Name Peter Keeley | ||
Peter Keeley is a British screenwriter and the creator of the television series I'm with Stupid, which airs on BBC Three.
Career
Keeley, who has cerebral palsy, conceived a protagonist and several other characters in the series with disabilities. I’m with Stupid won an RTS Northwest Award for Best New Comedy in 2005.
In 2007, The Farrelly Brothers made an American pilot of the show for NBC. The pilot was written by Wil Calhoun, whose credits include Friends.
He has appeared on the BBC One show, A Thing Called Love (2004) and appeared in series two of BBC Radio 4's Comedy Pick-Ups (2009). He self-published (2013) his first book of Detective Fiction on Amazon Kindle The first story is The Strange Case of Albert Mitchell. He was reportedly inspired to write the series after examining and researching the London Road Fire Station, Manchester, which he learned had formerly served as a police station. fire station and coroner's court.