Neil’s extensive writing credits for adult and kids’ programmes include the multi-award nominated All Creatures Great and Small, multiple series of Waterloo Road, and lead writing the multi-award winning CBBC/Netflix show The Worst Witch, for which he has also received a 2019 WGGB nomination for Best Children’s TV Episode.

He also co-created supernatural drama Bedlam for Sky and has written on a wide range of series for adults and children, across many channels, including  Hollyoaks (C4), Get Even (CBBC/iPlayer), the Emmy Award-winning Free Rein (Netflix), Wolfblood (CBBC), 2 seasons of the award-winning House of Anubis (Nickelodeon) The Evermoor Chronicles and The Lodge (both Disney) as well as the classic series Grange Hill for CBBC, writing the last ever episode.

Neil currently has multiple original projects in commissioned development.

Awards

– Nominated for WGGB Award for Best Children’s TV Episode for The Worst Witch (2019)
– BAFTA-nominated for Best Children’s Drama for a series 3 episode of The Worst Witch (2019)
– BAFTA-nominated 2018 for Best Children’s Drama for a series 2 episode of The Worst Witch (2018)

Recent Credits and Commissions

All Creatures Great and Small Series 6 (Playground/C5) commissioned for 1 episode and 3 rewrites

Backwards Co-Creator – Treatment Option (Lime Pictures)

Charmed Life Creator – Treatment and Script (Lime Pictures)

Scales Creator/Lead Writer/EP – Children’s fantasy adventure series in commissioned development with Lime Pictures and a prominent streamer

Waterloo Road series 11 (BBC) commissioned for 3 episodes

Tour Wars In paid develpment with Lime Pictures

Get Even series 2 (BBC/Netflix)

Other Credits – Adult

Bedlam – Series 1 and 2 – Co-Creator and writer (Sky/BBC America)

Waterloo Road – (BBC1)

Sex and the Chippy – Co Creator and Writer (E4)

Hollyoaks – Written over 70 episodes (C4)

Hollyoaks Later – including first ever late night special. Series 2, 4 and 5 (E4)

Blue Murder: ‘INSIDE’ – Series 5 (Granada/ITV1)

Blue Murder: ‘NOT A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH’ – Series 4 – Feature Length (Granada/ITV1)

The Bill (Talkback Thames/ITV1)

The Courtroom (Mersey TV/C4)

Brookside (Mersey TV/C4)

Brookside: Unfinished Business – Feature length spin-off (Mersey TV)

Other Credits – Children’s 

The Evermoor Chronicles (Disney)

Evermoor Confidential Chronicles – Shortform Spin-off (Disney)

Wolfblood – Series 3-5 (CBBC/ZDF)

Wolfblood Secrets – Wrote entire short form spin-off (CBBC/ZDF)

Wolfblood: Jana Bites – Wrote entire short form spin-off/S3 prequel (CBBC/ZDF)

Rocket’s Island – Series 2 and 3 (CBBC)

House of Anubis – Series 2 and 3 (Nickelodeon)

Grange Hill – Series 26 to 31 (Mersey TV/BBC1)