Barbara Cox (writer)
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Barbara Cox is a British writer and script editor who works mainly in television. She co-created{{cn|date=April 2025}} the 1990s television show 99-1 and in 2005 won a BAFTA for the children's drama Wipe Out in the category Writer, Best Adapted Script.
Biography
She has worked on programmes including The Bill, The Paradise Club, Cardiac Arrest, Love Hurts,{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/barbara-cox/|title=Barbara Cox|publisher=British Comedy Guide|access-date=2025-04-29}}{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/love_hurts/cast_crew/full/|title=Love Hurts|publisher=British Comedy Guide|access-date=2025-04-29}} Dangerfield and Holby City. In 1993-1994, she and Terry Johnson co-created the series{{cn|date=April 2025}} 99-1 , which starred Leslie Grantham and Sir Robert Stephens. 99-1 did well in its first season with ratings of 12 million, but was eclipsed in its second year when the BBC scheduled The X Files against it; a projected third series was not commissioned.{{cn|date=April 2025}}
From there, Cox worked on Wycliffe and several children's programmes, including I Was a Rat, Bootleg and Pig Heart Boy. In 2022, she was commissioned to write a TV series proposal and pilot script based on the book The Encyclopaedia of Scary Things. A University of Oxford graduate, Cox now oversees bachelor's courses in screenwriting at Birkbeck, University of London.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004778/barbara-cox|title=Ms Barbara Cox|publisher=Birkbeck University of London|access-date=2025-04-29}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/31790/the-screenwriter-and-the-industry-2022|title=The Screenwriter and the Industry 2022|date=2022|publisher=Birkbeck University of London|access-date=2025-04-29}}
In 2005, Cox won a British Academy Children's Film and Television Award for Writer, Best Adapted Script, for the children's drama Wipe Out,{{cite web|url=https://www.bafta.org/awards/childrens/writer-adapted|title=Through the Years: Childrens/Writer - Adapted|publisher=BAFTA|access-date=2025-04-29}} based on a book by Mimi Thebo.{{cite web|url=https://www.rlf.org.uk/writer/mimi-thebo/|title=Mimi Thebo|publisher=RLF|access-date=2025-04-29}}
External links
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Category:British women television writers
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