Janice Hally

The couple co-created the Gaelic television drama serial Machair in the early 1990s and spent most of that decade on location in the Outer Hebrides making 99 episodes of the Gaelic television drama serial.

The play was then adapted for television and led to her nomination, at the age of 23 in the category of 'Best New Writer to Television' at the 1982 PYE television awards.

Hally was born in Glasgow and educated at Hillhead High School and Glasgow University where she studied Drama and English Literature. In 1980, the year that she graduated, she won the World Student Drama Trust ISPC award, judged by Alan Ayckbourn for her play Ready or Not. Ready or Not was subsequently performed professionally at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow.

During the 1980s Hally wrote scripts for the Scottish television series Take The High Road, before becoming associate script editor, then storyliner for the show, where she worked as part of an editorial team with Peter May and Tom Wright. During this period Take The High Road achieved its highest audience figures, topping the ratings in Scotland and being broadcast across Britain. May and Hally quit the show in 1989 and were married in 1990.

Janice Hally (born 18 March 1959) is a Scottish playwright and television screenwriter who has written more than 300 broadcast hours of prime-time British television drama serials and individual screenplays. She was co-creator and main screenwriter on the first-ever, long-running Gaelic drama serial Machair.