Name Richard Dinnick | Role Novelist | |
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Books The Internet Atlas, The Eye of Ashaya, Alien Adventures, Moshi Monsters: The Offici, Super Moshi Missions | ||
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Richard Dinnick (born 22 January 1968) is a British screenwriter, novelist, comic book writer and audio playwright. He is the winner of the 2012 BBC 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 and Go Jetters - amongst others - as well as Mind Candy's new Moshi Monsters TV show. He was one of six finalists in a 2014 BBC Academy 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.
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- Episode 9 f r i e n d s the one with richard dinnick in it
- Honours awards
- TV
- Film
- Novels
- Comics
- Short stories
- Audio scripts
- Non fiction
- Journalism
- References
He is writing on the third series of Thunderbirds Are Go! for ITV/AMAZON STUDIOS and is developing several ideas for TV including a fantasy drama, Never After and a primetime crime drama, Murder of Crows, a workplace drama, No Kidding, and an urban fantasy show, The Last Horseman.
Dinnick has written prose, scripts and comics for many media properties including MGM's Stargate and the BBC's Doctor Who, as well as adapting the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – including The Hound of the Baskervilles – for CD release. His first novel Alien Adventures was published by BBC Children's Books in 2010 and he has since gone on to write books and short stories for Penguin UK, Titan Publishing, Black Library, Running Press and Snow Books. BBC Books published his anthology of stories: Doctor Who Myths & Legends in June 2017.
He has also written comics for IDW, BBC Magazines and is currently the writer on Titan Comics 12th Doctor line of comics. His first original graphic novel is also in the works.
He is also often a guest at writing events (including the London Screenwriters' Festival) and Doctor Who conventions (such as Gallifrey One).
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.
His UK TV agent is Emily Smith at The Agency and his manager in the USA is Joe Riley at Zero gravity Management.
Honours & awards
TV
Dinnick has written for television since winning the BBC Writersroom opportunity in 2012. In 2013 he was as a judge on the drama panel for the Children's BAFTA Awards and in 2017 became a staff writer on the ITV show Thunderbirds Are Go.
Dinnick has a number of works in development with broadcasters and production companies in the UK and USA.
Film
Dinnick is working on a web series for Capital City Entertainment, Light & Shadows (AKA Dead Good).
Novels
Dinnick has written the following books:
Comics
Dinnick has contributed to the following Doctor Who comics:
According to his website he is also developing an original graphic novel with Legendary Entertainment.
Short stories
Dinnick's first fiction was the short story "Neptune" for Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who anthology Short Trips: Solar System. His published short stories are:
Audio scripts
He has written scripts for several different franchises, largely for Big Finish Productions:
Non-fiction
Dinnick has written a number of non-fiction works:
As editor:
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) and Real Business as part of their editorial teams.
In the late 1990s, he moved to Internet Magazine. 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'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.