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Sarah-Louise Hawkins
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Sarah-Louise is a highly experienced British screenwriter, specialising in crime shows that find a large popular worldwide audience. Her most recent work includes "The Hardacres" (C5), “Whitstable Pearl” (UK Drama/Acorn TV), “Miss Scarlet and the Duke” (Masterpiece PBS/Alibi), “The Mallorca Files”(Amazon Prime/BBC), “London Kills” (BBC/Acorn TV) and “Father Brown” (BBC).
Past credits have included episodes of acclaimed series such as “Playing The Field” (BBC), “Always & Everyone”(ITV), “Suspects” (Channel 5) and an original two parter “In the Name of Love”, also for ITV, amongst many others.
Sarah-Louise’s first experience in episodic crime writing came after being commissioned on long-running British prime-time police procedural “The Bill”. She went on to become a core writer on the show, during which time it won a BAFTA, and the Writer's Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Continuing Drama. She once also took a break from crime drama to work on a show her young son could watch - becoming a returning writer on CBBC’s “The Dumping Ground” over three series and picking up the British Screenwriting Award for Best Children’s Drama along the way.
Sarah is currently co-creator on a new crime drama for Cosmopolitan Pictures/Cineflix.
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