Howard Overman is a television writer who has written scripts for serial dramas such as Hotel Babylon, New Tricks, Hustle, Harley Street and Merlin.
He created the series Misfits which won the 2010 BAFTA Television Award for Best Drama Series.[1]
He also created the police-procedural comedy Vexed and Dirk Gently, a pilot adaptation of Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency for BBC4.