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Ed Hime (born 1978), is a British screenwriter and playwright, best known for his work with the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Career

Hime was born in 1978 in London. He was a fan of Doctor Who in his youth. He began his career as a playwright in 1998, releasing the play About the Boy that same year. Other plays he had written included Small Hours (at Hampstead Theatre), as well London Falls and London Tongue at the Old Red Lion Theatre. He also worked in radio, winning the 2007 Prix Italia award for Best Original Radio Drama for his radio play, The Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body.

On television, Hime has written for the fourth and fifth series of the teen drama Skins. Hime was attached to work on a new series of Sapphire & Steel with Luther creator Neil Cross. However, the project was never produced.

In 2018, he wrote the ninth and penultimate episode of the eleventh series of Doctor Who, It Takes You Away. He returned to write the third episode of the twelfth series, Orphan 55. He co-wrote the seventh episode of The Watch, which is inspired by the Ankh-Morpork City Watch from the Discworld series of fantasy novels by Terry Pratchett. He wrote three of the eight episodes of Lockwood & Co., the Netflix series about teenage ghost hunters released in 2023.

Filmography

References

1. "Ed Hime". United Agents. Archived from the original on 10 December 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
2. "Ed Hime | A Brief History Of Time (Travel)". www.shannonsullivan.com. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
3. Nolan, Peter (29 November 2018). "Ed Hime - New Doctor Who Series 11 Writer Profiled". Blogtor Who. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
4. "Playwrights recruited for new series of Doctor Who". British Theatre. 21 August 2018. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
5. "BBC Radio 3 - the Wire, the Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
6. Prix Italia, Winners 1949 – 2010, RAI Archived 22 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
7. "'Luther' Creator Neil Cross to Revive 1970s Sci-fi Series 'Sapphire & Steel'". Variety. 9 July 2015.
8. "Neil Cross Discusses 'Hard Sun', 'Luther' Movie, 'Escape From New York' Remake". Deadline Hollywood. 4 December 2017.
9. Ruediger, Ross (3 December 2018). "Doctor Who Recap, Season 11, Episode 9: 'It Takes You Away'". Vulture.com. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
10. Power, Ed (2 December 2018). "Doctor Who, series 11, episode 9, 'It Takes You Away', review: Jodie Whittaker's best outing yet". The Independent. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
11. "Doctor Who promises "terrifying" new monsters in scary new episode 'Orphan 55'". Radio Times. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
12. "Terry Pratchett's Discworld The Watch TV Series". Discworld Monthly. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
13. https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/ed-hime

External links

• Ed Hime at IMDb

• 1978 births
• 21st-century British male writers
• Living people
• British television writers
• British male screenwriters
• British science fiction writers
• English dramatists and playwrights
• English male dramatists and playwrights
• Television people from London