Isidingo's head writer: 'Heads will not roll and blood will not be spilled and even if this was going to happen I would tell the actors personally first.'

Isidingo's head writer Liam J. Stratton says heads are not going to roll at the popular SABC3 soap calling malicious rumours that characters are getting written out soon "unfounded and unjust".

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"Heads will not roll and blood will not be spilled and even if this was going to happen, I would have the decency and respect to inform the actors personally first. Face to face. Way in advance," Liam J. Stratton TV with Thinus.

"Marking my turf? Sensationalist stories? I'm not a gossip journalist ... sorry, I mean writer ... no journalism involved. I guard future stories fiercely and am very protective over all aspects and people that are involved to tell it well, including the actors whom I have the greatest respect for" says Liam J. Stratton.

"I would suggest these gossip journalists ... sorry I mean writers, could learn something from the approach I am applying to my team about telling stories - that the best ones are grounded in reality, research and most importantly getting it right," says Liam J. Stratton.

Liam J. Stratton appointed as the new head writer of SABC3 soap Isidingo, wants to 'recapture the magic' that Isidingo once had.

Liam J. Stratton has been appointed as the new head writer for Isidingo, the weekday soap on SABC3 produced by Endemol South Africa at Sasani Studios in Johannesburg.

The Briton from the United Kingdom says he wants to "recapture the magic" Isidingo once had and build on  the talent "and go back to the days where people rushed home to catch up with what's happening down at Horizon Deep".

Liam J. Stratton will now be leading the soap's creative team and focus the direction of the soap's future storylines which suffered a temporary disruption a year ago after a blaze swept through the soap's studios at the SABC's Henley Studios forcing rewrites, outside shoots and new temporary sets.

Liam J. Stratton who arrived in South Africa in 2011 and majored in writing for TV drama, sitcoms, soaps and theatre was script editor for M-Net Africa and Mzansi Magic's Nigerian soap Tinsel.

He created, wrote and developed a Mzansi Magic mini-series and wrote the sitcom Let Heaven Wait which just started on SABC3. He's also been a story consultant on e.tv's soap Rhythm City.

He is currently working with producers and broadcasters on a training initiative for comedy writers and performers set to start next year and is also a journalist and copywriter.