Chris Chibnall
Production Notes Broadcaster
Life on Mars Series 1 , Episode 7 ( 2006 ) Series 2 , Episode 2 ( 2007 ) BBC One
Torchwood Day One ( 2006 ) Cyberwoman ( 2006 ) Countrycide ( 2006 ) End of Days ( 2007 ) Kiss Kiss , Bang Bang ( 2008 ) Adrift ( 2008 ) Fragments ( 2008 ) Exit Wounds ( 2008 ) BBC Two / BBC Three
Doctor Who 42 ( 2007 ) The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood ( 2010 ) Pond Life ( 2012 series of mini-episodes ) Dinosaurs on a Spaceship ( 2012 ) The Power of Three ( 2012 ) P.S . ( 2012 mini-episode ) The Woman Who Fell to Earth ( 2018 ) The Ghost Monument ( 2018 ) Rosa ( co-written with Malorie Blackman , 2018 ) Arachnids in the UK ( 2018 ) The Tsuranga Conundrum ( 2018 ) The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos ( 2018 ) Resolution ( 2019 ) Spyfall ( 2020 ) Fugitive of the Judoon ( co-written with Vinay Patel , 2020 ) Praxeus ( co-written Pete McTighe , 2020 ) Can You Hear Me ? ( co-written Charlene James , 2020 ) Ascension of the Cybermen / The Timeless Children ( 2020 ) BBC One / BBC Red Button
Law & Order : UK Care ( 2009 ) Vice ( 2009 ) Unsafe ( 2009 ) Paradise ( 2009 ) Samaritan ( 2010 ) Honour Bond ( 2010 ) ITV
United TV Film ( 2011 ) BBC Two
Broadchurch Creator , 24 episodes : Series 1 ( 2013 ) Series 2 ( 2015 ) Series 3 ( 2017 ) ITV
The Great Train Robbery TV Film ( 2013 ) BBC One
Ant & Dec 's Saturday Night Takeaway Who Shot Simon Cowell ? ( 2016 ) ITV
Selected credits
Chris Chibnall (born 1970) is an English television writer and producer, best known as the creator and writer of the award-winning ITV mystery-crime drama Broadchurch (2013-2017). A lifelong fan of the long-running BBC sci-fi Doctor Who, Chibnall has written five episodes of the series under previous showrunners Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat, and was also the head writer for the first two series of the spinoff Torchwood. In 2016, the BBC announced that Chibnall would succeed Moffat to become the showrunner and head writer of Doctor Who, beginning with the eleventh series.