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British television producer and executive Mal Young was born in Liverpool, England, in 1956. His initial career was in the Graphic Design industry, and it was not until the age of 27 that he began working in television, on the acclaimed Channel 4 soap opera Brookside.
Working on the show for nearly a decade, he worked his way up to become its Producer in the early 1990s, although his tenure was criticised by some for taking the show away from its social realist roots towards a more sensationalist, ratings-chasing format. He moved on to work on ITV police drama The Bill and then later another soap opera, Channel 5's Family Affairs.
In 1998, he moved to the BBC to become the corporation's Controller of Continuing Drama Series, a position he still holds as of February 2004. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing all of the organisation's continuing episodic drama series (as opposed to serials, which are handled by the Head of Serials).
Programmes he is responsible for include the soap opera EastEnders, medical dramas Doctors, Casualty and the latter's spin-off series Holby City, police dramas Dalziel & Pascoe and Merseybeat, anthology series The Afternoon Play and science-fiction series Doctor Who.
