Writer
Jillian Mannion is an award-winning screenwriter from Scotland. She’s a main writer and story consultant for BBC Scotland’s continuing drama River City and has written for Casualty and Death in Paradise as well as being a lead writer for Netflix docu-drama Blood, Sex and Royalty. She has written the second episode of series 2 of Granite Harbour for BBC / LA Productions.
In February 2022, Jillian was awarded the Best Long Running Series Award from WGGB for an episode of River City. She was a mentee on WFTV’s 4 Nations mentoring scheme in 2021 where she won awards for Best Presentation and Best Short Film. Jillian’s first feature film script, Random Acts of Romance, was nominated for Best Dramatic Screenplay at the LEO Awards. She has started directing and producing her own short films and is a guest trainer for Pocket Stories who teach smartphone filmmaking.
Core writer; Episodes 49-50
Wrote 1×60′ episode for second season of drama series; available on iPlayer
Original feature screenplay in development
Lead writer on 3 episodes for a major docudrama
Television Film
Episode 7 of Series 11 of this British-French crime drama television series, broadcast on 8th February 2022
Series 24, Episodes 5, 6, 51, 52, 57 and 58
Series 23, Episodes 7 and 27
Series 22, Episodes 13, 20, 25, 26, 46 and 58
Series 21, Episodes 1, 20, 28, 36 and 49
Series 20, Episodes 3 and 28
Winner of the WGGB Award 2022 for Best Long Running TV Series for Episode 28 of Series 21
Wrote on Series 34, 2 episodes. First episode broadcast 11th January 2020.
Wrote “Life Begins at 40.”
Feature Film
Director: Katrin Bowen
Nominated for Best Screenplay at the LEO Awards
Short Film
Producer: Dylan Drummond
Short Film
Director: Jim Norman
Winner of Best Long Running Series at WGGB Awards 2022 for River City
Winner of Best Presentation (How to Write for Continuing Drama and Best Short Film on Young Offender) on WFTV’s Mentoring Scheme
Winner of Best Writer at 48 Hour Film Project for The Handover
Winner of Donald Dewar Arts Award for Creative Writing
Nominated for Audience Award at the Scottish BAFTAs 2020 for River City
Nominated for Best Screenplay at the LEO Awards for Random Acts of Romance
Quarter-finalist of Hollywood’s Page Screenwriting Awards for Chances Are
Awards in Academics, Professionalism and Script Analysis at Vancouver Film School
Reading Panel for WFTV Kay Mellor Screenwriters Lab 2023
WGGB Awards Sitcom Jury
2022
WFTV 4 Nations Mentoring Scheme
2021
River City Story Conferences
2017 – Present
BBC Scotland Writers Room Residential
June 2017
Freelance Script Editor and Script Reader
2007-Present
Fiction Journalist D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd (Publishers) Sep 2008-2014
BBC Script Secretary “River City”
2007-2008
| Current | ||
|---|---|---|
| Production | Company | Notes |
| River City S25 | BBC Studios | Core writer; Episodes 49-50 |
| Granite Harbour S2 | LA Productions/BBC | Wrote 1×60′ episode for second season of drama series; available on iPlayer |
| Wave of Light | Solstice Pictures | Original feature screenplay in development |
| Television | ||
|---|---|---|
| Production | Company | Notes |
| Blood, Sex & Royalty (2022-2023) | Nutopia/Netflix | Lead writer on 3 episodes for a major docudrama |
| J'adore New York (2022-2023) | ReelOne Entertainment | Television Film |
| Death in Paradise S11 (2021) | Red Planet/BBC | Episode 7 of Series 11 of this British-French crime drama television series, broadcast on 8th February 2022 |
| River City | BBC Studios | Series 24, Episodes 5, 6, 51, 52, 57 and 58 Winner of the WGGB Award 2022 for Best Long Running TV Series for Episode 28 of Series 21 |
| Casualty (2019-2020) | BBC Studios | Wrote on Series 34, 2 episodes. First episode broadcast 11th January 2020. |
| The Range (2007) | Deauberdadi Productions | Wrote “Life Begins at 40.” |
| Film | ||
|---|---|---|
| Production | Company | Notes |
| Random Acts Of Romance (2012) | Purple Productions | Feature Film |
| Troublemaker Court (2008) | Short Film Producer: Dylan Drummond |
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| First Debt (2006) | Short Film Director: Jim Norman |
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| Documentary | ||
|---|---|---|
| Production | Company | Notes |
| Tea People (2014) | Flyboy Creative | |
| Awards & Nominations | ||
|---|---|---|
Winner of Best Long Running Series at WGGB Awards 2022 for River City Winner of Best Presentation (How to Write for Continuing Drama and Best Short Film on Young Offender) on WFTV’s Mentoring Scheme Winner of Best Writer at 48 Hour Film Project for The Handover Winner of Donald Dewar Arts Award for Creative Writing Nominated for Audience Award at the Scottish BAFTAs 2020 for River City Nominated for Best Screenplay at the LEO Awards for Random Acts of Romance Quarter-finalist of Hollywood’s Page Screenwriting Awards for Chances Are Awards in Academics, Professionalism and Script Analysis at Vancouver Film School |
| Other | ||
|---|---|---|
Reading Panel for WFTV Kay Mellor Screenwriters Lab 2023 WGGB Awards Sitcom Jury WFTV 4 Nations Mentoring Scheme River City Story Conferences BBC Scotland Writers Room Residential Freelance Script Editor and Script Reader Fiction Journalist D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd (Publishers) Sep 2008-2014 BBC Script Secretary “River City” |