[14][15] Part of the responsibilities of that job in the early days was reading scripts that had been accumulating in the basement of the BBC for over 10 years.

[2] All three starred actor Christopher Eccleston, who subsequently featured in several dramas for Shindler's Red Production Company.

[12] Its first project, with Shindler producing, was writer Russell T Davies' gay drama serial Queer as Folk.

[19][20] Other productions produced by Shindler at Red are 2016's The Five and 2017's Trust Me,[21] alongside 2018's Come Home and Harlan Coben’s Safe, 2019's Years and Years from Russell T. Davies, and Traces, a second series of which is due in 2021, and Harlan Coben’s The Stranger (2020) Further new dramas produced by executive produced by Shindler due in 2021 include Finding Alice, It’s a Sin, Ridley Road, No Return, Traces Series 2 and Stay Close.

[22] Sited within ITV Studios, the label is based in Central Manchester and focuses on producing premium drama for the UK and international market.