Gwyneth Hughes

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Gwyneth Hughes is a British documentary director and screenwriter who works mainly in television.

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Career

She is a former newspaper journalist from the north of England.

Her credits include the crime drama Five Days , Cherished , a film about the wrongful conviction of Angela Cannings, an adaptation of Charles Dickens's unfinished work The Mystery of Edwin Drood , and The Girl , which explores an alleged obsession Alfred Hitchcock had with the actress Tippi Hedren. [1] Her work on Five Days earned her a nomination at the 2008 Golden Globe Awards. [2] In 2013, she wrote Remember Me , a television drama serial that debuted on the BBC in November 2014.

In 2018, Hughes executive-produced and adapted William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair into a seven-part television mini-series for ITV and Amazon Studios. Hughes wrote the true crime miniseries Honour in 2020, for ITV, Hughes adapted Henry Fielding's novel Tom Jones into a miniseries broadcast on PBS in 2023. [3] [4]

In January 2024, ITV broadcast Mr Bates vs The Post Office , Hughes' four-part series about the British Post Office scandal, a miscarriage of justice in which hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted.

The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain awarded its highest Awards accolade, the Outstanding Contribution to Writing Award, to Hughes in January 2025. [5]

Television

YearTitleWriterExecutive
Producer
CreatorNotes
1996–1997 The Bill YesNoNo3 episodes
1997 Dangerfield YesNoNo1 episode
1998 Silent Witness YesNoNo2 episodes
2000 The Mrs Bradley Mysteries YesNoNo1 episode
2000SleeperYesNoYes
2002 Blood Strangers YesNoYes
2003Peter in ParadiseYesNoYesTV Movie
2005 Cherished YesNoYesTV Movie
2005Beneath the SkinYesNoYesTV Movie
2006 Mysterious Creatures YesNoYesTV Movie
2007 Miss Austen Regrets YesNoYesTV Movie
2009 Hunter NoNoYes
2009 U Be Dead YesYesYesTV Movie
2007-2010 Five Days YesNoYes
2012 The Mystery of Edwin Drood YesNoYes
2012The GirlYesNoYesTV Movie
2013 Talking to the Dead YesNoYes
2013Remember MeYesYesYes
2016 Dark Angel YesYesYes
2018Vanity FairYesYesYes
2018 Doing Money YesNoYesTV Movie
2020HonourYesYesYes
2021 Three Families YesYesYes
2023Tom JonesYesYesYes
2024 Mr Bates vs The Post Office YesYesYes

References

  1. "The Girl". BBC Media Centre. BBC. 27 November 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  2. "Miss Austen Regrets: Writer Gwyneth Hughes". BBC Press Office. BBC. 29 February 2008. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  3. Grater, Tom (9 September 2021). "Solly McLeod & Sophie Wilde Starring In 'Tom Jones' Reimagining For Masterpiece, Mammoth Screen & ITV". Deadline.
  4. Rice, Lynette (28 December 2022). "PBS Reveals 2023 Debut Dates: When To See 'All Creatures Great And Small,' 'Vienna Blood,' 'Tom Jones' And More". Deadline.
  5. televisual.com; Creamer, Jon (13 January 2025). "Mr Bates writer wins WGGB outstanding contribution award". Televisual. Retrieved 14 January 2025.