Paul Douglas Cornell (born 18 July 1967) is a British writer best known for his work in television drama as well as ''

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'' fiction, and as the creator of one of the Doctor's spin-off companions,

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. As well as ''Doctor Who'', other British television dramas for which he has written include ''

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'', '' Primeval'', '' Casualty'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. For US television, he has contributed an episode to the modern-day set

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series ''

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''. Cornell has also written for a number of British comics, as well as

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and

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in America, and has had six original novels published in addition to his ''Doctor Who'' fiction.

Career

Already known in ''Doctor Who'' fan circles, Cornell's professional writing career began in 1990 when he was a winner in a young writers' competition and his entry, ''Kingdom Come'', was produced and screened on

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. Soon after, he wrote '' Timewyrm: Revelation'', a novel for the

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series of ''Doctor Who'' novels. ''Timewyrm: Revelation'' was a reworking of a serialised

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piece Cornell had penned previously for the

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''Queen Bat''. Several other ''Doctor Who'' novels followed, including the award-winning ''

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''. Cornell then began working for

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, where he wrote for the popular children's medical drama '' Children's Ward'' and created his own children's series ''

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'' for Yorkshire Television, which ran for two series. He made the crossover to working in adult television full-time in 1996, when he was one of the main contributors to Granada's supernatural soap opera '' Springhill'', which ran for two years on

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and later on

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. After a short stint on ''

'', he began working for other production companies, including contributing an episode in 1999 to Red Production Company's anthology drama series ''

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'' for Channel 4. His episode, entitled ''Masturbation'', starred Ioan Gruffudd as Jack. He was due to be one of the writers on Red Production Company's planned ''

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'' spin-off series ''Misfits'', but the series was never made, being abruptly cancelled by Channel 4. In the 21st century he has written mainly for the BBC, contributing episodes to all three of their regular medical dramas: ''Casualty'', ''Holby City'' and the daytime soap opera '' Doctors''. He also contributed to the 1950s-set Sunday evening prime time drama series ''

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'' and was one of the writers of the 2005 series revival of ''Doctor Who'', writing the episode " Father's Day". The episode was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form in 2006 and came third in terms of votes for its category. Cornell later wrote a two-part story for ''Doctor Whos 2007 series, based on his 1995

novel ''Human Nature''. The title of the first episode was also "

", while the second was titled " The Family of Blood". In 2008, the two episodes were nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. In February 2006, Cornell announced in a post on his weblog that he would be writing an episode for the BBC's forthcoming ''

'', produced by

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for the same Saturday evening family slot as ''Doctor Who''. He later announced on his blog that he was also writing a second ''Robin Hood'' episode for later in the first series. His first episode, " Who Shot the Sheriff?", aired on BBC One on 21 October 2006. His second, "

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", followed on 2 December 2006. He also wrote an episode for the second season of another Saturday evening family adventure programme, the ITV science-fiction series '' Primeval'', transmitted in February 2008. He also wrote the one-off pilot ''

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'', which was shown on

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in early June 2010. Outside of television, he has been active in various other media, having written six ''Doctor Who'' novels for Virgin Publishing and

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during the 1990s, three ''Doctor Who'' audio dramas for Big Finish Productions and a fully animated internet-broadcast ''Doctor Who'' adventure, ''

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'' (starring

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as the Doctor) for

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in 2003. He has also written two mainstream science-fiction novels, '' Something More'' and '' British Summertime'' for Gollancz, and various novels, short stories and audio dramas based around a character he created for the

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, Professor

, and whom he later licensed to Big Finish Productions. He has also co-authored (often working with Keith Topping and Martin Day) several non-fiction books on television, including ''The Guinness Book of Classic British TV'', ''X-treme Possibilities'' (a guide to ''

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''), and ''

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'' (a humorous guide to ''Doctor Who''). (Topping and Day's ''Doctor Who'' novel '' The Devil Goblins from Neptune'' was also based on an original idea with Cornell.) He has also written comics, both for ''

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'' and the '' 2000 AD'' spin-off '' Judge Dredd Megazine''. He has written ''

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'', a 6-issue

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for

' MAX imprint, featuring the character

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, with art by Trevor Hairsine and Manuel Garcia. It was announced at the 2007 Wizard World Chicago comic book convention that Cornell would be following

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on Marvel's '' New Excalibur''. Plans were subsequently changed with the cancellation of the ''New Excalibur'' title and Cornell's new project was announced as being titled '' Captain Britain and MI: 13''. The third trade paperback, ''Vampire State'', was nominated for the 2010 " Best Graphic Story"

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. Cornell has also written '' Young Avengers Presents'' No. 4 (April 2008) and a

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mini-series comic, '' True Story'', which started in July 2008, which featured the team encountering characters from the pages of literary classics. In 2008, he wrote a comic which featured on the Doctor Who website. He has also written the ''Young Avengers'' limited series that ties into Dark Reign and '' Black Widow: Deadly Origin'' a mini-series that ties into the character's appearance in '' Iron Man 2''. Cornell became the next ''

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'' writer after ''

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''. Cornell signed with DC Comics exclusively in 2010 as part of writing for ''Action Comics''. His 16-issue run on the series included number 900. In late 2010 and early 2011, Cornell completed nine issues set in Batman's world: ''Knight & Squire'', a six-issue miniseries, and a 3-issue run in ''Batman & Robin'', #17–19. In September 2011, as part of DC's

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relaunch, Cornell became the writer for the DC Comics titles ''

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'' and ''

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''. Cornell's last DC work was the 14-issue science fiction series ''

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'', which ended with the June 2013 issue. Cornell is part of the regular panel of the podcast '' SF Squeecast'', which won the 2012 and 2013 Hugo Award for best fancast. In January 2016, Cornell announced his return to television drama work when he told followers on his Twitter feed that he had written his first script for US television, contributing an episode to the CBS

series ''

''. In 2018, he started co-hosting (with Lizbeth Myles from the

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podcast) a podcast reviewing horror films made by

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entitled Hammer House of Podcast.

Personal life

In an interview on the '' Doctor Who: DWO Whocast'', Cornell stated that this entry in Wikipedia described him as "''...both a Christian and a

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...''", which he has chosen not to correct as it illustrates his sympathies for the

world. He then goes on to state that he is an

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but is very "''... Low Church, almost a

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..''" and this is partly because he doesn't enjoy

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. Spiritual themes are not uncommon in his work (for example his novel ''Something More''). Other frequent references in his work include owls. Cornell is married to

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, currently the Vicar of St Mary's Church, Fairford, who also has written ''Doctor Who''-based audio plays for

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on her own and with Cornell. In 2010, he appeared as a contestant on an episode of the

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quiz show ''

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''.

Bibliography

He has written novels, non-fiction, audio plays and comic scripts.

Novels

Virgin New Adventures

*Doctor Who: '' Timewyrm: Revelation'' () *Doctor Who: '' Love and War'' () *Doctor Who: '' No Future'' () *Doctor Who: ''

'' () *Doctor Who: '' Happy Endings'' ()

Virgin Missing Adventures

*Doctor Who: ''

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'' ()

Eighth Doctor Adventures

*Doctor Who: ''

The Shadows of Avalon ''The Shadows of Avalon'' is a BBC Books original novel written by Paul Cornell and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz, Compassion, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, ...

'' ()

Other Doctor Who novels

*Doctor Who: ''

'' () *Doctor Who: '' Twice Upon a Time'' () *Bernice Summerfield: ''

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'' () *Bernice Summerfield: ''

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'' (editor) *Bernice Summerfield: '' A Life of Surprises'' (editor) *Bernice Summerfield: '' Life During Wartime'' (editor)

Shadow Police novels

The following three novels in the series have been published by

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, with two further novels remaining unpublished. *''

London Falling {{For, the 2012 Urban Fantasy novel, Paul Cornell ''London Falling'' is a strip published in June-July 2006 in the British comics magazine '' 2000 AD'', created by writer Simon Spurrier and artist Lee Garbett. It explores bogeymen from English ...

'' () *'' The Severed Streets'' () *''Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?'' ()

Other novels

*'' Something More'' () *'' British Summertime'' () *'' The Uninvited'' () (

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for

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of 1997 ITV science-fiction drama serial) *''Chalk'' () Published March 2017

Short fiction

*
The Ghosts of Christmas
on Tor.com, 19 December 2012 *
The Elephant in the Room
on Tor.com, 29 May 2013 – a Wild Cards story * ''Rosebud'' (novella), Tordotcom, 26 April 2022

Jonathan Hamilton stories

About an out-of-uniform soldier in a parallel world where the ‘great game’ of European espionage continues into space. * Catherine Drewe (2008) Available to read for free at th
Pyr Books Sample Chapters blog
* One Of Our Bastards Is Missing (2009) Available as a pdf download fro
Solaris Books
* The Copenhagen Interpretation (2011) Available as a pdf download fro
www.asimovs.com
(Hugo 2012 Nominee Novelette) * ''A Better Way to Die'' (Novella, 2014) Included in the Rogues (anthology)

Witches of Lychford novella series

*''Witches of Lychford'' () *''The Lost Child of Lychford'' () *''A Long Day in Lychford'' () *''The Lights Go Out in Lychford'' () *''Last Stand in Lychford'' ()

Non-fiction

*''Avengers Dossier: The Definitive Unauthorised Guide'' () with Martin Day and Keith Topping *''Licence Denied: Rumblings from the Doctor Who Underground'' () (editor) *''X-treme Possibilities: A Paranoid Rummage Through The X-files'' () with Day and Topping *''

'' () with Day and Topping *''The Guinness Book of Classic British TV'' with Day and Topping *''The New Trek Programme Guide'' () with Day and Topping

Audio plays

*''The State of The Art'', (2009), adapted from the Iain M. Banks

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, originally Broadcast on

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*''Something in the Water'' (2011), originally Broadcast on

Doctor Who

*''

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'' (2000) *'' Seasons of Fear'' with Caroline Symcox (2002) *''

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'' with Mike Maddox (2007) *'' 100'' with

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and

Joseph Lidster Joseph Lidster is an English playwright and screenwriter, best known for his work on the ''Doctor Who'' spin-off series '' Torchwood'' and '' The Sarah Jane Adventures''. Biography His debut work was the audio play ''The Rapture'' for Big Finish ...

(2007) *'' Love and War'' (audio adaptation by Jacqueline Rayner of novel) (2012) * ''Shadow of a Doubt'' (audio drama for #DoctorWhoLockdown featuring

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as Bernice Summerfield) (2020) * ''The Shadow In The Mirror'' (audio drama for #DoctorWhoLockdown) (2020)

Professor Bernice Summerfield

*''

'' (audio adaptation by Jacqueline Rayner of novel) (1998) *'' Buried Treasures'' with Jacqueline Rayner (1999) *''

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'' (2004) *'' Many Happy Returns'' with Xanna Eve Chown, Stephen Cole,

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, Rebecca Levene, Jacqueline Rayner,

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and Dave Stone (2012)

Comics

*''

'': ** "Stairway to Heaven" (with co-author John Freeman and pencils by Gerry Dolan and inks by Rex Ward, in ''

'' No. 156, 1990) ** "Teenage Kicks" (illustrated text story, in ''

'' No. 163, 1990) ** "The Chameleon Factor" (with pencils by

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and inks by

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, in ''

'' No. 174, 1991) ** " Emperor of the Daleks" (with co-author John Freeman and art by

, in ''

'' #197–202, 1993) ** "Time and Time Again" (with art by John Ridgway, in ''

'' No. 207, 1993 ** "Metamorphosis" (with art by

, in ''Doctor Who Yearbook'' 1993) ** "Blood Invocation" (with art by John Ridgway, in ''Doctor Who Yearbook'' 1995) *''Pan-African Judges'' (with Siku, in '' Judge Dredd Megazine'' vol. 2 #44–49, 1993–1994) *'' Deathwatch'': "Faust & Falsehood" (with

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, in ''Judge Dredd Megazine'' vol. 3 #8–13, 1995–1996) * ''

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'' (with D'Israeli, in ''Judge Dredd Megazine'' #209–214, 2003–2004, trade paperback, ''XTNCT: CM ND HV G F Y THNK YR HRD NGH!'', 48 pages, hardcover, December 2006, ) *''

'' (with Trevor Hairsine and Manuel Garcia, 6-issue

, January–July 2007, tpb, 144 pages, August 2007, ) * '' Young Avengers Presents'' No. 4 (with Mark Brooks, Marvel Comics, April 2008, collected in ''Young Avengers Presents'', 144 pages, October 2008, ) * '' Captain Britain and MI: 13'' #1–15 plus annual (with Leonard Kirk, Marvel Comics, May 2008 – July 2009): ** ''Secret Invasion'' (collects ''Captain Britain and MI: 13'' #1–4, 104 pages,

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Screenplays

Some of the notable series and episodes he has worked on include: *'' Casualty'': ** "Crash Course" (2001) ** "You're Going Home in the Back of an Ambulance" (2002) ** "Past, Present, Future" (2002) ** "Code Red" (2002) ** "An Accident Waiting To Happen" (2003) *''

'' ** "Under Pressure" (2004) *''

'': ** " Father's Day" (2005) ** "

" (2007) ** " The Family of Blood" (2007) *''

'' ** " Who Shot the Sheriff?" (2006) ** "

" (2006) *'' Primeval'' (2007) **" Traitor Revealed" (2008) *''Pulse'' (pilot, 2010) *''

'': ** "You've Got Me, Who's Got You?" (2016)

Notes

References

* *
Paul Cornell
at Barney

External links

Paul Cornell's weblog
*
Paul Cornell on the Literature Map

Interviews

Paul Cornell interviewed at CONvergence 2010 by The Omega Podcast (in mp3 format)Podcast Interview with Paul Cornell (in mp3 format)Interview with Paul Cornell on the Bullpen Bulletins PodcastInterview with Paul Cornell at MillarworldInterview with Paul Cornell at YMCA EnglandAuthor interview: Paul Cornell
'' SFX'', 10 June 2008
Special Edition Podcast: Paul Cornell
'' iFanboy'', 3 July 2008
X-POSITION: Paul Cornell

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, 23 September 2008
Geek Syndicate Podcast Interview with Paul Cornell (in mp3 format)Paul Cornell live at BICS 2008 on the Geek Syndicate Panel
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