Joe Ahearne
Episodes Broadcast: 2005
Born in Ireland, Joe Ahearne made a splash at the 1994 Edinburgh
Festival with his short film Latin For A Dark Room. He was soon
recruited to television, writing and directing for the drama This
Life and then creating the vampire thriller Ultraviolet.
Following the turn of the century, Ahearne directed for Dark
Realm and Strange before making five Doctor Who
episodes in 2005, featuring Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor.
They included Robert Shearman's Dalek, which made the title
monster scary for a brand-new generation of viewers, and The Parting Of The Ways, which
culminated in the Ninth Doctor's regeneration.
Ahearne was reunited with Eccleston on the 2006 telefilm Perfect
Parents, before he created Apparitions, on which he received
his first credit as an executive producer. He began an association with
Marvel Comics in 2009, scripting several issues involving the Fantastic
Four family of characters. In the 2010s, Ahearne wrote and directed
The Secret Of Crickley Hall and The Replacement, while
other scripts included an episode of Da Vinci's Demons. His
first movie screenplay was 2013's Trance for Danny Boyle,
adapting his 2001 telefilm of the same name. Ahearne returned to the
silver screen in 2017, writing and directing the thriller B&B,
which starred Eighth Doctor Paul McGann.
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