Kathleen Beedles is a British producer, who has worked on a total of over 2500 episodes of various British soap operas to date. She grew up in Rogart and now resides in London.

British soaps

From 1999 to 2001, Beedles worked as a story associate on ''

Coronation Street ''Coronation Street'' (colloquially referred to as ''Corrie'') is a British television soap opera created by ITV Granada, Granada Television and shown on ITV (TV network), ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres on a cobbled, terraced ...

'' before moving onto "

Emmerdale ''Emmerdale'' (known as ''Emmerdale Farm'' until 1989) is a British television soap opera that is broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV. The show is set in Emmerdale (known as Beckindale until 1994), a List of fictional towns and villages, fict ...

" as Story Editor. In 2005, Beedles was appointed Series Producer of

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'', taking over from Steve Frost. She had worked as a producer and series editor for the ITV soap before taking on the role. During her time on the soap, she was responsible for many major storylines, including the Kings River showhome explosion storyline, and the Tom King kidnap plot. She was also responsible for the Who Killed Tom King? storyline, which was nominated for Best Storyline at the 2007 British Soap Awards. Under her tenure Emmerdale was nominated for a BAFTA for three consecutive years, won an RTS Award and the Broadcast Digital Award for the Who Killed Tom King online channel. In January 2008, it was announced that Beedles was stepping down from her role. She was succeeded by Anita Turner. Her final episode of ''Emmerdale'' aired on 29 February 2008. After Emmerdale, Beedles produced the ITV drama '' Heartbeat'' and was a story consultant on "

River City ''River City'' is a Scottish television soap opera created by Stephen Greenhorn which has been broadcast on BBC One Scotland since September 2002. Since 2019, the show has aired episodes a day earlier on the new BBC Scotland channel. Set in ...

" for the BBC. From December 2010, Beedles worked as the Series Story Producer on the BBC soap opera ''

EastEnders ''EastEnders'' is a British television soap opera created by Julia Smith (producer), Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since February 1985. Set in the fictional borough of Walford in the East End of London, the ...

''. Her first storylines transmitted in March 2011. In March 2012, she decided to step down from her role to join "

Hollyoaks ''Hollyoaks'' is a British soap opera which originally began airing on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was created by Phil Redmond, who had previously conceived the soap opera ''Brookside (TV series), Brookside''. From 2005 to 2023, episodes h ...

" as a story consultant, being credited on both shows for the period June to August 2012. Beedles is now a Drama Development Exec for Lime Pictures.

''Tanglin''

Kathleen was Supervising Producer and Head Writer on MediaCorp's first English language multi racial soap/longform/daily drama '' Tanglin''. Kathleen was part of the team who created and set up the show. It started airing 30 June 2015 and ran for 823 episodes, the longest running television show in Singapore. Kathleen is now Supervising Producer on the drama series '' Kin'' which followed. It has just reached its 500th episode and is hugely popular, surpassing ''Tanglin''.

References

*http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/education/Highland-Council.4007500.jp

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Beedles, Kathleen Living people Year of birth missing (living people) British soap opera producers British women television producers