Paul Rose (writer)

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Paul Rose
Asperger's Are Us with Paul Rose.jpg
Asperger's Are Us with Paul Rose (2nd from right)
Born (1971-08-05) 5 August 1971 (age 52)
Pen nameMr Biffo
OccupationScreenwriter
NationalityBritish
Period1993–present
Genre
Notable works
Notable awards
SpouseSanja Rose
Children3, and 3 step-children [6]

Paul Rose (born 1971), known by his online persona Mr Biffo, is a British screenwriter. He was the editor of the Teletext-based video games magazine Digitiser, which ran between 1993 and 2003, and is a BAFTA-nominated writer of children's television.

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Career

Video games

In 1993 Rose founded the Teletext-based video games magazine Digitiser . This ran until 2003, with the service reaching over 1.5 million viewers a week. [7]

In 2014, the Digitiser brand returned as an online website titled Digitiser 2000, penned by Rose. This was followed in 2018 by a video series, Digitiser: The Show, a retrogaming magazine show funded through Kickstarter. [8] The programme now takes the form of shorter weekly uploads to its YouTube page, titled Digitiser Mini. [9]

Rose has also written for Official PlayStation Magazine and Retro Gamer . From 2003 to 2008 he also wrote a monthly column in Edge entitled Biffovision.

Rose also devised the storyline for the multi-format video game Future Tactics . [10]

Children's television

Rose is the co-creator and lead writer of the CBBC sitcoms Dani's House , its follow-up Dani's Castle and the programme 4 O'Clock Club , which was nominated for 'Best Children's Comedy' at the 2012 BAFTA Children's Awards. Rose has also worked on the CITV series My Parents are Aliens , which itself was nominated for 'Best Children's Drama' at the 2004 BAFTAs. [11]

Rose has also worked on shows such as Half Moon Investigations , Barking! , The Worst Witch and Sooty . [12]

As of 2019, Rose is currently working on the CBBC show Almost Never, a comedy-drama series co-created with Jeremy Salsby and starring Emily Atack and Kimberly Wyatt. [13]

Other work

As well as his work on Children's television, Rose has also contributed to a number of programmes for adult audiences, including The Armstrong and Miller Show , a 2003 episode of UK soap opera EastEnders and the fourth series of Stella . He has also written for numerous film and technology magazines, including Deathray , Empire , Total Film and .net .

In 2003, Rose won a Sony Radio Academy Award for his writing on The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show on XFM. [14]

In 2007, Rose co-wrote a TV pilot, which was broadcast on BBC Three, titled Biffovision. It was produced by Hartswood Films and is a parody of children's television co-written with Tim Moore. [15] He has also written a number of non-broadcast television pilots, including Too Much Too Young and Now The Weather.

In May 2007, Rose published the book Confessions of a Chatroom Freak through Friday Books, which has since gone into liquidation. In it, Rose posed as a beautiful young woman called LoopyLisa21f who chatted to men online, mostly about sexual acts they wanted to do to Lisa, and then published the transcripts. [16] [17]

In 2014, Rose was the screenwriter of Pudsey: The Movie , a film starring the Britain's Got Talent winner Pudsey the Dog. Pudsey is voiced for the movie by David Walliams.

In 2017, Rose successfully funded a Kickstarter campaign to bring together Mr Biffo's Found Footage, a comedy montage series in the found footage style, which culminated in a short sci fi film featuring Violet Berlin. [18] [19]

In September 2020, Rose started his own podcast via the Acast network. Titled Between You And Me, the series features Rose and his wife Sanja exploring the back-catalogue of British rock band Marillion. [20]

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