Pete McTighe

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Pete McTighe
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Peter McTighe [1]

United Kingdom
OccupationTelevision screenwriter

Pete McTighe is a British screenwriter and executive producer. He is originating writer of Wentworth , a female ensemble prison drama series that won Most Outstanding and Most Popular Drama at the Logie Awards. [2] He is the creator and writer of the BBC1 mystery thriller series The Pact and has written various television productions in the UK and internationally including Doctor Who , The Rising , Glitch , Nowhere Boys and A Discovery of Witches . McTighe has received five Australian Writers Guild Award and one Welsh BAFTA nomination for his work. [3]

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Career

Early work

McTighe was born in the United Kingdom. [4] He was invited to join the writing team at Neighbours in 2006. [1] His contributions to the series included the show's 6000th episode, which aired as part of the 25th anniversary on 27 August 2010. In 2012, he was nominated for his first Australian Writers Guild Award (AWGIE) in the category of Best Television Serial for Episode 6231. [5]

McTighe later wrote scripts for the ABC drama series Crownies , Tricky Business and the Seven Network drama Winners & Losers . [6] [7] In 2011, McTighe started writing for the BBC One drama EastEnders . [8]

Wentworth

In 2012, it was announced McTighe would be writing a reimagining of Prisoner Cell Block H called Wentworth . [9] McTighe was the head writer for the first series, writing six of the ten episodes. [4] His pilot script for Wentworth was unveiled to the media in February 2013 to a positive reception. [10] [11] Ben Pobjie from The Age called the production "a no-holds-barred triumph". [12] McTighe's pilot episode became the most watched non-sport program in subscription television history, [13] and the series itself went on to sell extensively internationally and to be remade (using McTighe's scripts) in the Netherlands and Germany. [14] The series has won dozens of awards including Most Outstanding Drama several years in a row. [15] McTighe wrote the opening episode and the series finale of the second season, [16] for which he received an AWGIE Award nomination. [17] In August 2016 he was nominated for an Australian Writers Guild Award for the Wentworth Series 3 finale "Blood And Fire" [18] and a year later he was nominated for a fifth time for the Wentworth Series 4 finale. [19] McTighe wrote 27 key episodes of the Series across the first 8 seasons. He appeared in a cameo role in the final scene of Season 7 which saw the return of popular villain Joan Ferguson. [20]

Doctor Who

In August 2018, McTighe was announced as one of the writers for the eleventh series of Doctor Who; his episode is the seventh in the series, titled "Kerblam!". [21] The BBC press release quoted him as saying, "My entire television career has quite literally been an elaborate plan to get to write Doctor Who – and no one is more shocked than me that it paid off. I've been having the time of my life working with Chris, and writing for Jodie and the new team, and can't wait for everyone to see what we've been up to." [22] In November 2019, McTighe was announced as one of the writers for the twelfth series, [23] co-writing "Praxeus" with Chris Chibnall. [24]

McTighe wrote the sleeve notes for many of the classic Doctor Who DVD releases during the final years of the range. [25] In 2018 he became Content Consultant for the Doctor Who classic Blu-ray range and also wrote the booklets that accompany each box set. [26] He writes and directs regular short films featuring classic Doctors and companions to promote the release of The Collection sets. [27]

In 2023 McTighe wrote the Kerblam! novelisation for the revived Target Books series, [28] as well as the additional material created for the Tales of the TARDIS re-releases of The Mind Robber and The Curse of Fenric .

In 2024, it was announced McTighe co-wrote The War Between the Land and the Sea alongside Russell T Davies, a Doctor Who spin-off. [29]

The Pact

McTighe created and wrote the BBC1 mystery thriller series The Pact which aired in May 2021, starring Laura Fraser, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Rakie Ayola, Eiry Thomas, Aneurin Barnard and Jason Hughes. The series was filmed in Wales. [30] [31] A second series was commissioned by BBC1 and was screened in October 2022 starring Rakie Ayola.

Other work

McTighe wrote episodes for the second series of The Doctor Blake Mysteries [32] In 2014 he wrote for the BBC America supernatural/mystery series Tatau, [33] and the comedy-drama Cara Fi . [34] In 2015, McTighe received an AWGIE Award nomination for his work on the teen supernatural series Nowhere Boys . [17] He also wrote scripts for the 2017 Netflix/ABC drama series Glitch . [35]

In June 2019, McTighe joined the second season of Sky/BBC America supernatural series A Discovery of Witches as a writer and executive producer. [36] He also wrote an episode of the Netflix series Clickbait.

In 2021, Sky Max broadcast his supernatural thriller series The Rising. [37]

In 2023, it was announced Bronte Pictures will produce McTighe's 1978, a period musical film about Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. [38]

Filmography

YearTitleCreditNotes
WriterDirectorExecutive
Producer
2008–2014 Neighbours YesWriter: Seasons 24–30 (89 episodes)
Senior storyliner: Season 24 (12 episodes)
Script editor: Season 24 (4 episodes)
Associate script editor: Season 24 (2 episodes)
Story editor: Season 24 (2 episodes)
Associate story editor: Season 24 (4 episodes)
Acting storyline editor: Season 24 (2 episodes)
2011–2013 EastEnders Yes(10 episodes)
2011 Crownies YesSeason 1 (2 episodes)
2012 Tricky Business YesSeason 1 (1 episode)
2012–2015 Winners & Losers YesSeasons 2–4 (6 episodes)
2013–2020 Wentworth YesHead writer: Season 1 (1 episode)
Screenplay: Season 1 (6 episodes)
Writer: Seasons 2–8 (21 episodes)
Also actor: Season 7 (1 episode, as 'Hobo')
2014–2016 The Doctor Blake Mysteries YesSeasons 2, 4 (3 episodes)
2014 Celblok H Dutch adaptation of Wentworth
Original script: Seasons 1–2 (10 episodes)
2014 Love Me YesSeason 1 (2 episodes)
2014 Nowhere Boys YesSeason 2 (1 episode)
2015 Block B – Unter Arrest German adaptation of Wentworth
Original story: Season 1 (5 episodes)
2015 Tatau YesSeason 1 (1 episode)
2017–2019 Glitch YesSeasons 2–3 (3 episodes)
2018–2020 Doctor Who YesSeasons 11–12 (2 episodes)
2018Galactic Glitter ToursYesVideo
2019 The Sixth Doctor on Trial Again YesShort
2019The PromiseYesYesVideo
2020The Home Assistants of DeathYesYesVideo
2020Return of the AutonsYesYesVideo
2021The Discovery of WitchesYesYesWriter: Season 2 (4 episodes)
Executive producer: Season 2 (10 episodes)
2021Doctor Who – 24 CaratYesYesVideo (also Editor)
2021A Business Proposal for Mel!YesYesVideo (also Editor)
2021–2022 The Pact YesYesSeasons 1–2 (12 episodes)
2021 Clickbait YesMiniseries (1 episode)
2022The Eternal MysteryYesYesVideo
2022 The Rising YesYesSeason 1 (8 episodes)
2022The StorytellerYesYesYesVideo
2023Defenders of the EarthYesYesYesVideo
2023The PassengerYesYesYesVideo
2023 Tales of the TARDIS Yes2 episodes
TBA1978YesYesFeature film (pre-production)
TBA The War Between the Land and the Sea Yes

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