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Richard Dinnick (born 22 January 1968) is a British screenwriter, novelist, comic book writer and audio playwright. He is a frequent guest at writing events (including the
London Screenwriters' Festival
The London Screenwriters' Festival is an annual writers' and film makers' festival held in London, England since 2010. The festival offers workshops, seminars, lectures, screenplay competitions and the opportunity to pitch projects to a number ...
) and such ''Doctor Who'' conventions as
Gallifrey One
Gallifrey One is an annual North American science fiction convention focusing primarily on the British television series '' Doctor Who'' and its spin-offs, ''Torchwood'', '' K-9'' and ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'', with an additional emphasis on ...
as well as
San Diego Comic Con.
Dinnick is a member of the
Writers Guild of Great Britain and the
Royal Television Society and a Patron of the Children's Media Foundation.
Journalism
Dinnick started his writing career on the local newspaper ''Esher News and Mail'' in 1986. He then specialised in business journalism, working on publications such as ''Director'' (the magazine published by the
Institute of Directors
The Institute of Directors (IoD) is a British professional organisation for company directors, senior business leaders and entrepreneurs. It is the UK's longest running organisation for professional leaders, having been founded in 1903 and incor ...
) and ''
Real Business'' as part of their editorial teams.
In the late 1990s, he moved to ''
Internet Magazine
''Internet Magazine'' was a monthly print title launched in October 1994 by the UK publishing house, Emap. Its last issue, number 119, was published in July 2004.
History
''Internet Magazine'' covered almost anything internet-related, as long a ...
''. During this time he appeared on numerous TV and radio programmes as well as newspapers and industry web sites talking about internet-related matters. He was also shortlisted for the
PPA
PPA may refer to:
Biomedical
* ''Palpatio per anum'', Latin medical term for a rectal examination
* Parahippocampal place area located within the parahippocampal gyrus
* Phenylpropanolamine
* Primary progressive aphasia
Organizations
* Pakistan ...
's PTC New Journalist of the Year Award in 1999.
Later he went on to work on the City desk of the ''
Sunday Express'' and chaired the Government Committee on Web Design Best Practice in 2002/3.
Writing career
Dinnick is the winner of the 2012
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Writersroom opportunity to create a new show and to write for TV on the BBC and went on to write for the CBeebies TV shows ''
Tree Fu Tom
Tree Fu Tom is a British live-action/ CGI television series which has been shown on BBC and CBeebies in the UK and Universal Kids and NBC in the USA. It is set in a miniature magical countryside and village area (Treetopolis) on the top of a pa ...
'' and ''
Go Jetters
''Go Jetters'' is a British 3D animated television series, airing on CBeebies and is also available on BBC iPlayer. A geography-based programme, it was commissioned by CBeebies controller Kay Benbow and is a co-production of CBeebies In-house ...
'' - amongst others - as well as
Mind Candy's new ''
Moshi Monsters
''Moshi Monsters'' was a British web browser massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) aimed at children aged 6–12, with over 80 million registered users in 150 territories worldwide. Users could choose from one of six virtual p ...
'' TV show. He was one of six finalists in a 2014
BBC Academy
The BBC Academy is an educational arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation which trains current and prospective broadcasting employees in the skills of the Broadcasting industry, in addition to training the corporation's own staff and prospect ...
opportunity to workshop a script for ''
Waterloo Road''. In 2015 Dinnick became Head Writer on the new Disney TV show ''Eena Meena Deeka'' and in-development action adventure show ''Captain Extraordinary''. He was also a
BAFTA Judge for Children's Drama and produced a session for the 2014 Children's Media Conference.
He is writing on the third series of ''
Thunderbirds Are Go!'' for ITV/Amazon Studios and is developing several ideas for TV. These include the fantasy drama''Never After'', primetime crime drama ''Murder of Crows'', workplace drama ''No Kidding'', and ''The Last Horseman'', an urban fantasy series. He is working on a web series for Capital City Entertainment, ''Light & Shadows'' (a.k.a.''Dead Good''). He also has a prime time TV crime drama in development with Chrysalis Vision, named "Surface Tension".
Dinnick has written prose, scripts and comics for such media properties including
MGM
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924 a ...
's ''
Stargate'' and the BBC's ''
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 ...
''. He has the
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes () is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a " consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and ...
stories of
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for '' A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Ho ...
, including ''
The Hound of the Baskervilles
''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in ''The Strand Magazine'' from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set i ...
'', for CD release. "The Underwater War" appeared in the tie-in ''Doctor Who: Alien Adventures'', published by BBC Children's Books in 2010. He has since gone on to write books and short stories for
Penguin UK
Penguin Books is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.[Titan Publishing
Titan Publishing Group is the publishing division of Titan Entertainment Group, which was established in 1981. The books division has two main areas of publishing: film and television tie-ins and cinema reference books; and graphic novels and ...]
,
Black Library
The Black Library is a division of Games Workshop (formerly a part of BL Publishing) which is devoted to publishing List of Black Library novels, novels and audiobooks (and has previously produced art books, background books, and graphic novels) ...
,
Running Press and Snow Books.
BBC Books
BBC Books (also formerly known as BBC Publishing) is an imprint majority-owned and managed by Penguin Random House through its Ebury Publishing division. The minority shareholder is BBC Studios, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasti ...
published his tie-in collection''Doctor Who Myths & Legends'' in June 2017 and he is contributing to the
Missy themed anthology - also from BBC Books - entitled 'The Missy Chronicles' to be published in 2018. He is also writing the foreword and contributing a story to the forthcoming anthology about Doctor Who Character,
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, generally referred to simply as the Brigadier, is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', created by writers Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln and p ...
, called ''Lineage'' from Candy Jar Books.
He has also written comics for
IDW,
BBC Magazines
Immediate Media Company Limited (styled as Immediate Media Co) is a British multinational publishing house that currently publishes a significant range of titles, including ''Radio Times, BBC Top Gear, BBC Good Food'' and a host of others. In H ...
and is currently the writer on
Titan Comics
Titan Publishing Group is the publishing division of Titan Entertainment Group, which was established in 1981. The books division has two main areas of publishing: film and television tie-ins and cinema reference books; and graphic novels and co ...
Twelfth Doctor line of comics. An original graphic novel - Rob - has also been announced to be published in 2018 by
Legendary Entertainment
Legendary Pictures Productions, LLC (doing business as Legendary Entertainment or simply Legendary) is an American film production and mass media company based in Burbank, California, founded by Thomas Tull in 2000. The company has collaborated ...
and
WEBTOON
Webtoons (), are a type of digital comic that originated in South Korea usually meant to be read on smartphones.
While webtoons were mostly unknown outside of Korea during their inception, there has been a surge in popularity internationally ...
alongside titles by
Jessica Chobot
Jessica Chobot (born Jessica Lynn Horn; July 7, 1977) is an American on-camera host and writer. She has hosted the IGN shows ''IGN Strategize'' and ''Weekly Wood'', which also runs on Xbox Live; she previously worked as presenter of the ''IGN ...
and
John Barrowman
John Scot Barrowman (born 11 March 1967) is a Scottish-American actor, author, presenter, singer and comic book writer. He is known for his role as Captain Jack Harkness in '' Doctor Who'' and ''Torchwood'', and as Malcolm Merlyn in the Arrow ...
.
Television
* Surface Tension (working title) - Chrysalis Vision (in development)
*
Thunderbirds Are Go - Staff Writer -
ITV Studios
ITV Studios is a British multinational television production and distribution company owned by the British television broadcaster ITV plc. It handles production and distribution of programmes broadcast on the ITV network and third-party broadcas ...
/
Weta Workshop/
Amazon Studios
Amazon Studios is an American television and film producer and distributor that is a subsidiary of Amazon. It specializes in developing television series and distributing and producing films. It was started in late 2010. Content is distributed th ...
* Eena Meena Deeka, Series 1 + 2 - Lead Writer - Maya/Cosmos/Disney
*
Tree Fu Tom
Tree Fu Tom is a British live-action/ CGI television series which has been shown on BBC and CBeebies in the UK and Universal Kids and NBC in the USA. It is set in a miniature magical countryside and village area (Treetopolis) on the top of a pa ...
, Series 5, 6, 7 - Staff Writer -
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