Gwyneth Hughes
Gwyneth Hughes is a British documentary director and screenwriter who works mainly in television.
Early life
[edit]She is a former newspaper journalist from the north of England.
Career
[edit]Her credits include the crime drama Five Days, Cherished, a film about the wrongful conviction of Angela Cannings, an adaptation of Charles Dickens's unfinished work The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and The Girl, which explores an alleged obsession Alfred Hitchcock had with the actress Tippi Hedren.[1] Her work on Five Days earned her a nomination at the 2008 Golden Globe Awards.[2] In 2013, she wrote Remember Me, a television drama serial that debuted on the BBC in November 2014.
In 2018, Hughes executive-produced and adapted William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair into a seven-part television mini-series for ITV and Amazon Studios. Hughes wrote the true crime miniseries Honour in 2020, for ITV, Hughes adapted Henry Fielding's novel Tom Jones into a miniseries broadcast on PBS in 2023.[3][4]
In January 2024, ITV broadcast Mr Bates vs The Post Office, Hughes' four-part series about the British Post Office scandal, a miscarriage of justice in which hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted.
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Writer | Executive Producer |
Creator | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996–1997 | The Bill | Yes | No | No | 3 episodes |
| 1997 | Dangerfield | Yes | No | No | 1 episode |
| 1998 | Silent Witness | Yes | No | No | 2 episodes |
| 2000 | The Mrs Bradley Mysteries | Yes | No | No | 1 episode |
| 2000 | Sleeper | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 2002 | Blood Strangers | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 2003 | Peter in Paradise | Yes | No | Yes | TV Movie |
| 2005 | Cherished | Yes | No | Yes | TV Movie |
| 2005 | Beneath the Skin | Yes | No | Yes | TV Movie |
| 2006 | Mysterious Creatures | Yes | No | Yes | TV Movie |
| 2007 | Miss Austen Regrets | Yes | No | Yes | TV Movie |
| 2009 | Hunter | No | No | Yes | |
| 2009 | U Be Dead | Yes | Yes | Yes | TV Movie |
| 2007-2010 | Five Days | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 2012 | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 2012 | The Girl | Yes | No | Yes | TV Movie |
| 2013 | Talking to the Dead | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 2013 | Remember Me | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2016 | Dark Angel | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2018 | Vanity Fair | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2018 | Doing Money | Yes | No | Yes | TV Movie |
| 2020 | Honour | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2021 | Three Families | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2023 | Tom Jones | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2024 | Mr Bates vs The Post Office | Yes | Yes | Yes |
References
[edit]- ^ "The Girl". BBC Media Centre. BBC. 27 November 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
- ^ "Miss Austen Regrets: Writer Gwyneth Hughes". BBC Press Office. BBC. 29 February 2008. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
- ^ Grater, Tom (9 September 2021). "Solly McLeod & Sophie Wilde Starring In 'Tom Jones' Reimagining For Masterpiece, Mammoth Screen & ITV". Deadline.
- ^ Rice, Lynette (28 December 2022). "PBS Reveals 2023 Debut Dates: When To See 'All Creatures Great And Small,' 'Vienna Blood,' 'Tom Jones' And More". Deadline.
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