Stephen Gallagher(I)

Beginning his TV career with two seasons of the BBC's Doctor Who, Stephen Gallagher went on to establish himself as a writer and director of high-end miniseries and prime time episodic television. His credits include gene-splicing thriller Chimera and ITV's science drama series Eleventh Hour starring Patrick Stewart, remade for CBS by Jerry Bruckheimer with lead cast Rufus Sewell and Marley Shelton. For the CBS drama he contributed new episodes alongside adaptations of the original stories. He was series developer and lead writer on NBC's Crusoe and later joined ABC crime show The Forgotten, starring Christian Slater, as writer and co-executive producer. British series work includes anthology show Chillers, period detective drama Murder Rooms, and ten episodes of BBC1 techno-thriller BUGS on which he was also series consultant for three seasons. He adapted and directed his novel Oktober as an ITV miniseries starring Stephen Tompkinson, and contributed feature-length episodes to crime drama Rosemary & Thyme. His two-part story for the BBC's Silent Witness picked up a European Science Award for Best TV Drama. and he worked on Stan Lee's Lucky Man for Sky. His thirteen novels to date include Down River, Rain, and Valley of Lights. He's the creator of Sebastian Becker, Special Investigator to the Lord Chancellor's Visitor in Lunacy, in a period-set series that began with The Kingdom of Bones and The Bedlam Detective and continues in The Authentic William James. Stephen also has numerous credits in audio drama and has seen publication of three collections of his award-winning short fiction.