Robert Neil Evans is a Welsh

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and

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Career

In 2010, a series of thirteen 30-minute episodes of Evans's sitcom, ''

Sadie J ''Sadie J'' is a British children's television comedy-drama series about a girl named Sadie Jenkins, who is described as "the only girl in a boys' world" because she is surrounded by her Dad Steve, his apprentice Keith, her brother Danny, his b ...

'', was commissioned by the children's channel

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. Series one of ''Sadie J'' began transmitting on 14 January 2011 on the CBBC Channel. Series two started on 25 January 2012, also on CBBC. Series three was commissioned shortly afterwards and began transmitting in January 2013, for a total of 39 episodes. In September 2012, it was announced that ''Sadie J'' had been sold to the US cable channel

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. The series began transmitting there in autumn 2013. Evans is also an actor and has made several cameo appearances in the show as Captain Skylo, star of the fictional TV sci-fi show ''Space Cargo''. Evans was a writer on ''

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'' for the first four seasons and season 6. In 2014, Evans created, wrote, and appeared in his own series of six 60-minute shows for ITV, '' Edge of Heaven''. The show is set in a 1980s-inspired

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in Margate. After writing on the

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series '' The Lodge'' in 2016, Evans and the comedy writer and actor

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created a show for Disney Europe. It was announced on 13 February 2017 on the ''British Comedy Guide'' website that Evans and Hart had collaborated on a ten-part comedy series.

Recognition

''Sadie J'' was nominated for a children's BAFTA in the best comedy category in 2011. ''Stella'' has multiple BAFTA award nomination and wins, and nominations for RTS and Broadcasting Press Guild Awards. In 2019 Evans was part of the writing team for Season 2 of '' Secret Life of Boys'', which was nominated for a Kids International Emmy Awards.

References

External links

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Evans, Robert Living people 21st-century Welsh male actors Welsh dramatists and playwrights Welsh male television actors Year of birth missing (living people)