Ed Whitmore

{{short description|British screenwriter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Ed Whitmore''' is a British screenwriter. He has written for a number of successful British TV series such as ''Waking the Dead'' and ''Silent Witness''. In 2022, he was nominated for a BAFTA for his work on the second season of ITV true crime drama ''Manhunt''. Whitmore is an alumnus of Westfield College.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/rillington-place/whitmore-malone|title = Interview with ed Whitmore and Tracey Malone}}</ref>

==Career== In 2003 he wrote the ''Waking The Dead'' episode "Multistorey", which won the show an Emmy for Best International Drama Series. He adapted the book ''Hallam Foe'' into a critical well received film, for which he was subsequently nominated at the Moët et Chandon British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) for Best Screenplay,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://bifa.org.uk/nominations/2007 |title=2007 Nominations, BIFA. |access-date=2010-11-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923185103/http://www.bifa.org.uk/nominations/2007 |archive-date=2015-09-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> as well as the BAFTA-winning ''Sea of Souls'', for which he won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Episode in a TV Series. He created and wrote ITV drama ''Identity'', which was aired on British TV in the summer of 2010; the remake rights were then sold to the ABC Network in America.

He later wrote episodes of ''CSI'' and ''Strike Back'', as well as the miniseries ''Arthur & George'' and ''Rillington Place''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unitedagents.co.uk/ed-whitmore|title = Ed Whitmore | United Agents}}</ref> He wrote and created the ITV drama ''Manhunt'' first shown in the United Kingdom on 6 January 2019, airing on three consecutive nights and ITV's highest rated launch of a new drama series since the first series of Broadchurch in 2013. Whitmore's work on ''Manhunt'' earned him a nomination for the Mystery Writers of America 2020 Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay.

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0926231|name=Ed Whitmore}}

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