Paul is an experienced writer for film and television. One of the UK's leading writers of children's TV, he is the co-creator of 4 O'Clock Club, Dani's House and Dani's Castle for CBBC.
He has also written extensively for adults - including Sky One's Stella, and EastEnders. He has a number of projects in development across film and television, for both adults and children. Previously, he has written sitcom pilots starring the likes of Dylan Moran, Maxine Peake, Mark Heap, Marc Wootton and Ingrid Oliver.
He has twice been nominated for a BAFTA - once for My Parents Are Aliens, and again for 4 O'Clock Club - and won a Sony Radio Academy Award for his work on the Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show. In 2015, his Christmas special for the 4 O'Clock Club won Best Children's Fiction at the Royal Television Society Awards.
In a previous life, Paul was one of the UK's top video games journalists, editing the legendary teletext video games magazine Digitiser, and writing a monthly column in Edge magazine.
Paul has spoken about writing in schools and on panels. You can watch him talk about writing for children here.
And here he is talking about deadlines.
He has also written extensively for adults - including Sky One's Stella, and EastEnders. He has a number of projects in development across film and television, for both adults and children. Previously, he has written sitcom pilots starring the likes of Dylan Moran, Maxine Peake, Mark Heap, Marc Wootton and Ingrid Oliver.
He has twice been nominated for a BAFTA - once for My Parents Are Aliens, and again for 4 O'Clock Club - and won a Sony Radio Academy Award for his work on the Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show. In 2015, his Christmas special for the 4 O'Clock Club won Best Children's Fiction at the Royal Television Society Awards.
In a previous life, Paul was one of the UK's top video games journalists, editing the legendary teletext video games magazine Digitiser, and writing a monthly column in Edge magazine.
Paul has spoken about writing in schools and on panels. You can watch him talk about writing for children here.
And here he is talking about deadlines.
