Richard Dinnick

Who is Richard Dinnick?

Richard Dinnick is a British screenwriter, novelist, and audio playwright. He is the winner of the 2012 BBC Writersroom opportunity to create a new show and to write for TV on the BBC and is now writing on the CBeebies TV shows Tree Fu Tom and Go Jetters - amongst others - as well as Mind Candy's new Moshi Monsters TV Show. He was one of six finalists in a recent BBC Academy opportunity to workshop a script for Waterloo Road.

Dinnick is a BAFTA Judge for Children's Drama and is producing a session for the 2014 Children's Media Conference.

He is developing several ideas for TV including a fantasy drama, Never After, for CBBC and a primetime crime drama, Murder of Crows, which is the first of its kind. Richard is currently in pre-production on new web series – Light & Shadows – with Capital City Entertainment as writer/producer.

Dinnick has written prose, scripts and comics for many media properties including MGM’s Stargate and the BBC’s Doctor Who, as well as adapting the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – including The Hound of the Baskervilles – for CD release.