Daisy Coulam

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Daisy Coulam
Born
Ryde, Isle of Wight, England
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Television writer
producer
Known for Grantchester

Daisy Coulam is a British television producer and screenwriter known for creating of the long-running murder mystery series Grantchester for ITV in 2014. [1]

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Biography

Coulam is from Ryde on the Isle of Wight, and attended Ryde High school. [1]

Coulam's early work in television included storylining Family Affairs and script editing The Bill . Following her work on The Bill, she was awarded a place on the BBC Writer's Academy, a programme designed to train new writers, and got to write on Doctors , EastEnders , Casualty and its spinoff, Holby City . [2] She'd move into primetime, writing Death in Paradise and Humans . Grantchester was based on The Grantchester Mysteries , collections of short stories written by James Runcie. [3] The first series was based on the six stories from the first book, Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death, and was broadcast in 2014. [4] It was a huge success and was recommissioned for several further series.

She also created the miniseries Deadwater Fell for Channel 4 in 2020, starring David Tennant as a Scottish doctor whose wife and three young children are murdered in a shocking fire. [5] [1] [6]

Filmography

YearTitleNotesBroadcaster
2007-2008Holby City2 episodes BBC One
2007-2011Casualty14 episodes BBC One
2007-2014Eastenders27 episodes BBC One
2008Doctors1 episode BBC One
2010 Accidental Farmer Pilot BBC One
2014 Death in Paradise 1 episode BBC One
2014-present Grantchester Creator, 51 episodesITV
2018 Humans 2 episodesChannel 4
2020 Deadwater Fell Creator, all episodesChannel 4

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References

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