His episode, entitled Masturbation, starred Ioan Gruffudd as Jack. He made the crossover to working in adult television full-time in 1996, when he was one of the main contributors to Granada's supernatural soap opera Springhill, which ran for two years on Sky One and later on Channel 4.Īfter a short stint on Coronation Street, he began working for other production companies, including contributing an episode in 1999 to Red Production Company's anthology drama series Love in the 21st Century for Channel 4. Several other Doctor Who novels followed, including the award-winning Human Nature.Ĭornell then began working for Granada Television, where he wrote for the popular children's medical drama Children's Ward and created his own children's series Wavelength for Yorkshire Television, which ran for two series.

Timewyrm: Revelation was a reworking of a serialised fan fiction piece Cornell had penned previously for the fanzine Queen Bat. Soon after, he wrote Timewyrm: Revelation, a novel for the Virgin New Adventures series of Doctor Who novels.

For US television, he has contributed an episode to the modern-day set Sherlock Holmes series Elementary.Ĭornell has also written for a number of British comics, as well as Marvel Comics and DC Comics in America, and has had six original novels published in addition to his Doctor Who fiction.Īlready known in Doctor Who fan circles, Cornell's professional writing career began in 1990 when he was a winner in a young writers' competition and his entry, Kingdom Come, was produced and screened on BBC Two. Paul Douglas Cornell (born 18 July 1967) is a British writer best known for his work in television drama as well as Doctor Who fiction, and as the creator of one of the Doctor's spin-off companions, Bernice Summerfield.Īs well as Doctor Who, other British television dramas for which he has written include Robin Hood, Primeval, Casualty, Holby City and Coronation Street. Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom

The Severed Streets by Paul Cornell