The Metropolitan Production House with a Caledonian Twist Shed Media at the Vanguard of Push for More Scottish-Produced Network Programming Shed Media at the Vanguard of Push for More Scottish- Produced Network Programming Television: Interview

Sunday Herald › October 06, 2008

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IT is appropriate, if slightly mortifying, that my first face-to- face chat with Shed Media head Eileen Gallagher takes place in what I'd thought were the men's toilets of frappeand-frippery merchants Fifi and Ally.

Unisex toilets may discomfort this reporter, but it is this kind of metrosexual flourish that Gallagher - the Hamilton-born television producer behind Footballers' Wives, Waterloo Road and Bad Girls - would now like to capture on the small screen.

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The Metropolitan Production House with a Caledonian Twist Shed Media at the Vanguard of Push for More Scottish-Produced Network Programming Shed Media at the Vanguard of Push for More Scottish- Produced Network Programming Television: Interview

The 48-year-old chief executive of the production company says her "big ambition" is to produce a "contemporary drama about 30- somethings in Glasgow, showing the side of Scotland that people from outside the country never get to see".

"Stories from Scotland usually feature people either shooting grouse or shooting up but I want to show Glasgow and Edinburgh in all their glory...

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