Glenn Chandler (including its series "Crown Court") before creating and writing his own series "Taggart" for STV Productions (ITV Network). Chandler created "Taggart" for STV's Controller of Drama, Robert Love, who wanted to set a police series in Glasgow. Chandler was inspired by true crime and real life, and even lifted the names of characters for the series from gravestones in Maryhill Cemetery in Glasgow. The series continued even after the death of the actor Mark McManus, who played the lead role of Jim Taggart, and became the longest-running police drama on British television. Chandler has continued to write for his first
Tamara Taggart Vancouver Kingsway federal riding. Tamara Taggart Tamara Taggart, OBC is a Canadian television presenter, born on May 2, 1968, in Vancouver, British Columbia. She recently served as the weekday anchor of "CTV News at Six" alongside Mike Killeen on CIVT-TV ("CTV British Columbia") in Vancouver, British Columbia. On April 9, 2018 both Tamara and Mike were fired from CTV. Taggart's career in broadcasting started while she was attending BCIT in Burnaby, British Columbia, where she was enrolled in the Broadcast Communications program. She graduated in 1991 (her class included Vancouver sports broadcaster John Shorthouse, NewCap Radio GM Steve Parsons, McVay