Ed Hime

Hime was born in 1978 in London. He was a fan of Doctor Who in his youth. He began his career as a playwright in 1998, releasing the play About the Boy that same year.^[2][3] Other plays he had written included Small Hours (at Hampstead Theatre), as well London Falls and London Tongue at the Old Red Lion Theatre.^[4] He also worked in radio, winning the 2007 Prix Italia award for Best Original Radio Drama for his radio play, The Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body.^[5][6]

On television, Hime has written for the fourth and fifth series of the teen drama Skins. Hime was attached to work on a new series of Sapphire & Steel with Luther creator Neil Cross.^[7] However, the project was never produced.^[8]

In 2018, he wrote the ninth and penultimate episode of the eleventh series of Doctor Who, It Takes You Away.^[9][10] He returned to write the third episode of the twelfth series, Orphan 55.^[11] He co-wrote the seventh episode of The Watch,^[12] which is inspired by the Ankh-Morpork City Watch from the Discworld series of fantasy novels by Terry Pratchett. He wrote three of the eight episodes^[13] of Lockwood & Co., the Netflix series about teenage ghost hunters released in 2023.