Tony Grounds (born in East London) is a British playwright and screenwriter, who has worked extensively in television.[1][2][3] Grounds was described by The Independent (11 October 2002) as "the best TV writer of his generation".[citation needed]
- ^ Lynn Barber (7 May 2006). "'I had to keep kissing Angelina Jolie'". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 December 2010.
Ray Winstone rolls into his agent's office in Soho to meet me midafternoon, with his friend the writer Tony Grounds.
- ^ KathrynFlett (25 March 2007). "But what of plot and plausibility?". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 December 2010.
For about 88 of its 90 minutes, Tony Grounds's A Class Apart (BBC1) looked like the sort of fairy tale in which extremely unlikely people fall in love against the odds by way of heartfelt if overlong soliloquies, and you suddenly feel as though, hey, maybe it is a wonderful life after all.
- ^ Jed Mercurio (17 March 2007). "Classic twists". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 December 2010.
Tony Grounds, writer of Birth, Marriages and Deaths, comments: "There's obviously a place for all these adaptations and historical dramas that are rife at the moment. To me, great writing is when dramatists stick their pens in their hearts and give us something magical."