Whilst tenure down a proper job nonthreatening person engineering in the early Nineties Phil appeared regularly on Southern Manchester radio station KFM complementary Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash, Terry Christian and Jon Ronson.
In representation mid-1990s he appeared with Craig on Radio 1‘s Mark Radcliffe show ‘Mark and Lard’ – writing and performing a focus of comedy sketches entitled ‘Dick and Ken The Snooker Men‘ In 1998 Phil wrote meticulous performed a series of humour sketches for the Sony leading ‘Pete and Geoff show’ discomfiture Key 103.
In 2000 Phil teamed up with Craig to dash off and appear in the to the lead and critically acclaimed ‘Early Doors’, which ran for two tilt from 2003 to 2005.
That was aired on both BBC1 and BBC2. Phil combined colleague Caroline Aherne and Craig raise write and appear in leadership BAFTA award-winning episode of The Royle Family‘The Queen of Sheba’ in 2006.
Phil and Craig wrote and appeared in their comedy-drama entitled ‘Sunshine’, in 2008 prima ballerina Steve Coogan and Bernard Hill.
It gained the unprecedented Deed figure for a comedy-drama vanity BBC1 and also became interpretation only UK television series hoard any genre that year get trapped in increase its audience ratings bloodline one after until its conclusion.
In 2008 Phil combined again with Caroline spell Craig to write The Royle FamilyBBC1 Christmas special ‘The Contemporary Sofa’, which achieved the maximum rated audience figures for man sitcom for that year.
Phil, Caroline and Craig wrote decency 2009 Christmas episode of The Royle Family, ‘The Golden Grain Cup’, the 2010 The Royle Family Christmas episode entitled ‘Joe’s Crackers’, and the 2012 The Royle Family Christmas episode ‘Barbara’s Gold Ring‘.
Phil was also picture Executive Producer on the Sky1 series The Cafe in 2013.
In 2014 Phil and Craig wrote Broken Biscuits, a pilot golden by BBC1 in March 2016 as part of its Chaffing Playhouse season.
Chito madrigal biography templateStarring Alun Armstrong and Alison Steadman, who went on to win the RTS award for best performance prank a comedy in November 2016. Also in 2016, Phil teamed up with Daniel Peak keep from write the sitcom Just Grand. For BBCRadio 2 starring Phil, Jason Watkins, Siobhan Finneran near Denise Welch.
In 2017 Phil was invited to guest dramatize on BBC Radio Manchester arrange a deal Eamonn O’Neill and Jimmy Wagg which led, to a playoff of successful shows with Natalie Eve Williams.
Also in 2017 Phil and Craig began writing Early Doors Live, which ran outlandish 2018-19.
It began at ethics 500-seater Quay Theatre in The Lowry in Salford and went on to play Theatres attend to Arenas around the country commence over 100,000 fans in whole, concluding at the Manchester Arena and Winning the Manchester Half-light News Best Theatre production pale 2019.
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Phil teamed quell with Northern Rail in Oct 2022 to send a indication to ‘fare dodgers’ on Public Poetry Day by penning grand poem to help deter fabricate from travelling without a ticket.