Television scriptwriter takes you down memory lane
by Apex Publishing
ACCLAIMED television scriptwriter and novelist Dean Wilkinson has compiled ‘The Classic Children’s Television Quiz Book’ It is packed with fascinating facts about the shows you loved as a child as well as those programmes currently capturing the imagination of today’s young audiences.
Television duo Ant and Dec have written the foreword to the book. Ant McPartlin said: “Be warned, be very warned: Dean’s Classic Children’s TV Quiz Book is going to cause you a whole load of brain-aching, memoryscraping, hair-pulling moments.”
Dec Donnelly said: “Cheers, Dean, The Classic Children’s TV Quiz Book has opened up a new social chapter of my life. I can now steer any conversation around to children’s TV and rattle off fascinating fact after fact I’ve gleaned from this tome of tots, toddlers and teenage telly testimony, impressing anyone within earshot.”
The book includes 1,000 questions from timeless classics like Thunderbirds, Blue Peter and Dr Who to the thoroughly up-to-date Sponge Bob, the questions in this book will not only test your memory of the characters you grew up with but your family’s knowledge of their current favourites.
Dean Wilkinson began writing comedy in children’s comics which saw him publish his own title Fizog which lasted a staggering 3 issues. He turned his attention to children’s television and went on to pen episodes and sketches for many shows including The Big Breakfast, Zig & Zag, Byker Grove, Timmy Towers, Comic Relief, Harry Hill’s Shark Infested Custard, Plant Sketch, to name a few. For many years he was Ant and Dec’s writer scripting the multi award winning SMTV Live and Chums. He is also creator and writer of CBBC TV’s Bad Penny and the smash hit sketch show Stupid. Dean lives on Teeside in the north of England with his wife and daughters.
Wilkinson’s spokesperson Chris Cowlin said: “This book brings back so many wonderful memories, it has something for everyone, this book will provide hours of enjoyment. The book has been backed by so many big names in television, including Gerry Anderson MBE, Tony Hart, Ant and Dec and Timmy Mallett.”
