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Alan Whiting is a British screenwriter who has written for Wire in the Blood and Kingdom (which he also co-created). [1] [2]

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Whiting's career began in the mid 1960s, contributing episodes to The Newcomers , a BBC soap opera which dealt with a London family, the Coopers, who moved to a housing estate in the fictional country town of Angleton. Into the 1980s and 1990s, he wrote for multiple series, such as Heartbeat , El C.I.D. , Boon and See You Friday .

In the 2000s, Whiting wrote for the period swashbuckler The Scarlet Pimpernel and Steel River Blues . "The Darkness of Light", one of his Wire in the Blood episodes, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Television Feature Or Mini-Series Teleplay in 2005. [3] [4]

He adapted Half Broken Things as a television movie for Festival Films [5] and it was broadcast on ITV in 2007. He later wrote the historical miniseries Titanic: Blood and Steel [6] and some episodes of the first series of Strike Back .

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References

  1. ↑ Welsh, James (1 July 2006). "Stephen Fry to star in new ITV drama". Digital Spy . Retrieved 18 March 2007.
  2. ↑ "Fry's 'Kingdom' gets second series". Digital Spy . 15 March 2007.
  3. ↑ "2005 Edgar Nominees and Winners". Mystery Writers of America . 28 April 2005. Archived from the original on 8 June 2007. Retrieved 16 June 2007.
  4. ↑ "Alan Whiting".
  5. ↑ "Festival TV development". Festival Films. Archived from the original on 20 February 2007. Retrieved 16 June 2007.
  6. ↑ Talmon, Noelle (9 November 2011). "Neve Campbell, Chris Noth & Kevin Zegers Pose On The Set Of 'Titanic' Miniseries". Star Pulse.


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