Debbie Moon

{{Short description|English screenwriter and author}}

{{Use British English|date=January 2013}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| birth_place = London, England

| occupation = Screenwriter and author

| period = 2002–present

| genre = Fantasy, science-fiction, horror, drama

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Debbie Moon is an English screenwriter and author, best known as the creator and show-runner of the CBBC fantasy series Wolfblood.

Career

Moon wrote a screenplay for the low budget science fiction feature The 7th Dimension, and two episodes of the children's series The Sparticle Mystery. Although she published many short stories and some novels early in her career, her break came when she submitted her idea for Wolfblood to the BBC Writers Room, where it was selected as a series.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/writers-lab/be-inspired/debbie-moon|title=BBC Writersroom: Debbie Moon|access-date=15 June 2015}} Moon came up with the idea during a visit to a bookshop, saw the words "wolf" in one book title and "blood" in another and blended them together. It ran for five series and was nominated for several awards, winning the Royal Television Society Award for the Children's Drama category in 2013; the Banff Rockie Award in the category for 'Best Children's Programme (fiction)' that same year; In 2015 it won the British Screenwriters' Award in the category 'Best British Children's Television'.

Moon expanded into adult drama with Hinterland. On 10 June 2022 it was announced Moon would adapt the Blue is for Nightmares novels by Laurie Faria Stolarz to television.{{cite web | url=https://deadline.com/2022/06/blue-is-for-nightmares-podcast-tv-show-in-works-from-the-hideaway-ent-1235042990/ | title=The Hideaway Entertainment & Fictionz Partner on 'Blue is for Nightmares' Podcast, Will Also Develop YA Book Series for TV | date=10 June 2022 }}

Works

=Filmography=

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!Production!!Notes!!Broadcaster/Distributor

True Love (Once Removed)

|Short Film (2002)

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The 7th Dimension

|Feature Film (2009)

|Kaleidoscope

The Sparticle Mystery

|2 episodes (2011)

|CBBC

Wolfblood

|25 episodes (2012–2017), Creator/Showrunner

|CBBC

Hinterland

|2 episodes (2015–2016)

|BBC

Twisted Showcase

|"Muscle Memory" (2017){{cite web|url=http://www.twistedshowcase.com/home/2017/10/10/muscle-memory.html|title=Muscle Memory|date=10 October 2017|access-date=28 February 2018}}

|YouTube

Cops and Monsters

|1 episode (2018){{cite web|url=http://www.twistedshowcase.com/news/2015/10/27/debbie-moon-writing-an-episode-for-series-4.htmlhttps://copsandmonsters.co.uk/2018/01/12/cops-and-monsters-series-2-writers/|title=Cops and Monsters – Series 2 Writers Announcement|date=12 January 2018|access-date=28 February 2018}}{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

|Amazon Prime

Dog Years

|1 episode (2020){{Cite web|url=https://www.c21media.net/news/dog-years-leads-nelson-nutmeg-into-tv/|title = Dog Years leads Nelson Nutmeg into TV}}

|kidoodle.tv

Sherlock North

|1 episode (TBA){{cite tweet|number=997878433605603329|user=TheWRACGroup|title=#WRAC18 2. And you will next be able to see @DebbieBMoon's words come to life on screen in the Finnish TV series… |date=19 May 2018}}

|{{N/a}}

Blue is for Nightmares

| Showrunner

|{{N/a}}

=Novels=

=Short stories=

  • "Are You Now ...?" in the multi-author collection Premonitions: Different Eerie Warnings, 2004, Pigasus Press

Awards and nominations

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| 2013

| Wolfblood

| Children's Writer

| British Academy Children's Awards

| {{Nom}}

| {{N/a}}

| {{cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/2013/childrens/writer|title=2013 Children's Writer}}

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|rowspan=2|2014

| Wolfblood

| Children's Drama

|rowspan=2|British Academy Children's Awards

| {{Nom}}

| {{N/a}}

|rowspan=2| {{cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/2014/childrens|title=Children's in 2014}}

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|Wolfblood

|Children's Writer

|{{Won}}

|{{N/a}}

|-

|rowspan=2|2015

|Wolfblood

|Children's Drama

|British Academy Children's Awards

|{{Nom}}

|{{N/a}}

|{{cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/2015/childrens|title=Children's in 2015}}

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|Wolfblood

|Best British Children's Television

|British Screenwriters' Awards

|{{Won}}

|{{N/a}}

|{{cite web|url=http://www.londonscreenwritersfestival.com/whats-on/sessions/british-screenwriters-awards|title=The 2015 British Screenwriters' Awards}}

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References

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