Career
While at Manchester Polytechnic, he wrote his dissertation about Coronation Street. After graduating in 1988, he was taken on by Granada Television as an archivist. He has written several books, both fiction and non-fiction, about the show and its characters and co-wrote Betty Driver"s autobiography.
Little left Granada in 2006 after writing 95 episodes of the Street and introducing the first gay character, Todd Grimshaw.
He created the characters Sean Tully, Archie Shuttleworth, Bev Unwin and Eric Gartside who was played by Peter Kay. He created, wrote and produced a 20-part series called Hollyoaks: In the City for Mersey Television.
The series was not recommissioned for a second series. He joined the Hollyoaks writing team, writing 12 episodes before moving to New York to work on "All My Children".
American Venture American Broadcasting Company Daytime hired him to be a creative consultant on All My Children.
He worked closely with Brian Frons, Barbara Esensten, James Harmon Brown, Charles Pratt, Junior. and Julie Hanan Carruthers. He was an Associate Head Writer from July 14, 2008 to November 2, 2009. Back in Britain In 2009 he returned to Coronation Street, writing a further nine episodes.
On 2 March 2010 it was confirmed that Little had left Coronation Street and joined its rival EastEnders.
In September 2010 his drama The Road to Coronation Street was broadcast on BBC4, telling the story of Coronation Street"s conception 50 years earlier. In 2013 Little wrote a comedy pilot "Kitten Chic" about a psychotic fag hag that aired on Sky Living and rejoined the writing team of "Hollyoaks".
He rejoined EastEnders in 2013 as part of Dominic Treadwell-Collins" team, receiving acclaim for an episode where Johnny Carter came out to his father Mick, played by Danny Dyer. Reality Little worked as story producer on the first series of ITV2 structured reality show The Only Way Is Essex before helping to cast, set up and story produce all series of E4"s British Academy of Film and Television Arts winning show Made in Chelsea.
2006 - British Academy of Film and Television Arts nomination - Coronation Street.
