Pete McTighe
Episodes Broadcast: 2018, 2020
A lifelong Doctor Who fan, Pete McTighe got his professional
break on Neighbours in 2008; over a six-year span, he was
involved with more than one hundred episodes as a writer, storyliner or
story editor. He also wrote various liner notes for the Doctor
Who DVD range from BBC Video and 2|entertain. In the early 2010s,
McTighe provided scripts for shows like EastEnders,
Crownies, Tricky Business and Winners & Losers. In
2013, he scored a major hit with the prison drama Wentworth, on
which he was the lead writer. McTighe also contributed to programmes
including The Doctor Blake Mysteries and Glitch.
In 2018, McTighe renewed his involvement with Doctor Who in two
significant ways. First, he became a consultant on the new Blu-ray range
devoted to the show's twentieth-century run. In this capacity, he not
only developed written material, but was also responsible for extensive
promotional trailers which often saw prominent castmembers reprising
their original characters. Furthermore, McTighe achieved his longtime
ambition to write for televised Doctor Who, with Kerblam! placing Jodie
Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor in the midst of a futuristic send-up of
online giant Amazon. He also scripted 2020's Praxeus, and he was earmarked
for a slot in the 2021 run as
well, until the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the decision to reformat the
season as the six-part Flux.
During the Twenties, McTighe was an executive producer on A Discovery
Of Witches, for which he also wrote an episode. He then took the
same role on two series of his own creation: The Pact and The
Rising. In 2023, McTighe novelised Kerblam! for BBC Books. The same
year, he contributed to the Tales From The TARDIS series on BBC
iPlayer. In 2024, it was announced that McTighe was partnering with
Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies to write a spin-off series
entitled The War Between The Land And The Sea.
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