Rob Williams | |
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Nationality | British |
Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, television producer |
Known for | The Victim Chasing Shadows Suspicion |
Rob Williams is a British screenwriter and producer, best known for the BBC1 crime drama The Victim . [1] [2]
Prior to his career in screenwriting, Williams worked in publishing. In 2008, he was awarded a place on the BBC Writer's Academy, a programme designed to train new writers for their long running television series. He went on to write for all four of the BBC's popular continuing dramas: Doctors , EastEnders , Casualty and its spinoff, Holby City . Williams also wrote episodes of Killing Eve , The Man in the High Castle and DCI Banks .
In 2014, ITV broadcast Williams' thriller Chasing Shadows . The series follows a missing persons unit, and stars Reece Shearsmith as Sean Stone, a detective Sergeant, and Alex Kingston. The series of four episodes concluded on 25 September 2014. [3]
In 2019, his four-part thriller miniseries The Victim , produced by STV Studios, was broadcast on BBC One. [4] It starred Kelly Macdonald, James Harkness and John Hannah, in a story about a murdered child's mother going on trial for inciting murder after she is accused of posting online the new identity and address of the man she believes murdered her son. [5] Williams teamed again with STV on prison drama Screw , which broadcast on Channel 4 in January 2022. [6] [7] [8] Williams was the showrunner of Suspicion , which streamed on Apple TV+ on 4 February 2022. [9] It is based on the Israeli series False Flag . [10]