Dean Wilkinson
| Dean Wilkinson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Dean Earle Wilkinson April 18, 1967 Guisborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Education | Bassleton Secondary School (now Thornaby Academy) |
| Occupation | Writer, performer |
| Years active | 1990-present |
Dean Earle Wilkinson (born April 18, 1967) is an English comedy writer. He wrote the multi-award winning SMTV Live and Chums for Ant & Dec, and scripted the Sony console game series LittleBigPlanet.
Dean Earle Wilkinson was born in Guisborough.
Wilkinson began writing in 1989 for adult and children’s comics including Smut and Zit. He was appointed editor of the anarchic children’s comic Acne before releasing his own titled Fizog. His first TV scripts were performed by Charlie Chuck (Uncle Peter from The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer) on The James Whale Show. Other breaks came on The Brian Conley Show, Six Pairs Of Pants and We Know Where you Live. In 1997 Wilkinson provided many sketches for the penultimate series of Alas Smith & Jones. Greater success came when Chris Pilkington, then of Children’s BBC, paired him with the Geordie pop duo P.J. & Duncan, later more widely known as Ant and Dec, with whom he worked for 7 years. Wilkinson wrote The Ant & Dec Show, Ant & Dec Unzipped and several TV specials for the duo. The biggest success was the Saturday morning show SMTV Live which featured the sitcom Chums. Wilkinson quit the show not long after Ant and Dec left to work for the BBC. Whilst working for the BBC he wrote 2 series of his sitcom Bad Penny starring John Shuttleworth actor Graham Fellows, and two series of his sketch show Stupid!, starring Marcus Bridgstock and Phil Cornwell. Wilkinson co-created and co-wrote the radio 4 show John Shuttleworth’s Open Mind. In 2006 the BBC commissioned to write his radio sketch show I’m An Alien Beam Me Off Here starring Blake's 7 star Paul Darrow. Wilkinson co-wrote Harry Hill’s Shark Infested Custard with Harry Hill in 2005. Other TV work has seen him writing for BBC pre-school channel CBeebies's forthcoming Teacup Travels and Doodle Do as well as Casper’s Scare School, Aardman’s Planet Sketch, links for Noel Edmonds on Are You Smarter than a 10 Year Old? and all 26 episodes of the Malaysian action comedy animation series Jinggo, produced by Backbone Entertainment.
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