Simon Winstone
{{Short description|British author, screenwriter and script editor}}
{{for|the English footballer|Simon Winstone (footballer)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
Simon Winstone is a British author, screenwriter and script editor, best known for his work on Doctor Who and on the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
Career
Winstone worked for Virgin Books, overseeing their Missing Adventures Doctor Who series and briefly being in charge of the New Adventures after the series had ceased being a Doctor Who tie-in. His only novel, the New Adventure Where Angels Fear, was co-written with Rebecca Levene, his predecessor on the New Adventures.{{citation | last1=Levene | first1=Rebecca | year=1998 | title=Where Angels Fear | last2=Winstone | first2=Simon | publisher=Virgin Pub. | isbn=978-0-426-20530-2 }}
Winstone moved into TV in the late 1990s, working on the popular ITV soap opera Emmerdale for a period.{{cite web|url=http://www.c21media.net/news/detail.asp?area=4&article=38249 |title=BBC exec to lead Red Planet's factual arm |publisher=C21 media |date=25 October 2007 |accessdate=2011-01-29}} He then worked on rival BBC series EastEnders for many years as a story editor and then as a producer. In 2005, Winstone was announced as a script editor for Doctor Who on TV, a role he had until 2007.{{cite web|author=David Williamson, Western Mail |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/business-in-wales/business-news/tm_headline=dr-who--man--lands-at-city-s-red-planet-office-&method=full&objectid=18651123&siteid=50082-name_page.html |title=Dr Who man lands at city's Red Planet office |publisher=WalesOnline |date=2007-02-21 |accessdate=2011-01-29}}
In 2017, Winstone was appointed the head of BBC Studios' Head of Drama - Wales.{{cite web |title=Simon Winstone joins BBC Studios as Head of Drama - Wales |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/studios-drama-wales |website=BBC Media Centre |accessdate=12 December 2019}} In 2019, Winstone served as an Executive Producer on Amazon Prime and BBC Two's Good Omens.{{cite web |title=Good Omens {{!}} Cast and Crew |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/good_omens/cast_crew/ |website=British Comedy Guide |accessdate=12 December 2019}}
He has written for crime drama Death in Paradise and period drama Dickensian, as well as served as an executive producer on the action-adventure series Hooten & the Lady, all Red Planet Pictures productions.
References
{{reflist}}
External links
- {{isfdb name|id=Simon_Winstone|name=Simon Winstone}}
- {{IMDb name|id=0935654}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Winstone, Simon}}
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:British science fiction writers
Category:British television writers
Category:British male novelists
Category:British male screenwriters
Category:British television producers
Category:British soap opera writers
Category:British male television writers
{{UK-novelist-stub}}