Pete McTighe

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Pete McTighe
Born Peter McTighe[1]
United Kingdom
Occupation Television writer

Pete McTighe is a British writer who has written for many television productions in the UK and Australia including EastEnders, Crownies, Tricky Business, Winners & Losers and The Doctor Blake Mysteries. McTighe joined the writing team of the Australian soap opera Neighbours in 2006. In 2013, McTighe became head writer for Wentworth, a re-imagining of Prisoner Cell Block H, which began airing from May that year.

Career

McTighe was born in the United Kingdom.[2] McTighe attended a course on writing for soap operas at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, which was run by the supervising script editor for Neighbours.[1] McTighe was invited to join the writing team at Neighbours in 2006.[1] He was later promoted to supervising script editor.[3] The following year, McTighe revealed that Neighbours would be going back to concentrating more on family drama.[3] McTighe wrote the show's 6000th episode, which aired as part of the 25th anniversary on 27 August 2010.[2] In 2012, he was nominated for an Australian Writers Guild Award in the category of Best Television Serial for Episode 6231, which featured Jim Dolan's death.[4]

McTighe wrote scripts for the ABC drama series Crownies and later Tricky Business and the Seven Network drama Winners & Losers.[2][5][6] In 2011, McTighe started writing for the BBC One soap opera EastEnders.[7] The following year it was announced McTighe would be writing scripts for a reimagining of Prisoner Cell Block H called Wentworth.[8] McTighe was the head writer for the first series, writing six of the ten episodes.[2] His pilot script for Wentworth was unveiled to the media in February 2013 to a positive reception.[9][10] Ben Pobjie from The Age called the production "a no-holds-barred triumph".[11] His pilot episode became the most watched non-sport program in subscription television history.[12] Also in 2013, McTighe wrote episodes for the second series of The Doctor Blake Mysteries.[13]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Performance Perspectives". The Rehearsal Room. Archived from the original on 24 June 2008. Retrieved 7 March 2012. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Pete McTighe". Berlin Associates. Retrieved 5 March 2012. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rowe, Darren (14 April 2009). "'Neighbours' going 'back to its roots'". Digital Spy. Hachette Filipacchi UK. Retrieved 7 September 2010. 
  4. ↑ "2012 AWGIE Nominees". Australian Writers Guild Awards. Retrieved 13 July 2012. 
  5. ↑ "Tricky Business". ScreenNSW. Retrieved 9 April 2012. 
  6. ↑ Richey, Anne (19 January 2011). "Crownies – ABC long running drama series is about um.. lawyers". Screen Hub. Retrieved 19 March 2011. 
  7. ↑ "Catch-up: Friday 8th April". BBC. Retrieved 5 March 2012. 
  8. ↑ Knox, David (5 March 2012). "Val Lehman wants to return to Wentworth". TV Tonight. Retrieved 5 March 2012. 
  9. ↑ "Foxtel unveils Prisoner revamp". The Music. 28 February 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2013. 
  10. ↑ Byrnes, Holly (28 February 2013). "Prisoner Remake Makes Underbelly Look Tame". Herald Sun (The Herald and Weekly Times). Retrieved 22 March 2013. 
  11. ↑ Pobjie, Ben (28 February 2013). "Prisoner Reboot A No Holds Barred Triumph". The Age (Fairfax Media). Retrieved 22 March 2013. 
  12. ↑ Knox, David (21 May 2013). "Record Ratings For Wentworth". TV Tonightaccessdate=23 May 2013. 
  13. ↑ Knox, David (16 June 2013). "Cast Returns To Doctor Blake". TV Tonight. Retrieved 16 June 2013. 

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