Gaby Chiappe Writer
Film
2021 DARK MATTER Wildgaze / BBC Films Adaptation of novel by Michelle Paver. In development. Francis Lee attached to direct.
2020 MISBEHAVIOUR Left Bank / Pathe Credited re-write. Directed by Philippa Lowthorpe and starring Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Keeley Hawes and Greg Kinnear, released March 2020.
2017 THEIR FINEST Wildgaze / Number 9 Films / BBC Films Adaptation of Orange Prize longlisted novel by Lissa Evans. Directed by Lone Scherfig. Cast: Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin and Bill Nighy. Selected for a Spotlight screening at Sundance. Selected for The Brit List 2014. Nominated for Best Debut Screenplay, BIFAs 2017.
Television
2021 THE BEAST MUST DIE Scott Free/ New Regency/ Britbox Forthcoming 5 part TV adaptation of novel by Cecil Day-Lewis writing as Nicholas Blake. Directed by Dome Karukoski. Starring Jared Harris, Cush Jumbo and Nathaniel Parker.
BORDER Element Pictures Adaptation of short story as TV series.
2020 MEL: ISOLATION SHORT Jeff Pope / ITV Studios / ITV 1 15 minute short filmed in isolation, starring Sheridan Smith, Tx May 2020.
2019 PETTY TREASON Kindle Entertainment Original TV series. Script commissioned.
2018 WAKE STV Original TV series co-created and co-written with Alex Perrin. In development.
2016 THE LEVEL Hillbilly TV / ITV Original 6 part TV series co-created and co-written with Alex Perrin. “fast-paced fun as the south coast brightens up TV noir” Guardian “A taut thriller with a flawed but sympathetic young heroine at its heart” Express “The cast, the well-crafted script and the production all come together brilliantly” Crime Time Preview
2013-15 SHETLAND ITV Studios / BBC1 One 2 x 60 min episode series 1, storylining and three x 60 min episodes series 2. Winner of TV Drama Award, nominated for Film/TV Writer Award at British Academy Scotland Awards 2016.
2012-13 THE PARADISE BBC 1 One episode series 1, two episodes series 2.
2011-12 VERA ITV Studios/ITV1 One episode series 2, one episode series 3.
2007-9 LARK RISE TO CANDLEFORD BBC 1 Six episodes commissioned, series 1, 2 & 3.
2007-9 SURVIVORS BBC 1 Two episodes commissioned, series 1 & 2.
2005-7 CASUALTY BBC 1 Four episodes, one re-write.
2005 FUNLAND BBC 3 One episode commissioned.
2003-5 BORN AND BRED BBC 1 Three episodes, series 3 & 4.
2002-5 HOLBY CITY BBC 1 Four episodes, including Casualty@HolbyCity Christmas Special.
2002-4 EASTENDERS BBC 1 Nine episodes.
2000-3 DOCTORS BBC 1 Seven episodes over series 1-5.
1997-02 FAMILY AFFAIRS Talkback Thames/Five Forty nine episodes.
1987-93 Trouble and Strife Theatre Company Co-writer of ‘Now and at the Hour of Death’ and ‘Next to you I Lie’.