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Maxine Alderton is a British screenwriter, best known for her work on the
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science fiction television series ''
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the u ...
''.
Career
Beginning as a script editor in the mid 2000s, Alderton graduated to writing for the long-running ITV soap opera ''
Emmerdale
''Emmerdale'' (known as ''Emmerdale Farm'' until 1989) is a British soap opera that is broadcast on ITV1. The show is set in Emmerdale (known as Beckindale until 1994), a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, '' ...
'', writing over 120 episodes since 2013. She won Best Writer at the Royal Television Society Yorkshire Awards in 2017.
She has also written for the first two series of ''
The Worst Witch
''The Worst Witch'' is a series of children's books written and illustrated by Jill Murphy. The series are primarily about a girl who attends a witch school and fantasy stories, with eight books published. The first, ''The Worst Witch'', was ...
'', and in 2020, contributed the eighth episode of the
twelfth series of ''Doctor Who'', "
The Haunting of Villa Diodati
"The Haunting of Villa Diodati" is the eighth episode of the twelfth series of the British science fiction television programme '' Doctor Who'', first broadcast on BBC One on 16 February 2020. It was written by Maxine Alderton, and directed by ...
."
The episode was set on the night
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (; ; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic fiction, Gothic novel ''Frankenstein, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818), which is considered an History of scie ...
was inspired to write ''Frankenstein''. She returned to co-write the fourth episode, "
Village of the Angels
"Village of the Angels", prefixed frequently with either "Chapter Four" or "''Flux''", is the fourth episode of the thirteenth series of the British science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who'', and of the six-episode serial known collect ...
," with
Chris Chibnall
Christopher Antony Chibnall (born 21 March 1970) is an English television writer and producer, best known as the creator and writer of the award-winning ITV mystery-crime drama ''Broadchurch'' and as a showrunner of the long-running BBC sci-fi ...
for the
thirteenth series (known as ''Flux''). The episode saw the return of recurring villains, the
Weeping Angel
The Weeping Angels are a race of predatory creatures from the long-running science fiction series ''Doctor Who''. They were introduced in the 2007 episode "Blink", making repeat appearances in later episodes. They also appeared in the spin-off s ...
s. It is the only episode to be written by someone other than showrunner Chibnall. The episode also featured a
mid-credits scene
A post-credits scene (commonly referred to as a stinger or credit cookie) or mid-credits scene is a short clip that appears after all or some of the closing credits have rolled and sometimes after a production logo of a film, TV series, or video g ...
, something unusual for the programme.
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Living people
21st-century British women writers
British soap opera writers
Women soap opera writers
British women television writers
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
Year of birth missing (living people)