Glenn Wilhide

Wilhide's first feature film screenplay, a financial thriller called Extreme Cities, was optioned by Overbrook Entertainment and set to begin filming directed by Roger Donaldson under the title of first Cities and then Icarus Factor starring Clive Owen, Anil Kapoor, Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom in the spring of 2012, but the project stalled.

The drama Metropolis (2000) (Granada Television for ITV), about a group of recent graduate friends finding their feet in London, was both produced and directed by Glenn Wilhide, with addition direction by Tim Whitby and it was written by Peter Morgan.

In 1997 Wilhide produced the first series of the award-winning comedy The Royle Family starring Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, which they co-wrote with Henry Normal. It was first broadcast on BBC2 on 14 September 1998. Reviews for The Royle Family immediately recognised the ground-breaking nature of the comedy and its production quality. . Tim Hulse in the Express, wrote on October 31: "It's as if Samuel Beckett had been commissioned to write a sitcom." "Banal, repetitive, vulgar...and very funny" said the Time Out critic on October 10. The Guardian reviewer imagined the distinguished playwright Samuel Beckett endorsing the first series above all subsequent series of the show. Of the second episode, the Guardian critic Nancy Banks-Smith wrote: "This is a rivetingly original slice of life, like a bomb-damaged house displaying its vacancy to the world...The comedy is in the beautiful truth of observation, which hits the nail on the thumb." The second series was commissioned after just three weeks on air, according to The Daily Star (Wednesday, September 30, 1998). The Daily Mail's Jaci Smith, after the last episode on Friday October 23, wrote: "It was a masterpiece. And you know something? I'd have paid my licence fee three times over just for it." By late December The Royle Family had won Best New Television Comedy at The British Comedy Awards, and it ranks 31 in the BFI TV 100.

Wilhide disbanded ZED Ltd in 1996, and began working as a freelance producer at Granada TV, developing projects primarily with Gub Neal in the drama department.

Also at Zed and with Sophie Belhetchet, Wilhide produced The Manageress (1993) about a female manager of a football club. Cherie Lunghi starred as boss Gabriella Benson, co-stars included Tom Georgeson and Warren Clarke, and it was commissioned for a second series. The Manageress was said to be ahead of its time and to influence how women viewed football. A year after the second series finished, Karren Brady became the first female managing director of a club - (the Birmingham City Football Club). A BBC documentary made about her was titled The Real Life Manageress.

Wilhide produced The Camomile Lawn (1992), directed by his father-in-law Peter Hall and starring Felicity Kendal, Jennifer Ehle, Toby Stevens, Tara Fitzgerald and a young Rebecca Hall. It was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Drama Series and won the BAFTA for Best Costume. In 2018 it was named No 4 in The 60 Best British TV Shows of All Time by The Daily Telegraph.

Glenn Wilhide was co-founder of the independent production company called ZED Ltd in 1985, and he and partner Sophie Belhetchet went on to produce documentaries, talk shows, and dramas including The Camomile Lawn, The Manageress and The Peacock Spring, the latter starring Naveen Andrews, Wilhide's wife Jennifer Hall, and Hattie Morahan in her first role.

Wilhide's first full producer credit was a feature film at Zed titled The Road Home, directed by Jerzy Kaszubowski and shot in Poland for Channel 4 in 1985, when Wilhide was 27 years old. It was released as ‘’Cienie’’ in Polish one year later.

Glenn Wilhide (born 1958) is an American screenwriter and television producer.