sentences:  In 1994 he was commissioned to write an eight part thriller originally entitled Brighton Boy.During the course of the production, McHale took over as director and the serial was transmitted the following year under the title "Resort To Murder" winning an award at the Cologne Film Festival.He then went on to write on a number of films for both ITV and the BBC – "Silent Witness" ("An Academic Exercise, The World Cruise, The Fall Out, Closed Ranks, Running On Empty, Ghosts, Hippocratic Oath") "Waking The Dead, Dalziel And Pascoe, Second Sight, Trial And Retribution," also "Murphy's Law" starring James Nesbitt and the six part spin off from The Bill "Beech Is Back."