Question: Roy Battersby, is a British television director, noted for his work in drama productions such as which British crime drama series, set in Manchester, and produced by Granada Television for ITV, created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern?

Context articles: Roy Battersby
Floodtide (TV series)
Cracker (U.S. TV series)
The Street (UK TV series)
Cracker (UK TV series)
ITV Studios
Cold Feet
The Lakes (TV series)
Murder City (TV series)
ITV Granada

Roy Battersby (born 1936) is a British television director, noted for his work in drama productions such as "Between The Lines", "Inspector Morse", "Cracker" and "A Touch of Frost."
 Early in his career he made documentary features for the BBC programmes "Tomorrow's World" and "Towards Tomorrow".
 In 2005, his film "Red Mercury" was shown at the Montreal World Film Festival.
Floodtide is a British television crime drama was produced by Granada Television, first broadcast on ITV from 14 June 1987 to 12 February 1988.
 The series focuses on a dogged inspector's pursuit of a group of cocaine smugglers across Europe and his bid to bring them to justice.
 A total of thirteen episodes aired over the course of nine months.
 Co-produced and partly filmed in France, it was one of the first ITV dramas to be co-produced with an international production company.
 Written by acclaimed "The Sweeney" scriptwriter Roger Marshall, the series was released on DVD by Network DVD for the first time on 19 July 2010.
Cracker is an American crime drama series produced by Granada Entertainment based upon the British television crime drama of the same name created by Jimmy McGovern that series ran on ABC from September 18, 1997 until January 24, 1998.
The Street is a British television drama series created by Jimmy McGovern and produced by Granada Television for the BBC.
 The series follows the lives of various residents of an unnamed street in Manchester and features an all-star cast including Timothy Spall, Jim Broadbent, Jane Horrocks, Bob Hoskins and David Thewlis.
Cracker is a British crime drama series produced by Granada Television for ITV, created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern.
 Set in Manchester, the series is centered on a criminal psychologist (or "cracker"), Dr Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald, played by Robbie Coltrane, who works with the Greater Manchester Police to help them solve crimes.
 The show consists of three series which were originally aired from 1993 to 1995.
 A 100-minute special set in Hong Kong followed in 1996, and another two-hour story in 2006.
ITV Studios is a television production company owned by the British television broadcaster ITV plc.
 It is primarily based in Greater Manchester and London in the United Kingdom.
 It was formerly ITV Productions, and originally Granada Productions (the in-house production arm of Granada Television).
Cold Feet is a British comedy-drama television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network.
 The series was created and principally written by Mike Bullen as a follow-up to his award-winning 1997 Comedy Premiere of the same name.
 The series follows three couples experiencing the ups-and-downs of romance, originally Adam Williams and Rachel Bradley (James Nesbitt and Helen Baxendale), Pete and Jenny Gifford (John Thomson and Fay Ripley) and Karen and David Marsden (Hermione Norris and Robert Bathurst).
 As the original series progressed, the Giffords divorced and Pete married Jo Ellison (Kimberley Joseph), whilst Karen and David also separated forming relationships with Mark Cubitt (Sean Pertwee) and Robyn Duff (Lucy Robinson).
The Lakes is the title of a television drama series in the United Kingdom, made by the BBC and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern.
Murder City is a British crime drama series produced by Granada Television, first broadcast on 18 March 2004 on ITV, that focuses on two mismatched detectives — DI Susan Alembic (Amanda Donohoe) and DS Luke Stone (Kris Marshall) — who scour London solving complex cases.
 The first series consisted of six episodes.
 A second and final series of four episodes was subsequently commissioned, which began broadcast on 5 April 2006.
 Following declining viewing figures, a third series of "Murder City" was not commissioned.
 BBC America began airing the complete series on August 17, 2006, and it was subsequently released in a Region 1 four-disc DVD box set by Image Entertainment on August 14, 2007.
ITV Granada (formerly Granada Television; informally Granada) is the Channel 3 regional service for North West England.
 The licence for the region has been held by ITV Broadcasting Limited since November 2008.
 It is the largest independent television-franchise producing company in the UK, accounting for 25% of the total broadcasting output of the ITV network.
 It had been held by Granada Television, which was founded by Sidney Bernstein and based at Granada Studios on Quay Street in Manchester since its inception.
 This was the only surviving company of the original four Independent Television Authority franchisees from 1954; Granada Media Group (parent company of Granada Television) merged with Carlton Communications to form ITV plc in 2004.
 It covers Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, northwestern Derbyshire, part of Cumbria and North Yorkshire.
 On 15 July 2009, the Isle of Man was transferred to ITV Granada from ITV Border (even though the Isle of Man is a British Crown Dependency and is not part of the United Kingdom).