Diederick santer biography of william shakespeare

Diederick Santer is a producer for BBC Drama Series & Serials, where he produced the first three series of the hit hairdressing drama Cutting It.

He has also worked as a script editor for Granada and for United Productions, where we worked on ITV series including The Last Train, Always and Everyone and the first two series of Where The Heart Is.

Here he describes the process of producing the BBC ONE updating of Much Ado About Nothing.

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The script - part two

As soon as David said, "how about we have Beatrice and Benedick as the bickering co-anchors of a local TV news show?", Kate and I knew it could work.

In Shakespeare's original, Beatrice and Benedick claim to hate one another. They argue and spar, driving each other to distraction. Of course, their friends know that the reason these characters wind each other up so much is that they are totally in love with