Ian Simmons – Pathways

Ian Simmons has been writing professionally for over 25 years. He’s been a head writer / script producer for Andrew Denton, Good News Week, The Glass House, The Sideshow and Wednesday Night Fever.

Ian has worked for all five free-to-air networks, and has written for Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell, the Logie, ARIA and AACTA Awards, and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Ian has also worked in radio, as a book and copy editor, and for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. He’s won eleven Writers’ Guild Awards, one AFI and one ARIA, and in 2012 received the Fred Parsons Award for Outstanding Contribution to Australian Comedy at the Australian Writers’ Guild Awards.

Projects on file

The Good Stuff

When a straight-laced cop is forced to work with a rough-and-tough antiques expert to solve a high-profile crime, all kinds of sparks begin to fly.

XFM

Welcome to the radio station of misfit toys, home to staff too dangerous, dysfunctional or just plain dumb to get a job somewhere better.

Slow Roasted

A savage journey into the hot, spicy underbelly of a TV cooking show.

Right & Wrong

When you want the real news, you want Right & Wrong, where the “facts” never get in the way of the truth.

The Creeps

When two young women start investigating paranormal, supernatural and other weird occurrences, they uncover a lot more than they bargained for.

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Ian Simmons