A prominent UK TV screenwriter, show-runner and crime specialist with over 200 hours of transmitted television. Barbara is the creator/writer and show runner of BBC1’s award winning crime series WAKING THE DEAD.
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WAKING THE DEAD 2
Barbara is the creator/writer and show runner of BBC1’s award winning crime series WAKING THE DEAD which ran for ten seasons and screened all over the world and won several nominations and finally an International Emmy for Best Drama Series in 2007.
She developed/re-created a Rebirth of the show writing a pilot script for HARTSWOOD.
And wrote a WTD Prequel (THE UNFORGIVEN) (5×1) for the original cast which as stripped across an entire week for Radio 4. Now a podcast.
Barbara wrote for BBC1’s CASUALTY over many seasons, (over 40 episodes) and was a core writer. She returned as a guest to write an experimental Two Parter, Silent Night, which won her a BAFTA. And the first BAFTA for the show.
Adaptations include CARLA (RDF for ITV 2×1) thriller starring Lesley Sharpe, Helen McCrory, Iain Glenn and directed by Diarmuid Lawrence.
And THE SMALL HAND, a Susan Hill, ghost story, a New Year special for Channel 5, starring Douglas Henshall.
KISS OF DEATH (2×1): Crime pilot for a long-running series BBC1 starring Danny Dyer and Louise Lombard transmitted 2008.
THE INVESTIGATOR (2hrs) Channel 4 with September Films, a true story, trail-blazing account of a lesbian soldier illegally ousted from the army. Starring Helen Baxendale.
IN DEVELOPMENT
UNSPEAKABLE (6×1) pilot and Bible for a long-running new crime drama commissioned for top Indie HARTSWOOD exploring the world and mind of a Forensic Psychologist. Not a cop show. But all about crime and criminals. And the WHY . Stories often unfold before the cops arrive or after they leave.
THE UNSPOKEN (6X1) A ‘period’ crime long-form series set in 1983 before the advent of DNA and all things digital. Pilot and Bible commissioned by Endor for Acorn. An exciting and innovative 2 POV format delivering a unique narrative .Currently well-advanced at script stage with the team.
DR JAKOB (4X8) A historical medical drama commissioned by PAPER and UFA set in Berlin around WW1 inspired by the genius German who invented the surgery to tackle the pandemic of soldiers’ mutilated faces as they returned from The Front.
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE (6X1) Commissioned by SLAM and ETCETERA SUNETRA PRODUCTIONS. Set in Liverpool, a released woman Lifer living with her sister and family, finds herself reworking the future with her very own dirty dozen as they train for a marathon.
THE TRUTH: Pilot and Bible commissioned by SKY for Mainstreet. (10×1) a long form, genre-busting crime series designed for a writer’s room.