Richard Dinnick
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, novelist, comic book writer, audio playwright
Known forThunderbirds Are Go!

Richard Dinnick (born 22 January 1968) is a British screenwriter, novelist, comic book writer, narrative games narrative designer, audio playwright. He is a frequent guest at writing events (including the London Screenwriters' Festival)[1] and such Doctor Who conventions as Gallifrey One[2] as well as San Diego Comic Con.

Dinnick is a member of BAFTA, the Writers Guild of Great Britain and the Royal Television Society and a Patron of the Children's Media Foundation.[3]

Journalism

Dinnick started his writing career on the local newspaper Esher News and Mail in 1986. He then specialised in business journalism, working on publications such as Director (the magazine published by the Institute of Directors) and Real Business as part of their editorial teams.

In the late 1990s, he moved to Internet Magazine. During this time he appeared on numerous TV and radio programmes as well as newspapers and industry web sites talking about internet-related matters.[4][5][6][7] He was also shortlisted for the PPA's PTC New Journalist of the Year Award in 1999.

Later he went on to work on the City desk of the Sunday Express and chaired the Government Committee on Web Design Best Practice in 2002/3.[8]

TV Writing Career

Dinnick is the winner of the 2012 BBC Writersroom opportunity[9] to create a new show and to write for TV on the BBC and went on to write for the CBeebies TV shows Tree Fu Tom and Go Jetters (for which he won a British Screenwriters' Award).

He has worked on developing shows for many companies including NBC and Mind Candy's shelvedMoshi Monsters TV show. He was one of six finalists in a 2014 BBC Academy opportunity to workshop a script for Waterloo Road. In 2015 Dinnick became Head Writer on the new Disney TV show Eena Meena Deeka and in-development action adventure show Captain Extraordinary. He also served as a BAFTA Judge for Children’s Drama in 2013, and Children’s Pre-School Animation in 2019. In between he produced a session for the 2014 Children's Media Conference.

He wrote on the third series of Thunderbirds Are Go! for ITV/Amazon Studios and is developing several ideas for TV. These include the fantasy dramaNever After, primetime crime drama Murder of Crows, workplace drama No Kidding, and The Last Horseman, an urban fantasy series.[10] He is working on a web series for Capital City Entertainment, Light & Shadows (a.k.a.Dead Good). He also has a prime time TV crime drama in development with Chrysalis Vision, named "Surface Tension".

Doctor Who

Dinnick has written prose, scripts and comics for the BBC's Doctor Who, starting with a short story in the Short Trips series from Big Finish. He went on to write "The Underwater War" for Doctor Who: Alien Adventures, published by BBC Children's Books in 2010. BBC Books published his tie-in collectionDoctor Who Myths & Legends in June 2017 and he contributed to the Missy themed anthology - also from BBC Books - entitled 'The Missy Chronicles' published in 2018.[11] He has also written Doctor Who comics for IDW and BBC Magazines. He was appointed the lead writer on Titan Comics' Twelfth Doctor line of comics as well as the San Diego Comic Con exclusive, "The Last Action Figure" and a story for the Seventh Doctor collection with art supplied by Jessica Martin. He has written eight minibooks for the Doctor Who series from Running Press and served as Narrative Designer on a VR Game for the show in 2020.

Worldwide Franchises

Most recently, Dinnick has been writing for Disney's Star Wars short stories in the pages of the official magazine, Star Wars Insider, with two publihsed so far (in 2022 and 2023). He has also written for MGM's Stargate and has adapted the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, including The Hound of the Baskervilles, for CD release. He has since gone on to write books and short stories for Penguin UK, Titan Publishing, Black Library, Running Press and Snow Books.

His Own Creations

An original graphic novel - Rob - was published in 2019 by Legendary Entertainment and WEBTOON alongside titles by Jessica Chobot and John Barrowman.[12]

Recently his SF story, Last Line, was picked up by Aftershock Comics and it is being developed as a TV show. According to his website, he has other series in the pipeline.


Comics

According to his website he is also writing several unannounced comic book projects for publishers that are yet to be confirmed.

Non-fiction

Dinnick has written a number of non-fiction works:

As editor:

Honours & awards

References

  1. ^ "Richard-dinnick | London Screenwriters' Festival".
  2. ^ "The Conventions – Gallifrey One 2022". 10 May 2013.
  3. ^ "Patrons".
  4. ^ Wood, Greg (26 August 1999). "Racing: Courses dig deep for Internet gold". The Independent. London.
  5. ^ "Internet as propaganda weapon". BBC News. 7 April 1999.
  6. ^ Interview with Dinnick at the Web Developers' Journal
  7. ^ Dinnick wrote a column for Net Imperative
  8. ^ Dinnick authored the consultation document "Quality Framework for UK Government Website Design: Usability issues for government websites"
  9. ^ opportunity
  10. ^ "Richard Dinnick - The Agency | | The Agency". theagency.co.uk. Archived from the original on 17 November 2017.
  11. ^ Scott, Cavan; Magrs, Paul; Rayner, Jac; Goss, James; Anghelides, Peter (22 February 2018). Doctor Who: The Missy Chronicles. ISBN 978-1785943232.
  12. ^ "LINE Webtoon and Legendary Comics Expand Partnership with Three New Titles, Including Actor John Barrowman's Fantasy Series Cursed". 17 November 2017.

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