Jim Loach (born 6th June, 1969) worked as a director on 15 episodes of Coronation Street between July and December 2000. The son of acclaimed director Ken Loach, he studied philosophy at university with the intention of becoming a journalist but moved to direction after working on World in Action for Granada Television. In a 2010 interview with The Guardian, he told how he tried to introduce improvisation into the dialogue in his Coronation Street work in the same style as his father and was told under no uncertain terms that was not how the programme worked. He did say thought that "for my gran it was the absolute pinnacle of my career. And there was nothing that my dad had done before or since that could top it…"
He has also directed episodes of Footballers' Wives, Bad Girls, Waterloo Road, Shameless, Casualty and its two spin-off programmes Holby City and Holby Blue.
Episodes directed by Jim Loach
2000 (15 episodes)
- Episode 4863 (26th July 2000)
- Episode 4883 (30th August 2000)
- Episode 4884 (1st September 2000)
- Episode 4902 (2nd October 2000)
- Episode 4903 (4th October 2000)
- Episode 4904 (6th October 2000)
- Episode 4905 (8th October 2000)
- Episode 4928 (13th November 2000)
- Episode 4929 (15th November 2000)
- Episode 4930 (17th November 2000)
- Episode 4931 (19th November 2000)
- Episode 4951 (18th December 2000)
- Episode 4952 (20th December 2000)
- Episode 4953 (22nd December 2000)
- Episode 4954 (24th December 2000)
