Tony Basgallop

Basgallop wrote an episode of Children's Ward, which aired on ITV. In 1998 he wrote an episode of Casualty, called "Toys and Boys", in series 13. The episode was watched by 12.58 million viewers.{{cite web | url=http://www.barb.co.uk/viewing/weekly-top-30 | title=BARB Top 30s}} In 2000, he wrote the crime drama Summer in the Suburbs, which was directed by David Attwood.{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/05_may/19/earth.shtml | title=William Golding's 'To The Ends of the Earth' – starts Wednesday 6 July at 9.00pm on BBC TWO | work=BBC | date=19 May 2005 | access-date=20 October 2013}}{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/1999/nov/25/tvandradio.television3 | title=The price is right | work=The Guardian | date=25 November 1999 | access-date=20 October 2013 | location=Rodger, Jennifer}}

Between 1996 and 2002, Basgallop wrote forty-four EastEnders episodes. His first episode aired on 21 October 1996 and last one on 3 December 2002. In 2001, he wrote the first episode of The Residents, and the comedy short It's Not You, It's Me. In 2004, he wrote an episode of Outlaws called The Soft Spot. In 2003 and 2004, he wrote two episodes of Teachers.

He worked again with David Attwood on an adaptation of William Golding's trilogy set on a British sea voyage to Australia. It was known as To the Ends of the Earth (2005). Basgallop worked on three of its episodes after the death of its original writer, Leigh Jackson.{{cite book|author=Sue Parrill|title=Nelson's Navy in Fiction and Film: Depictions of British Sea Power in the Napoleonic Era|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ekt4aEv5dTcC&pg=PA298|year=2009|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-5803-5|pages=298}} Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, the miniseries was nominated for two awards. The first award was the Golden FIPA for TV Series and Serials, and the second was the BAFTA TV Award for Best Drama Serial.

Basgallop wrote the TV movie The Good Housekeeping Guide (2006) and a year later, Confessions of a Diary Secretary (2007).{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/mar/01/uk.television | title=Relentlessly coarse and stupid | work=The Guardian | date=1 March 2007 | access-date=20 October 2013 | author=White, Michael}} In 2008, he wrote Hughie Green, Most Sincerely for BBC Four.{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/hughiegreenmostsincerely/ | title=Hughie Green, Most Sincerely | work=BBC | access-date=20 October 2013}} The movie was nominated for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Short Form TV Drama.

Basgallop was the creator of Hotel Babylon, which first aired in 2006 and ended in 2009.{{cite book|author=Christian Bosseno|title=Télévision française La saison 2010: Une analyse des programmes du 1er septembre 2008 au 31 août 2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oD2eOizYbdYC&pg=PA233|date=1 May 2010|publisher=Editions L'Harmattan|isbn=978-2-296-25961-4|pages=233}} He wrote Moonshot in 2009.{{cite book|author=Alvin H. Marill|title=Movies Made for Television: 2005–2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k8XJ6UcCumYC&pg=PA66|date=11 October 2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7659-0|pages=66}}{{cite book|author=Vincent Terrace|title=The Year in Television 2009: A Catalog of New and Continuing Series, Miniseries, Specials and TV Movies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GoKJZanh6TsC&pg=PA116|year=2010|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-5644-4|pages=116}} In 2010, his episode of Being Human aired. In the same year, the television drama film Worried About the Boy was released, which was written by Basgallop.{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/05_may/10/boy2.shtml | title=Worried About The Boy – interview with writer Tony Basgallop | work=BBC | date=10 May 2010 | access-date=20 October 2013}} Rachel Cooke, writing in the New Statesman questioned whether he intended his script to be as funny as it turned out.{{cite book|title=New Statesman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Eg4fAQAAMAAJ|year=2010|publisher=New Statesman Limited}} Basgallop wrote three of the episodes of Sirens on Channel 4, all airing in 2011. In 2012, he wrote Inside Men.{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/jul/07/bbc-1-inside-men | title=BBC1 drama Inside Men to reunite Luther actors | work=The Guardian | date=7 July 2011 | access-date=20 October 2013 | author=Conlan, Tara}}

In 2013, he wrote What Remains, which was longlisted for the drama category of the National Television Awards.{{cite news | url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a515890/national-television-awards-2014-voting-opens-the-full-longlist.html | title=National Television Awards 2014 voting opens: The full longlist | work=Digital Spy | date=17 September 2013 | access-date=10 October 2013 | author=Fletcher, Alex}} What Remains was the first whodunit that Basgallop had written; in the past he had avoided detective dramas.{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/whatremains/ | title=What Remains | work=BBC | date=14 August 2013 | access-date=20 October 2013}}

The following year, two episodes of 24: Live Another Day written by Basgallop were broadcast on Fox, beginning his work in the States. He would then return for 24: Legacy in 2017. He has also written for Outcast, the American version of Resurrection and Berlin Station. In April 2016, it was reported that Basgallop was writing a pilot for the sci-fi thriller series Prototype.{{Cite web|last=Mitovich|first=Matt Webb|date=2016-04-12|title=Matt's Inside Line: Scoop on Grey's, Bones, Flash, Grimm, Arrow and More!|url=https://tvline.com/2016/04/12/greys-anatomy-season-12-callie-arizona-spoilers/|access-date=2021-02-09|website=TVLine|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last=Andreeva|first=Nellie|date=2016-03-11|title=Cote de Pablo Poised To Star In Syfy Pilot 'Prototype'|url=https://deadline.com/2016/03/cote-de-pablo-star-syfy-pilot-prototype-ncis-1201718423/|access-date=2021-02-09|website=Deadline|language=en-US}} In August 2016, Deadline Hollywood reported that Syfy had passed on the series.{{Cite web|last=Andreeva|first=Nellie|date=2016-08-01|title='Prototype' Sci-Fi Thriller Drama Pilot Not Going Forward At Syfy, Being Shopped|url=https://deadline.com/2016/08/prototype-pilot-dead-syfy-sci-fi-thriller-shopped-ucp-1201796759/|access-date=2021-02-09|website=Deadline|language=en-US}}

Most recently, Basgallop has been credited as the creator and writer for the series Servant on Apple TV+ and The Consultant on Amazon Prime Video.

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