Darren Fairhurst and Steve Hughes are television drama writers, creators and producers with over 80 hours broadcast credits between them for ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. Together, they created – along with Paul Marquess – the drama series ‘Crime Stories’ for ITV daytime, which ran for 20 episodes; and also the flagship 60’ police-drama series ‘Suspects’ starring Fay Ripley, which ran for five seasons on Channel 5. They both now currently write for ‘Hollyoaks’ and separately, Darren has written for shows such as ‘Shameless,’ ‘The Royal Today,’ and Steve for shows such as ‘The Bill,’ and ‘Emmerdale.’ Both have also worked extensively in the story department at ‘Coronation Street’ and Steve on the producing team on ‘Hollyoaks.’ Darren and Steve now currently have a number of co-written original drama series projects in active development.
| Television Writing Credits as Co-Creators | |
|---|---|
| Suspects | Newman Street/ Channel 5 Co-creators and writers of the flagship prime-time Channel 5 crime drama series (2013 – 2018) First season of 5 x 60 minute episodes commissioned Second series of 5 x 60 minute commissioned Third series of 4 x 60 minute episodes commissioned Fourth series of 4 x 60 minute episodes commissioned Fifth series of 6 x 60 minute episodes commissioned |
| Crime Stories | Newman Street/ ITV Co-creators and writers of the daytime ITV crime drama (2012) 20 x 60 minute episodes |
| The Outskirts | Lime Pictures Original drama series (In development) |
| Steve Hughes Producer credits | |
|---|---|
| Hollyoaks | Producer for the Channel 4 teen-drama (December 2015 – present) |
| Darren Fairhurst Writing Credits | |
|---|---|
| Hollyoaks | Lime Pictures/Channel 4 Episodes for the popular Channel 4 teen soap (2002-2006, 2010, 2014-2021) 60 x 30 minute episodes |
| Shameless | Company Pictures/Channel 4 Writer on two series of the popular 60-minute drama (2010-12) 3 x 60 minute episodes |
| The Royal Today | ITV Productions/ ITV Nine episodes of the series spin off series from ‘The Royal’ (2008) 10 x 30 minute episodes |
| Hollyoaks: No Going Back | Lime Pictures/Channel 4 Late night version of the soap (2005) 1 x 60 minute episode |
| Coronation Street | ITV Story Associate on the long-running soap (1999-2001) |
| Thunder Bay | ITV Drama Story-liner (2000) |
| Steve Hughes Writing Credits | |
|---|---|
| Hollyoaks | Lime Pictures/Channel 4 Core writer and Producer on the popular Channel 4 teen soap (2010 – present) |
| Hollyoaks Later | Lime Pictures/E4 Episodes for the 60-min spin off series (2010) 2 x 60 minute episodes |
| River City | BBC Scotland Writer for the Scottish soap (2011-2013) 10 x 60 minute episodes |
| Hollyoaks | Lime Pictures/Channel 4 Story Editor on the popular Channel 4 teen soap (2010, 2014) |
| Emmerdale | ITV Studios Writer for the ITV prime-time soap (2005-2009) Over 20+ episodes commissioned |
| Family Affairs | Fremantle/Thames TV/Channel 5 Writer for the Channel 5 soap opera (2003-2005) 50 x 30 minute episodes |
| The Bill | Talkback Thames /ITV Episodes for the police procedural drama (2001-2003) 10 x 60 minute episodes |
| Coronation Street | ITV Story Associate on the long-running soap (1998-2000) |
| Brookside | Mersey Television / Channel 4 Script-editor (1998) |