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Pete McTighe is a British writer who has written for many television productions in the UK and Australia including Wentworth, Glitch, EastEnders, Tatau, Nowhere Boys, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Neighbours, Crownies and Winners & Losers. McTighe has received five Australian Writers Guild Award nominations for his work.
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McTighe was born in the United Kingdom. McTighe was invited to join the writing team at Neighbours in 2006. McTighe wrote the show's 6000th episode, which aired as part of the 25th anniversary on 27 August 2010. In 2012, he was nominated for an Australian Writers Guild Award (AWGIE) in the category of Best Television Serial for Episode 6231, which featured Jim Dolan's death.
McTighe later wrote scripts for the ABC drama series Crownies, Tricky Business and the Seven Network drama Winners & Losers. In 2011, McTighe started writing for the BBC One drama EastEnders. The following year it was announced McTighe would be writing a reimagining of Prisoner Cell Block H called Wentworth. McTighe was the head writer for the first series, writing six of the ten episodes. His pilot script for Wentworth was unveiled to the media in February 2013 to a positive reception. Ben Pobjie from The Age called the production "a no-holds-barred triumph". His pilot episode became the most watched non-sport program in subscription television history, and the series itself went on to sell extensively internationally and to be remade (using McTighe's scripts) in the Netherlands and Germany. The series has won dozens of awards including Most Outstanding Drama several years in a row.
McTighe wrote episodes for the second series of The Doctor Blake Mysteries. A keen Doctor Who fan, McTighe wrote the sleeve notes for many of the classic Doctor Who DVD releases during the final years of the range. McTighe wrote episodes for the second series of Wentworth, including the opening episode and the series finale. In 2014 he wrote for the BBC America supernatural/mystery series Tatau, as well as the third series of Wentworth and the comedy-drama Cara Fi. In 2015, McTighe received two AWGIE Award nominations – one for his Wentworth Series 2 finale episode "Fear Her" and one for the teen supernatural series Nowhere Boys. In August 2016 he was nominated for an Australian Writers Guild Award for the Wentworth Series 3 finale "Blood And Fire" and a year later in 2017 he was nominated for a fifth time for the Wentworth Series 4 finale. He also wrote scripts for the 2017 Netflix/ABC drama series Glitch.