Also playwright. Plays include romantic comedy Kiss Me Like You Mean It (Soho Theatre 2001) which has had a number of productions around the world and Gaffer (Southwark Playhouse/York Theatre Royal 2004), an acclaimed and controversial "play for one actor" about a gay football manager.
As the new executive producer and writer of Doctor Who (2005), one of his first acts was to cast Jodie Whittaker, an actress he had worked with on Broadchurch (2013), as the first woman to play the Doctor, thereby transforming the character from a Time Lord into a Time Lady.
I used to write plays and go along to the theatre to watch them being performed. With Broadchurch (2013), I've got that same kind of fear, and I've never had that with any other TV show.