Richard is a screenwriter and author.

Richard is currently writing a special 64-page comic launch the brand new Thirteenth Doctor comic series, a collaboration between Titan Comics and BBC Studios. He is also writing Lost in Space: Countdown to Danger, a new four-issue comic book prequel to the new reboot of the popular TV property Lost in Space. He has been commissioned by Chrysalis Vision to develop an original crime series.

A previous winner of the BBC Writer’s Room Opportunity, Richard participated in the 2015 and 2016 NBC Universal development initiative.

His new original comic ROB was announced November 2017 to be published by Webtoon and Legendary Comics.

Television

SURFACE TENSION (Chrysalis Vision) Current
Original crime series in development

MURDER OF CROWS Current
Pilot for a crime series

NEVERAFTER Current
Family fantasy TV series, pilot episode

THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO (ITV/ITV Studios/Weta) 2018

LIGHT AND SHADOWS (Capital city entertainment) 2018
12 part web series

CAPTAIN EXTRAORDINARY (Rushfirst Creative) 2016
Pilot episode for children’s television show

EENA MEENA DEEKA (Disney) 2015
52 episodes

MAJID (Majid TV) 2015
Member of the LA writers’ room for new show for UAE children’s channel, Majid Kids TV.

GO JETTERS (BBC) 2015-2016

TREE FU TOM (BBC) 2014-2016

STARGATE SG-1 – DUPLICITY (MGM) 2013

DOCTOR WHO (Big Finish Productions) 2012
Commissioned to write three scripts for Big Finish’s Doctor Who Main
Range and Companion Chronicles. Paradoxicide was released in August 2011. The
Wanderer was released in April 2012 and The Rings of Ikiria was released in June 2012

SHERLOCK HOLMES – THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
SHERLOCK HOLMES – THE TANGLED SKEIN (Big Finish Productions) 2012
Commissioned to adapt two Sherlock Holmes novels for Big Finish’s audio range
of plays. Richard also credited as Assistant Producer.

Books

LOST IN SPACE Countdown to danger Current

DOCTOR WHO The Thirteenth Doctor Vol. 0 (Titan Comics) Current
64 page special comic launching Jodie Whittaker as the first female Doctro Who

ROB (Legendary Comics/Webtoon) Current

TIME LORD MYTHS & LEGENDS (BBC Books/Penguin Random House) 2018
An anthology of Doctor Who short stories based on classical mythology.

DOCTOR WHO – TARDIS, DALEK, CYBERMAN, SONIC SCREWDRIVER, K9, WEEPING ANGEL, ADIPOSE and SUPREME DALEK (Running Press, Perseus Books Group) 2013-Current
Originally published in 2013 as part of the TV Show’s 50th Anniversary. Two titles published annually.

ENCOUNTERS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES – short story, The Adventure of the
Swaddled Railwayman (Titan Publishing) 2013

DOCTOR WHO SPECIAL, TIME FRAUD (IDW Publishing) 2012