Mal Young
| Mal Young | |
|---|---|
| Born |
26 January 1957 (age 60) Liverpool, England, UK |
| Occupation | TV Producer |
| Years active | 1984-present |
| Spouse(s) | Mari Wilson (2002-) |
Mal Young (born 26 January 1957) is a British television producer, script writer and executive producer.
His initial career was in the graphic design industry.
At age 27 he began working in television, on the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside. Over nearly a decade, he worked his way up to become the show's producer in the early 1990s. His tenure was criticised for taking the show away from its social realist roots towards a more sensationalist, ratings-chasing format. He achieved record ratings for the series and for Channel 4. He also co-created and produced his own successful drama series for Channel 4, And The Beat Goes On.
He then moved on to become head of drama at the independent production company Pearson Television, where he oversaw work on ITV police drama The Bill and another soap opera, Channel 5's Family Affairs, which he created, and was executive producer on C5's legal drama series, the BAFTA-nominated Wing And A Prayer.
From 1997-2004, he moved to the BBC to become the Controller of Continuing Drama Series for the Corporation's in-house production arm. In this role, he was responsible for overseeing the organisation's in-house continuing episodic drama series. Programmes he oversaw for the BBC included the soap opera EastEnders; medical dramas Doctors (which he co-created), Casualty, and the latter's spin-off series Holby City, which he created; police dramas Dalziel and Pascoe, Waking the Dead, and Merseybeat; anthology shows The Afternoon Play and Murder in Mind; legal drama Judge John Deed; rural-set Down to Earth; comedy-drama Being April; and science-fiction series Doctor Who.
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