Bede is a BAFTA-winning writer, showrunner and Executive Producer for television drama and young-adult. For young-adult and children’s, Bede was co-creator, lead-writer and Executive Producer for two seasons of the original BAFTA-winning children’s horror drama series Creeped Out (with co-writer Robert Butler) for CBBC/DHX, which Netflix picked up the worldwide streaming rights for. The series won the Best Drama Children’s BAFTA 2019. Bede was previously lead writer and Executive Producer for the hit teen mystery-drama Disney’s The Evermoor Chronicles, having written 21 x 30-minute episodes across two seasons. He has also guest-written over a number of other series.
For adult drama, Bede is currently developing original projects with Various Artists, Firebird Pictures, Double Dutch, Paradise Media and Lime Pictures. Bede’s first original series was the six-part BBC comedy-drama Shelfstackers, which he also associate-produced. Bede also wrote and created the Sky romantic-comedy single film Officially Special starring Katherine Parkinson, which aired as part of the Love Matters season. His other broadcast drama credits include a core-writer deal on Channel 4’s Hollyoaks, Hollyoaks Later and Holby City for BBC1.
| Awards: | |
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| BAFTA AWARD: WINNER | Creeped Out Season 2: Best Drama Series at the children’s awards (2019) Writer/Co-Creator/Executive Producer |
| Television credits (broadcast): | |
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| Untitled SVOD commission | Lead-writer and Executive Producer (2023) |
| Hollyoaks | Lime Pictures / Channel 4 Writer for the Channel 4 teen soap (2023) |
| The Unloved | Paradise Media / ZDF Germany Lead-writer and Executive Producer on forthcoming hi-concept 60’ drama series (2022) |
| Strikeback – Series 8 | Left Bank Pictures / Sky / HBO In the writers’ room for season 8 of the prime-time action-drama series (2019) |
| Creeped Out – Series 2 | CBBC / DHX / Netflix Original spooky children’s anthology series – 10 x 30 minute episodes Writer/Co-Creator/Executive Producer Winner of the Best Drama Children’s BAFTA (2019) Nominated for Best Children’s or Youth Fiction Programme or Series at the Canadian Screen Awards (2020) |
| Creeped Out – Series 1 | CBBC / DHX / Netflix Original spooky children’s anthology series – 13 x 30 minute episodes Writer/Co-Creator/Executive Producer Nominated for WGGB Screenwriting Award (2019) Nominated for British Screenwriting Award (2019) Nominated for Best Children’s Drama at Royal Television Society Awards (2019) Nominated for New Series at Kidscreen Awards (2019) |
| So Awkward – Series 5 | Writer of 1 x 30-minute episode for the children’s comedy-drama series (2018) |
| The Evermoor Chronicles – Series 2 | Lime Pictures / Disney Lead Writer and Executive Producer for the second season of the hit teen mystery-drama series – 12 x 30’ episodes (2015- 2016) Writer of 6 x 30′ scripts for the second season & Executive Producer Shown in 160 countries around the world |
| Holby City | BBC Drama Writer for the medical drama series 1 x 60 minute episode |
| The Evermoor Chronicles – Series 1 | Lime Pictures / Disney Lead Writer and Executive Producer for the first season of the hit teen mystery-drama series – 24 x 30’ episodes (2014 – 2015) Writer of 2-hour pilot episode premiered on The Disney Channel US/UK Writer of 15 x 30’ scripts for the first season & Executive Producer Shown in 160 countries around the world |
| So Awkward – Series 1 | Writer of 3 x 30-minute episodes for the children’s comedy-drama series (2015) |
| Strange Hill High – Series 2 | CBBC Writer for the second series of the comedy puppet series (2014) 1 x 30 minute episode |
| Rocket’s Island – Series 2 | Lime Pictures / CBBC Writer of 1 x 30-minute episode for the second series of the children’s fantasy-drama (2014) |
| Officially Special | Channel X / Sky Comedy Workplace comedy single set in the miscellaneous department of the Book of World Records starring Katherine Parkinson (TX March 2013) Creator, writer and associate producer |
| Hank Zipzer – Series 1 | Kindle Entertainment / CBBC Writer for the children’s comedy series based on the books by Henry Winkler 2 x 30 minute episodes commissioned (2013) |
| Hollyoaks | Lime Pictures / Channel 4 Core writer for the popular Channel 4 teen soap (2011-2013) 15 episodes commissioned |
| Hollyoaks Later | Lime Pictures / E4 60-minute episode for the late-night spin-off series (2012) |
| House of Anubis – Series 3 | Lime Pictures / Nickelodeon Core writer for the third season of the hit children’s teen mystery series Nominated for People’s Choice Award at Children’s BAFTAs (2012) |
| House of Anubis – Series 2 | Lime Pictures / Nickelodeon Core writer for the second season of the hit children’s teen mystery series |
| Shelfstackers | Conker Media / BBC Switch 6 x 30-minute sitcom about a group of teenagers working at a supermarket (2010) Creator, lead-writer and Associate Producer |
| My Family | DLT Entertainment / BBC1 Table writer for series ten of the family sitcom (2010) |
| Original television series (in active development): | |
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| Rule of Three | Various Artists TV Original 60′ adult-drama series (under option) Writer/Creator |
| Cicada | Firebird Pictures 60-minute drama series about a woman searching for her missing boyfriend in Australia (Writer/Creator) |
| Disquietitude | Double Dutch Original 60′ relationship-mystery-drama-series (treatment commissioned) Writer/Creator |
| The Initiated | Paradise Media / Otherama Original drama series Writer/Creator/Co-Producer |
| The Badness | Lime Pictures / Otherama Original 45′ supernatural series (pilot script commissioned) Writer/Creator/Co-Producer |
| Haze | 60′ drama series following the students and residents of a small coastal university town – Writer/Creator |
| Original television series (previously in development): | |
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| 500 Page Suicide Note | Big Talk Productions Original 60′ YA-drama series (Writer/Creator) |
| Middle Man | Bronte Film & Television Australian-set comedy-drama series (Writer/Creator) |
| Bad Mum | Lime Pictures Original drama series (Writer/Creator) |
| The Psychopath Next Door | ITV Studios / Sky Living Development work for proposed drama-thriller series created by Julie Rutterford and starring Anna Friel (2014) |
| The Chocolatier | Lime Pictures Victorian-set period drama about two rival family chocolate firms (Writer/Co-Creator) |
| Little Ships | Lime Pictures Period drama series about the Dunkirk landings (Writer/Co-Creator) |
| The Key Guy | ITV Studios 60-minute comedy-drama about a sixth form facilities manager who is seduced into renting college spaces out after hours |
| Peckham Knights | Hat Trick / Channel 4 Sitcom following the lives of four vigilante do-gooders in south-east London Co-written with Ian Curtis |
| The Way of Ian | Kudos Film & Television Sitcom about a young man down on his luck who starts a religion to rejuvenate his life |
| On the Side | Sprout Pictures Contemporary sitcom which follows two ‘kept people’ – one girl, one guy – who have been set up by their older lovers in the same building |
| My Feminine Side | Sprout Pictures Comedy about a quintessential ‘bloke’ and shameless objectifier of women who inherits an awkward, lumpy 11 year-old girl |
| Separation Anxiety | Carnival Film & Television Comedy about what happens when your parents decide they want to be happy, rather than married |
| Friends in Low Places | Carnival Film & Television A comedy about being lead astray |
| Failure is an Option | The Comedy Unit The adventures of a crap cop and a hackneyed crime writer Winner of the John Grange Cup for comedy (Player-Playwrights) |
| Land of the Blind | High concept comedy where giant plants and humans live side by side |
| Dula | Bonafide UK Feature-comedy about a male dula |
| Awards: | |
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| The Last Laugh | BBC3 Winner of Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran’s round of the BBC’s televised sitcom-writing competition (2005) |