Tom Needham is a BAFTA nominated writer for television and theatre. He has over a hundred broadcast commissions amounting to eighty plus hours of television. He is the winner of an RTS Award for Retrace 1997 and was BAFTA nominated in 2010.

TELEVISION

2021

POPPY                              Treatment for 12 x 1 hour drama series co-written with Ace Bhatti

2014 – 2015 

RED ROCK                        Element Pictures

CRITICAL                           Hat Trick, Sky, Jed Mercurio

2012—2013  

CASUALTY 2 x 50’             BBC

2011—2012   

EASTENDERS 5 x 30’       BBC

1989—2010  

THE BILL                              Talkback Thames

65 x 30’, 60’, 90’ episodes

2005—2008  

COLD BLOOD                      Granada

2000 – 2005  

MIT, Series I                          Talkback Thames

THE BILL                               Talkback Thames

DALZIEL & PASCOE             BBC

SILENT WITNESS                 BBC

THIN ICE                                BBC

1990 – 1998 

RETRACE Series  & I & II       Yorkshire TV

DANGERFIELD                       BBC

THE ACCUSED                       Yorkshire TV

WYCLIFFE                               ITV

CRAZY FOR YOU

CASUALTY                              BBC

EMMERDALE                          Yorkshire TV

TRAINER                                 BBC

VIRTUAL MURDER                 BBC

HOWARDS’ WAY                     BBC

DEVELOPMENT, Television

2018 POPPY with Ace Bhatti

DEVELOPMENT, Theatre

Current SAY AGAIN?

DEVELOPMENT, Film

2018 THE LAST FISHERMAN with Ace Bhatti

RADIO

2023 THE CITADEL Series 9 with Michael Harris

2021 THE CITADEL Series 8 with Chris Reason

2020 THE CITADEL Series 7 with Chris Reason

THEATRE

2018

BLINDFOLD                                      Clap Trap Theatre

2016

IMPACT                                            Clap Trap Theatre

2013      

BILLY WITH HIS BOOTS ON           Middlechild Theatre

THE RAPE QUEEN                          Clap Trap Theatre

2011      

FRANKENSTEIN live                     Angus & Ross Theatre Company

2010      

THE WRECKERS                           Clap Trap Theatre

Teaching/Lecturing 

Leeds Beckett University; TAPS; Leeds University; College of Ripon & York St John; Northern School of Screen and Television