Iain Coyle (born 9 January 1968 in

Burscough Burscough () is a town and civil parish in West Lancashire in the ceremonial county of Lancashire, England. It is located to the north of Ormskirk and northwest of Skelmersdale. The parish also includes the hamlet of Tarlscough and the Martin ...

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) is a British

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and producer and

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. He was educated at St Bede's RC Comprehensive,

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, and Sheffield Polytechnic where he studied Fine Art.

Broadcasting career

Iain has juggled presenting, writing, producing and formatting various television and radio projects, as well as heading the development departments at Cactus TV,

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and

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, where he has devised and produced. His most recent projects has been producing

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and The Games on

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, and now exec producing

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's forthcoming '

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'. "Dicing With Debt" (Channel 4), "

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" (

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) and "Rum" (Sky 1). He recently devised all the games and pranks on

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for

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and even found himself interviewing contestants from the ‘diary room'. Iain has written for a broad range of comedy and entertainment shows including Vic& Bob's "Shooting Stars" & "Families at War",

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's "If I Ruled the World", Alan Davies' pan-European "One For The Road" and Rowland Rivron's "Bite The Bullet". He also had a hand in many other successful productions like "Phil Kay Feels", "So

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" and game shows "Dating Hell", "Incognito", "Food Fight" and "The Waiting Game". Iain wrote and presented over 50 episodes of "Funny Business", ITV's weekly late night comedy magazine show, he was a roving reporter on Channel 4's "Last ChanceLottery", a celebrity film interviewer on both "Moviewatch" and "

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". He also co-presented "One Night Stand", LWT's late night entertainment show with Gail Porter, was the comedy advisor on ITV's primetime talent show "Give Your Mate A Break" and the consumer reporter on ITV's "We Can Work It Out". Recently broadcast material on the

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include Iain's interviews with

Peter Kay Peter John Kay (born 2 July 1973) is an English actor, comedy writer and stand-up comedian. He has written, produced and acted in several television and film projects, and has written three books. Born and brought up in Bolton, Kay studied ...

(Peter Kay - The Early Years) and

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and

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(Lucas & Walliams - The Early Years). Iain has also been the Host of 'Not Just a Matter of Life and Death – The Liverpool Podcast' for more than 65 episodes since 2009.

References

Mike Leigh Associates Agent

Uk Games Show Databas

Yorkshire Post Intervie

External links

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* Not Just a Matter of Life and Death - Liverpool FC Podcast at Playback Medi

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