Pete McTighe
| Pete McTighe | |
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| Born | Peter McTighe[1] United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Television writer |
Pete McTighe is a British writer who has written for many television productions in the UK and Australia including Wentworth, EastEnders, Tatau, Nowhere Boys, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Neighbours, Crownies and Winners & Losers. McTighe has received three Australian Writers Guild Award nominations for his work.
Career
McTighe was born in the United Kingdom.[2] McTighe attended a course on writing for soap operas at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, which was run by the supervising script editor for Neighbours.[1] McTighe was invited to join the writing team at Neighbours in 2006.[1] He was later promoted to supervising script editor.[3] The following year, McTighe revealed that Neighbours would be going back to concentrating more on family drama.[3] McTighe wrote the show's 6000th episode, which aired as part of the 25th anniversary on 27 August 2010.[2] In 2012, he was nominated for an Australian Writers Guild Award (AWGIE) in the category of Best Television Serial for Episode 6231, which featured Jim Dolan's death.[4]
McTighe wrote scripts for the ABC drama series Crownies and later Tricky Business and the Seven Network drama Winners & Losers.[2][5][6] In 2011, McTighe started writing for the BBC One soap opera EastEnders.[7] The following year it was announced McTighe would be writing a reimagining of Prisoner Cell Block H called Wentworth.[8] McTighe was the head writer for the first series, writing six of the ten episodes.[2] His pilot script for Wentworth was unveiled to the media in February 2013 to a positive reception.[9][10] Ben Pobjie from The Age called the production "a no-holds-barred triumph".[11] His pilot episode became the most watched non-sport program in subscription television history,[12] and the series itself went on to sell extensively internationally and to be remade (using McTighe's scripts) in the Netherlands and Germany.[13]
Also in 2013, McTighe wrote episodes for the second series of The Doctor Blake Mysteries.[14] A keen Doctor Who fan, McTighe wrote the sleeve notes for many of the classic Doctor Who DVD releases during the final years of the range.[15] McTighe wrote episodes for the second series of Wentworth, including the opening episode and the series finale.[16] In 2014 he wrote for the BBC America supernatural/mystery series Tatau,[17] as well as the third series of Wentworth and the comedy-drama Cara Fi.[18] In 2015, McTighe received two AWGIE Award nominations – one for his Wentworth series 2 finale episode "Fear Her" and one for the teen supernatural series Nowhere Boys.[19]
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External links
- Pete McTighe at the Internet Movie Database
- Interview at The Perfect Blend
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