Susan Nickson is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 television screenwriter

Screenwriter

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. She is the creator and writer of BBC

BBC

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 sitcoms Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps was a BBC sitcom created and written by Susan Nickson. It is set in the town of Runcorn in Cheshire, England, and initially revolves around the lives of five twenty-somethings, played by Ralf Little , Sheridan Smith , Will Mellor , Natalie Casey and...

(2001–2011) and Grownups (2006–2009). She created Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps when she was attending The Grange Comprehensive School.

Nickson won the Lloyds Bank

Lloyds Bank

Lloyds Bank Plc was a British retail bank which operated in England and Wales from 1765 until its merger into Lloyds TSB in 1995; it remains a registered company but is currently dormant. It expanded during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and took over a number of smaller banking companies...

 Film Challenge at the age of fourteen with a ten-minute short called Buddha's Legs. She then wrote a half hour comedy for Channel 4

Channel 4

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 called Life's A Bitch, starring Kathy Burke

Kathy Burke

Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke is an English actress, comedienne, playwright and theatre director. She is best known for her portrayals of Perry in the Harry Enfield film Kevin and Perry Go Large, and of Linda La Hughes in the British sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme...

 and Sean Hughes

Sean Hughes (comedian)

Sean Hughes is a British-Irish stand-up comedian, writer and actor.-Career:Hughes was born in London, but spent most of his youth in Firhouse, Dublin...

. Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps was Nickson's first BBC commission and has run for ten years. In April 2010 it was announced that Two Pints was to be refreshed and that Nickson is leaving the production to focus on a number of new solo and collaborative projects in both the UK and America.

Nickson has worked in various roles in the television industry; in addition to writing and creating her own series, she has also worked as a producer

Television producer

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 and script editor

Script editor

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External links

• Susan Nickson at the Internet Movie Database
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