Pete McTighe

Pete McTighe is a British screenwriter and producer. He was the originating writer of prison drama series Wentworth, writing most of the first season and key episodes of subsequent seasons. The show ran for nine years, sold to hundreds of countries internationally and won dozens of awards including Most Outstanding and Most Popular Drama at the AACTA and Logie Awards. He is the creator and writer of the BBC1 mystery thriller series The Pact and has written and/or Executive Produced various television productions in the UK and internationally, including Doctor Who, The War Between The Land And The Sea, The Rising, A Discovery of Witches, Glitch and Nowhere Boys. McTighe has received five Australian Writers Guild Award and one Welsh BAFTA nomination for his work.