Paul Rose (journalist)

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Mr. Biffo, real name Paul Rose, was the editor of the Teletext-based video games magazine Digitiser, which ran between 1993 and 2003. He continues to write a monthly column (entitled Biffovision) in Edge.

In more recent times, he has become a scriptwriter for television, working on children's shows such as Barking!, The Worst Witch, Sooty and My Parents Are Aliens, as well as UK soap operas such as Crossroads and EastEnders. He also devised the storyline for the multiple format game Future Tactics. He was nominated for a BAFTA award in 2004 for Best Children's Drama, and has won a Sony Radio Academy Award for his writing on the Christian O'Connell breakfast show on XFM.

He is currently writing for both BBC1 and Channel 4, including sitcoms entitled Now The Weather and Too Much Too Young.

Another pilot from Rose (also entitled Biffovision, and co-written with Tim Moore) - aired on BBC3 in the early hours of the 26th March 2007.

He has recently completed a comedy book entitled Confessions of a Chatroom Freak, due to be published by Friday Books (the vanity publishing subsidiary of The Friday Project) on May 4th 2007. The book features transcripts of online chat sessions between Mr Biffo - who poses as a woman - and unwitting men. The book also features an introduction by Robert Popper.

Rose is married with three children, and lives in North London.

[edit] Controversy

He once managed to provoke complaints over his episode of EastEnders where the character Dirty Den uttered the phrase "Big constables" in a way that implied profanity. (Interview in Retro Magazine)

Perhaps to avoid controversy Edge magazine decided they could not run one of his columns, for fear that it was too much of a personal attack on Sony's Phil Harrison. Edge magazine and Paul came to the compromise of allowing him to post the column on his blog instead.