Script Writer
Neil was selected from hundreds of submissions for the BBC Writers’ Access Group 2023–25. He creates authentic, character-driven comedy drama that challenges perceptions around disability without ever reducing characters to stereotypes.
Neil doesn’t write disability stories. He writes human stories: rich, funny, flawed, and real. His work centres disabled characters as they exist in life, fully rounded, emotionally complex, and unforgettable.
At a moment when audiences and broadcasters are asking for storytelling that feels both truthful and bold, Neil’s work entertains first, then quietly shifts how we see the world.
Portfolio
TV Projects in Development
DARLING HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN
Developed as part of BBC Writers Access Group 2023 – 25
6x 60-minute episode series
Logline: When a young actor with a physical disability returns to volunteer at the children’s hospital where he was once a patient, he discovers that making sick children laugh might be his true calling, if he can first heal the trauma from his past.
Tone: Call the Midwife meets Patch Adams in 1980s Britain. A heartwarming yet unflinching drama that finds hope, humour, and healing in the most unlikely places.
D-MOB: The Rose and Crown Affair
D-MOB are a crew of underestimated outsiders who weaponise their invisibility and society’s misconceptions to beat the system at its own game. Opening Arc: The Rose and Crown Affair – A two episode story launching the wider D-MOB series. Following the opening arc, each episode presents a new case where D-Mob step in to help those society has failed.
6x 60-minute drama series
Logline: A wheelchair-using pub landlady has left her criminal past firmly behind her. But when she is forced back into crime to save the community she loves, she hides the truth of who she used to be from the only man who has ever truly loved her. As he works undercover to find the criminal mastermind, he has no idea she is the one pulling the strings.
Tone: Emotionally rich, character-led drama about identity, trust, and the cost of being truly known.
COSTUMES OPTIONAL
6x 30-minute single-camera comedy series
Logline: When an overly earnest lifeguard takes a job at an upscale spa, his desperate need for rules, systems, and personal boundaries collides spectacularly with a world designed to dissolve all three.
Tone: Peep Show meets Friday Night Dinner in a setting where everyone’s naked except him. Grounded, awkward, and uncomfortably honest about bodies, class, and the terrifying freedom of letting it all hang out.
THE RETREAT
6x 30-minute dark comedy-drama series
Alongside the TV series, a trilogy of novels has been written. Book One mirrors the first series, while Books Two and Three extend the characters’ journeys to a satisfying, circular resolution.
Logline: When broke actress Zara accidentally becomes the spiritual guru at an exclusive Mediterranean retreat, she discovers that faking enlightenment might be the most honest thing she’s ever done.
Tone: Fleabag meets The White Lotus with the emotional honesty of This Way Up
SMALL PEOPLE
6x 30-minute family comedy-drama
Logline: When single dad Leo’s ex-wife abandons their teenage kids to move to Australia with her new boyfriend, this 4’5″ animation producer must navigate the towering challenges of full-time parenting. Literally and figuratively.
Tone: Outnumbered meets Motherland with the heart of Trying and a dash of Derry Girls bite.
NAKED
1 x 45-minute standalone drama – developed for Channel 5’s Drama of the Week slot
A 45-minute stage play version is set to preview in autumn 2026, with plans to tour the fringe circuit in 2027.
Logline: Two childhood sweethearts reconnect at university: she, an art student asks him, a physically disabled childhood friend to pose for her final project. Over the course of one intense week at her family’s rural retreat, both are stripped bare, emotionally and physically, as they confront what it means to be truly seen.
Tone: Emotionally rich, intimate, and quietly devastating. Echoes the honesty of Educating Rita and the emotional intimacy of Normal People. A two-hander about shame, beauty, and the courage it takes to be truly seen.
No one else is creating work like this: Inclusive, funny, and emotionally sharp, Neil’s work draws audiences in first, then changes how they see the world.
Selected Broadcast Credits
Alongside his authored drama work, Neil has written and directed across a wide range of broadcast genres, including comedy, children’s television, animation, education, and training films.
B@IT & Nasty Neighbours – Mother’s Best Child
Comedy shorts for Channel 4’s online offerings, with one sketch having over 6 million views on Facebook
Training Films – Various
Wrote several comedy / drama based training films and for a variety of clients, including The Samaritans, Demand, Nuffield Trust.
Inside Maths – Teachers TV
Seven-part maths series for GCSE students mixing real life problems with a graphic rich studio.
Just So Darwin – CBeebies & BBC Learning
Script edited and wrote one of the 13 BAFTA nominated episodes.
Telling Tales – BBC Learning
Script edited the ten x 5-minute animation series and wrote 2 episodes based on tradition fairy tales each given a modern spin.
Thomas the Tank Engine – HIT Entertainment
Episode writer on Thomas the Tank Engine.
Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults – BVS Traing
Wrote this 40-minute training video covering the sensitive issue of elder abuse.
BBC Jam Maths
Wrote 11 song and dance numbers mixing live action performances and animated sequences.
Steady Eddie – Contender / E1 Entertainment
Wrote 10 x 15 minute animated stories, starring the lovable lorry Steady Eddie based on Eddie Stobart Trucks.
KnowledgeBox – Pearson Broadband
85 x 5 minute videos for Primary School English Key Stage 1 & 2. Included studio interviews, drama workshops, and performances
Beachcomber Bay – Channel 5
Wrote 20 x 25 min episodes over two series of this pre-school puppet programme.
Numbertime – BBC Schools
Wrote song and dance numbers for this BBC series on counting. (over 3 series)
Pony Tales & Fire Engine Fred – Contender / E1 Entertainment
Creator of 2 animated story videos for 3-6 year olds, voiced by Hugh Laurie and Joanna Lumley.
Megamaths – BBC Schools
Co-wrote two series of ten x 20 min studio based maths programmes for 7 – 9 year olds. Japan Prize nominated and RTS award winning first series.
The Friday Show – BBC Children’s
Sketch writer for Dick and Dom on this weekly children’s comedy series.
Hotch Potch House – BBC Schools
Wrote 17 x five-minute sketches for this puppet-based series for 3 – 5 year olds.
The Case of the Missing Head – BBC Schools
Wrote this 20 minute comedy drama on diaries and notebooks, in the English Express Series.
Square One Television – BBC Schools
Wrote mini-drama and comedy scetches. Co-production with Children’s Television Workshop, New York and the BBC.
Numbersplus – BBC Schools
Wrote 3 episode of this studio-based comedy series on counting for 5 – 7 year olds.