Paula Milne is a multi-award-winning writer. Her achievements include winning a Bafta, two International Emmy’s, two George Foster Peabody awards, two Women in Film and Television awards (for Outstanding Contribution to Screenwriting), a Writers Guild award and a John Grierson award for Best Drama Documentary, among many others.
Television
PLATFORM SEVEN (Dancing Ledge Productions for the BBC) Current Pilot based on Louise Doughty’s novel.
BLUE (Babycow) Current
Adaptation of John Sutherland’s policeman memoir.
BLACK FRIDAY (Hera Pictures) Current
Television pilot exploring corruption and cheap labour in the clothing industry.
INFIDELITY (Storyworld Entertainment/Anonymous Content/Paramount) Pilot episode based on a successful Russian series. Current
PARASOMNIA (Lionsgate) Current
Original pilot
THE ZONE (Annonymous Content) Current
Original series about the global refugee crisis
FAKE (Warp) Current
Original series about the proliferation of ‘fake’ and engineered news.
THE SAME SKY (Rainmark Films/Ufa/ZDF) 2016
6-part original espionage thriller about families divided by the Berlin Wall. Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, The Same Sky premiered at MIPcom in 2016 and transmitted on ZDF in 2017. It is now available on Netflix.
HIM (Mainstreet Pictures/ITV) October 2016
3 part drama about a teenage boy with supernatural abilities.
THE POLITICIAN’S HUSBAND (Daybreak Pictures) 2013
Starring David Tennant and Emily Watson
LEGACY (Slim Film & TV/BBC) 2013
Adaptation of Alan Judd’s cold war thriller directed by Pete Travis
Starring Carlie Cox, Romola Garai, Andrew Scott and Simon Russell Beale
WHITE HEAT (ITVP/BBC) 2012
6 part original series directed by John Alexander
Starring Sam Caflin and Claire Foy
THE NIGHT WATCH (BBC) 2011
Adaptation of the Sarah Waters novel
Starring Anna Maxwell Martin and Claire Foy
Directed by Richard Laxton
SMALL ISLAND (Ruby Films/AL Films/BBC Films) 2009
Adaptation of the Andrea Levy novel
Starring Ruth Wilson, Naomi Harris, Benedict Cumberbatch
Directed by John Alexander
Won an International Emmy
Won a Broadcast 2010 award
ENDGAME (Daybreak Pictures/ Channel 4) 2009
Won a George Foster peabody Award
Won the Grierson Trust Award for Best Drama Documentary
Nominated for a Prime Time Emmy for Best Made For TV Movie
Nominated for a RTS Award for Best Single Drama
THE VIRGIN QUEEN (BBC productions/BBC1) 2006
BAFTA and Emmy nominated four-part drama based on the life of Queen Elizabeth 1st
SECOND SIGHT (Twenty Twenty Television/BBC1) 1999/2001
Mini-series and 6 part police series starring Clive Owen
THE FRAGILE HEART (Carnival/Channel 4) 1997
Award-winning trilogy about medicine
THE POLITICIAN’S WIFE (The Producers/Channel 4) 1995
Award winning three part political trilogy
Won BAFTA for Best Drama Serial
Won WGGB Award for Best Drama
DIE KINDER 1990
Film
LET ME COUNT THE WAYS Current Screenplay based on the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Currently in development
I DREAMED OF AFRICA (Paramount) 2000
THE HOLLOW REED (Scala/Channel 4 Films) 1996
MAD LOVE (Touchstone Pictures) 1995
Starring Drew Barrymore and Chris O’Donnell
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