Nicola Shindler
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Nicola Shindler is a British television producer and executive, the founder of Red Production Company, one of the foremost independent television drama production companies working in the UK today.
Shindler began her career working for Granada Television, for whom she first came to prominence as a script editor on the renowned ITV drama series Cracker (1993). She then went on to work as Assistant Producer on the BBC's epic Our Friends in the North (1996) and Producer on the critically-acclaimed Hillsborough, a dramatised account of the tragic 1989 football stadium disaster. All three of these starred actor Christopher Eccleston, who has subsequently featured in several dramas for Schindler's own Red company.
Red - named after the nickname of Shindler's favourite football team, Manchester United ("the Reds") - was formed in 1998 and its first project, with Shindler herself producing, was writer Russell T. Davies' controversial gay drama serial Queer as Folk. The praise for and discussion of Queer as Folk immediately gave Red a reputation as producers of noteworthy drama, and they followed this off with subsequent series for Channel 4 such as Love in the 21st Century (1999) and Queer as Folk 2 (2000).
Red has since produced dramas for both BBC Two and Two as well as main commercial channel ITV. The most high-profile of these have included Clocking Off (BBC One, 2000-03), Flesh and Blood (BBC Two, 2002), Bob and Rose (ITV, 2001) and The Second Coming (ITV, 2003).
As of April 2005, Red have several other productions for assorted channels in various stages of development.