Ninety Eight Percent
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Ninety Eight Percent is a controversial new series drama from Scotland, currently in production by Bad Pony Media
.
Written by Michelle Martin
and directed/produced by Bafta nominated Frank McGowan
the series is set to be aired in 2011 exclusively via the soon-to-launch Bad Pony TV.
The production schedule is intended for March - June 2011.
The series features many LGBT characters, and storylines usually avoided by more typical tele-visual drama.
and Channel 4
].
Intended as a taster and aiming to showcase the characters the action packed feature length pilot for the series opens amongst the drugs and dirt and devious activities of the city's criminal underworld - where we meet sociopath lesbian drug dealer Casey Spencer (played by Emma Ashby).
She is joined by a sterling cast, Hannah Tiffin, Anne Marie Feeney, Vivien Taylor, Fraser Murray, Robert Radcliffe and Alex McPhail.
Bad Pony Media
Bad Pony Media Ltd/Bad Pony Television is a Scotland based independent Production Company based in the G1 area of Glasgow.The company, headed by Executive Producer's Michelle Martin and Frank McGowan specialise in their own creative content for broadcast television and online.Projects currently in...
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Written by Michelle Martin
Michelle Martin
Michelle Martin is a former professional squash player from Australia who was one of the game's leading players in the 1990s. During her career, she won three World Open titles and six British Open titles...
and directed/produced by Bafta nominated Frank McGowan
Frank McGowan
Francis Mark Courtney McGowan , is an independent Scottish film-maker/producer/director, media personality and musician from Glasgow, Scotland, UK....
the series is set to be aired in 2011 exclusively via the soon-to-launch Bad Pony TV.
The production schedule is intended for March - June 2011.
The series features many LGBT characters, and storylines usually avoided by more typical tele-visual drama.
Pilot
An unaired pilot episode for the series was produced in 2008, and premièred to a press/industry only audience in 2009. Reactions to the pilot were positive and the project was discussed for potential full series with both BBCBBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
and Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
].
Intended as a taster and aiming to showcase the characters the action packed feature length pilot for the series opens amongst the drugs and dirt and devious activities of the city's criminal underworld - where we meet sociopath lesbian drug dealer Casey Spencer (played by Emma Ashby).
She is joined by a sterling cast, Hannah Tiffin, Anne Marie Feeney, Vivien Taylor, Fraser Murray, Robert Radcliffe and Alex McPhail.
External links
- Ninety Eight Percent Official website
- Ninety Eight Percent article in Roughcuts magazine April/May 2008.
- Bad Pony Productions official website.
- Ninety Eight Percent on Myspace.com
- Interview with film-maker Frank McGowan in The Herald.