Awards & Winners

Michael Wearing

Date of Birth 1939
Place of Birth United Kingdom
(Eurasia, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories, Western Europe, Europe, Littlehampton Lifeboat Station)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as The Edge
Profession Theatre Director, Theatrical producer, Film Producer, Script editor, Television Producer
Michael Wearing is a British television producer, who has spent much of his career working on various drama productions for the BBC. He is best known as the producer of the highly-acclaimed serials Boys from the Blackstuff and Edge of Darkness, which created for him a reputation as one of British television's foremost producers of high-quality, award-winning drama. His initial career was in the theatre, where he worked as a director, before in 1976 he joined the BBC's English Regions Drama Department as a Script Editor under producer David Rose. The department, based at BBC Birmingham, had been set up as an attempt to counter the BBC's tradition of producing dramas that were almost exclusively made and set in London and the home counties, and was charged with making 'regional drama' based in all areas of the country. Over the following five years, Wearing worked as both a script editor and producer on various series and plays for the department, with his most successful production there being the Play for Today entry The Black Stuff. Written by Alan Bleasdale, despite languishing on the shelf for two years waiting for a broadcast slot before being shown in 1980, the play was a great success and led to Bleasdale writing and Wearing producing Boys from the Blackstuff, a sequel series showing what happened to the characters involved after the events of the play. This was highly acclaimed and award-winning, and led to Wearing being called down to work at the central BBC drama department in London.

Awards by Michael Wearing

Check all the awards nominated and won by Michael Wearing.

1999


Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries Masterpiece
Great Expectations

1996


Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries Pride and Prejudice

1995


Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries Martin Chuzzlewit

1990


Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama First and Last

1989


Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series or Serial Blind Justice
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series Blind Justice

1986


British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series
Honored for : Edge of Darkness
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series or Serial
Honored for : Edge of Darkness

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series or Serial Edge of Darkness
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series Edge of Darkness

1983


British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series
Honored for : Boys from the Blackstuff
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series or Serial
Honored for : Boys from the Blackstuff

Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series or Serial Boys from the Blackstuff
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series Boys from the Blackstuff

1982


Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series or Serial The History Man
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series The History Man