Alan Bateman
William Alan Bateman was an Australian film producer and television screenwriter, producer and director best known as the creator and original executive producer of the soap opera Home and Away, the series he created after Seven Network owner Christopher Skase was looking for a series to be commissioned to be a rival series of Neighbours and feature Australians in an Australian setting that could be sold overseas, after Bateman went to him with the project he created and had worked on for the past three years, Skase gave the series the green light..He was the son of William Glyde Bateman. He was the head of drama and director manager of the Seven Network and General Manager of Network Ten. He died on 18 August 2012 from cancer.Filmography
