Jonathan Harvey comes from Liverpool and is the multi award winning writer of the play and film Beautiful Thing the Bafta nominated sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme and Beautiful People (Best Comedy: Banff TV Festival). He was on the writing teams for both Coronation Street and Shameless. His other TV work includes Rev (Bafta Best Sitcom) At Home With The Braithwaites Lilies The Catherine Tate Show and Murder Most Horrid. He has written twenty stage plays including Corrie Canary Hushabye Mountain Babies Boom Bang A Bang and Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club. He also wrote the 2001 stage musical Closer To Heaven with the Pet Shop Boys. His theatre work has won him an Evening Standard Award two Manchester Evening News Awards the George Devine Award and the John Whiting Award. But perhaps most telling of all he also won the Spacehopper Championships at Butlins Pwhelli in 1976. Language: English