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Name: Paul Cornell  
   
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Date of Birth: 18th July 1967
   
Place of Birth: UK
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Paul Cornell appearing on Doctor Who Confidential

Paul Cornell (born July 18, 1967) is a British writer best known for his work in television drama as well as Doctor Who fiction. He has written for some popular drama programmes on British television, including the BBC’s Casualty and its spin-off series Holby City, as well as Granada’s ITV soap opera Coronation Street.

Already known in Doctor Who fan circles, Cornell's professional writing career began in 1990 when he was a winner in a young writers’ competition and his entry, Kingdom Come, was produced and screened on BBC Two. Soon after he wrote Timewyrm: Revelation, a novel for the Virgin New Adventures series of Doctor Who novels. Timewyrm: Revelation was a re-working of a serialised fan fiction piece Cornell had penned previously. Several other Doctor Who novels followed.

Cornell then began working for Granada Television, where he wrote for their popular children’s medical drama Children's Ward and created his own children’s series Wavelength for Yorkshire Television, which ran for two series. He made the crossover to working in adult television full-time in 1996, when he was one of the main contributors to Granada’s supernatural soap opera Springhill, which ran for two years on Sky One and later on Channel 4.

After a short stint on Coronation Street, he began working for other production companies, including in 1999 contributing an episode to Red Production Company’s anthology drama series Love in the 21st Century for Channel 4. His episode, entitled Masturbation, starred Ioan Gruffudd as Jack. He was due to be one of the writers on Red Production Company’s planned Queer as Folk spin-off series Misfits, but the series was never made, being abruptly and surprisingly cancelled by Channel 4.

In recent years he has been writing mainly for the BBC, contributing episodes to all three of their regular medical dramas; Casualty, Holby City and the daytime soap opera Doctors. He has also contributed to the 1950s-set Sunday evening prime time drama series Born and Bred and is one of the writers on the 2005 series revival of Doctor Who — he wrote the episode Father's Day.

Outside of television, he has been active in various other media, having written six Doctor Who novels for Virgin Publishing and BBC Books during the 1990s, two Doctor Who audio dramas for Big Finish Productions (with a third reportedly due for release in 2006) and a fully-animated internet-broadcast Doctor Who adventure, Scream of the Shalka (starring Richard E. Grant as the Ninth Doctor) for BBCi in 2003. He has also written two mainstream science-fiction novels, Something More and British Summertime for Gollancz, and various novels, short stories and audio dramas based around a character he created for the New Adventures, Professor Bernice Summerfield, the character whom he later licensed to Big Finish Productions.

He has also co-authored (often working with Keith Topping and Martin Day) several non-fiction books on television, including The Guinness Book of Classic British TV, X-treme Possibilities (a guide to The X-Files), and The Discontinuity Guide (a humorous guide to Doctor Who). (Topping and Day's Doctor Who novel The Devil Goblins of Neptune was also based on an original idea with Cornell.) Cornell's comic strip series, Xtnct, ran in Judge Dredd Megazine.

Cornell is married to Caroline Symcox, who has also written for Big Finish Productions on her own and with Cornell.

Cornell currently describes himself as being both a Christian and a pagan. Spiritual themes are not uncommon in his work (for example his novel Something More). Other familiar references in his work include owls.

Novels

  • Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Revelation (ISBN 0426203607)
  • Doctor Who: Love and War (ISBN 0426203852)
  • Doctor Who: No Future (ISBN 0426204093)
  • Doctor Who: Goth Opera (ISBN 0426204182)
  • Doctor Who: Human Nature (ISBN 0426204433)
  • Doctor Who: Happy Endings (ISBN 0426204700)
  • Doctor Who: The Shadows of Avalon (ISBN 0563555882)
  • Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka (ISBN 0563486198)
  • Bernice Summerfield: Oh No It Isn't! (ISBN 0426205073)
  • Bernice Summerfield: Life During Wartime (editor)
  • Bernice Summerfield: A Life of Surprises (editor)
  • Something More (ISBN 0575072032)
  • British Summertime (ISBN 0575074043)
  • The Uninvited (ISBN 0-7535-0220-8) (novelisation for Virgin of 1997 ITV science-fiction drama serial)

Non-fiction

  • "Avengers" Dossier: The Definitive Unauthorised Guide (ISBN 0863697542) with Martin Day and Keith Topping
  • Licence Denied: Rumblings from the Doctor Who Underground (ISBN 075350104X) (editor)
  • X-treme Possibilities: Irreverant Rummage Through the "X-files" (ISBN 0753502283) with Day and Topping
  • The Discontinuity Guide (ISBN 0426204425) with Day and Topping
  • The Guinness Book of Classic British TV with Day and Topping
  • The New Trek Programme Guide (ISBN 0863699227) with Day and Topping

Audio Plays

  • Doctor Who: Seasons of Fear
  • Doctor Who: The Shadow of the Scourge
  • Bernice Summerfield: Oh No It Isn't!
  • Bernice Summerfield: The Grel Escape
  • Bernice Summerfield: Death and the Daleks

Comics

  • Doctor Who (in Doctor Who Magazine #156, 174, 197-202 & 207, 1990-91, 1993-94)
  • Pan-African Judges (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #44-49, 1993-94)
  • Deathwatch (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 #8-13, 1995-96)
  • XTNCT

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