• Interviewee

  Pete McTighe

• Position

  Writer for Doctor Who, 2018-2020

Pete McTighe is a British screenwriter with hundreds of hours of drama output to his name, specialising in genre work and championing LGBTQ+ visibility onscreen.

His credits include Wentworth, The Rising, The Pact, A Discovery of Witches, Clickbait and Glitch. He has received five Australian Writers Guild nominations for his work.

For Doctor Who fans, he’s best known for his scripts Kerblam! and Praxeus (which he co-wrote with CHRIS CHIBNALL). Pete also writes and directs regular short films for BBC Studios to promote classic adventures, featuring the first return of many Doctors and companions to the series including Sophie Aldred ALDRED herself.

In this unique Myth Makers (recorded in front of a live studio audience), Pete chats to Sophie about his career … and his love of Doctor Who!