Richard Dinnick

Richard Dinnick (born 22 January 1968) is a British screenwriter, novelist, 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 is now writing on 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 recent BBC Academy opportunity to workshop a script for Waterloo Road.

Dinnick is now 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 developing several ideas for TV including a fantasy drama, Never After and a primetime crime drama, Murder of Crows, which is the first of its kind. Richard is currently in pre-production on new web series – Light & Shadows – with Capital City Entertainment as writer/producer. Dinnick is also developing 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. He has also written comic strips for IDW and BBC Magazines and his first original graphic novel is in the works.

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