumacher
Liverpool's longest-running writing festival, WoWFEST, returns in May with a line-up of famous names. WoWFEST: FUTURE IMPERFECT will take place online and in venues across the city, featuring such headliners as award-winning journalist Gary Younge (pictured), poet Hannah Lowe, The Responder creator Tony Schumacher, authors Ashleigh Nugent and Danielle Owen-Jones, and ... Read More...
A new BBC drama series starring Martin Freeman has begun filming in and around the Liverpool City Region. Written by Liverpool-born ex-policeman Tony Schumacher, The Responder is his first original series for television. It features Martin Freeman (The Hobbit; Sherlock; Breeders; Fargo) in character as Chris, a crisis-stricken, morally compromised, unconventional urgent ... Read More...