Maxine Alderton is a British screenwriter, best known for her work on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Maxine Alderton | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Known for | Emmerdale Doctor Who |
Career
editBeginning as a script editor in the mid 2000s, Alderton graduated to writing for the long-running ITV soap opera Emmerdale, writing over 124 episodes since 2013.[1] She won Best Writer at the Royal Television Society Yorkshire Awards in 2017.[2]
She has also written for the first two series of The Worst Witch, and in 2020, contributed the eighth episode of the twelfth series of Doctor Who, "The Haunting of Villa Diodati."[3][4] The episode was set on the night Mary Shelley was inspired to write Frankenstein. She returned to co-write the fourth episode, "Village of the Angels," with Chris Chibnall for the thirteenth series (known as Flux). The episode saw the return of recurring villains, the Weeping Angels. It is the only episode of Flux to be written by someone other than showrunner Chibnall.[5] The episode also featured a mid-credits scene, something unusual for the programme.[6]
Alderton wrote episodes for the fourth and fifth series of Channel 5's period drama All Creatures Great and Small.
References
edit- ^ "Maxine Alderton's TV Diary". Royal Television Society. 11 February 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ "CVs Maxine Alderton" (PDF). casarotto.co.uk. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ "Doctor Who Series 12: writers announced". CultBox. 13 November 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
- ^ "Doctor Who Series 12 Episode 8". BBC. 5 February 2020. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- ^ Laford, Andrea (14 October 2021). "Doctor Who Flux: writers, directors, details announced". Cultbox. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ Jeffery, Morgan (21 November 2021). "Doctor Who's Village of the Angels includes surprise mid-credits scene". Radio Times. Retrieved 22 November 2021.