PHIL COLLINSON

'Phil Collinson' is a British television producer. He was initially an actor, before switching to working behind the cameras in the industry as a script editor and writer on programmes such as ''Springhill'' and ''Emmerdale'', later becoming the producer of ''Peak Practice''.
He has produced several series for the BBC, including the comedy drama ''Linda Green'', and the first seasons of 1950s-set ''Born and Bred'' and paranormal thriller ''Sea of Souls''. In January 2004, he started work as the tenth full-time in-house producer of the BBC science-fiction programme ''Doctor Who''.
While he was an actor, the role of Alexander in the 1999 Channel 4 drama ''Queer as Folk'' was written especially for him by his friend Russell T. Davies. However, after Antony Cotton auditioned for the production team, Davies and his fellow producers felt they had no choice but to offer the role to him.
Collinson took a vacation from his ''Doctor Who'' production responsibilities for at least part of the 2007 series; Susie Liggat took his place for a month according to issue 372 of ''Doctor Who Magazine'', while Collinson took a holiday. ^[1] There was some confusion when Collinson's break was first announced, with some reports claiming that Collinson was leaving the series. "There was this whole madness last year when it was announced that... Susie was going to produce a couple of episodes," Collinson told ''DWM'' in issue 380, "cos everyone immediately thought that I was leaving, and she was taking over. My friends thought I was seriously ill! Why else would I leave ''Doctor Who''?" ^[2] Collinson's holiday coincided with the filming of the episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood", he does however receive an executive producer credit for these episodes.
Collinson also serves as Executive Producer on the CBBC ''Doctor Who'' spin-off ''The Sarah Jane Adventures''.^[3]
He also provided audio commentaries on ''Doctor Who'' — The Complete First Series Boxset DVD release, on the episodes "Rose", "The End of the World", "World War Three" and "Bad Wolf". More recently, he has recorded the audio commentary for Daleks in Manhattan with its director James Strong. A Dalek fan, Collinson told Strong that he thought the Daleks were so iconic that they should return in each new series.
Collinson is openly gay, and admits that ''Doctor Who'' has a special appeal for LGBT people: "I can only talk for myself, and when I was a teenager," he said in a March 2007 interview. "For me, as a young boy and a teenager, growing up in the north of England, in a world where I could never imagine being a gay man, let alone settling down and finding someone, I think ''Doctor Who'' was really asexual. There were programmes like ''The Sweeney'' which were very much about men chasing women, men getting women, whereas with ''Doctor Who'' you had a show that never really dealt with that." ^[4]
On 24th June 2007, the Daily Star on Sunday reported Collinson would be the next producer of much loved ITV1 soap Coronation Street, and that his arrival would herald a massive cast cull.

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