Ed Hime

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Ed Hime
Born1978 (1978)
London, England
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, playwright
Known forThe Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body
Doctor Who

Ed Hime (born 1978), is a British screenwriter and playwright, best known for his work with the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who . [1]

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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. [2] [3] Other plays he had written included Small Hours (at Hampstead Theatre), as well London Falls and London Tongue at the Old Red Lion Theatre. [4] 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. [5] [6]

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. [7] However, the project was never produced. [8]

In 2018, he wrote the ninth and penultimate episode of the eleventh series of Doctor Who , It Takes You Away . [9] [10] He returned to write the third episode of the twelfth series, Orphan 55 . [11] He co-wrote the seventh episode of The Watch , [12] 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 [13] of Lockwood & Co. , the Netflix series about teenage ghost hunters released in 2023.

Filmography

YearTitleNotesBroadcaster
2010–11 Skins Episodes: "Emily" and "Liv" E4
2018–20 Doctor Who Episodes: "It Takes You Away" and "Orphan 55" BBC One
2021 The Watch Episode: "Nowhere in the Multiverse" BBC America
2023 Lockwood & Co. Episodes: "Doubt Thou the Stars", "Sweet Dreams" and "Mesmerised" Netflix

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