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Tom Dalton Bidwell (born February 1984) is a British screenwriter and playwright. [1] Early life. Bidwell was born and raised in Leyland, Lancashire and attended Balshaw's Church of England High School.
Tom Bidwell is known for My Mad Fat Diary (2013), Watership Down (2018) and The Irregulars (2021).
- Writer, Producer, Actor
- Tom Bidwell
The Irregulars: Created by Tom Bidwell. With McKell David, Thaddea Graham, Jojo Macari, Harrison Osterfield. Set in Victorian London, the series follows a gang of troubled street teens who are manipulated into solving crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson and his mysterious business partner, the elusive Sherlock Holmes.
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- 2021-03-26
- Crime, Drama, Fantasy
- McKell David, Thaddea Graham, Jojo Macari
- Bea
- Jessie
- Billy
- Spike
- Leopold
The leader of the Irregulars is headstrong, fierce Bea (Thaddea Graham). She may be young, but she's been forced to take care of her younger sister ever since they were kids, and living on the streets meant she had to grow up fast. She'll do whatever it takes to keep her sister safe and their group of friends together — even if that means breaking ...
Jessie (Darci Shaw) is Bea's younger sister and loves Bea just as fiercely as Bea loves her. But that's where their similarities end. While Bea is independent and rough around the edges, Jessie is kind, sensitive... and prone to debilitating nightmares. The group always worries about Jessie's well-being, and that will only get worse as they discove...
The oldest (and biggest) of the Irregulars is Billy (Jojo Macari), who, like Bea, will do anything and everything to protect his chosen family. Prone to throwing punches over talking things through, Billy has a short fuse — but that's because he's lived a rough life. All of the Irregulars have grown up on the streets, but Billy's harboring more tra...
Spike (McKell David) may seem like the comic relief at first, but there's much more than meets the eye to this fast-talking charmer. He does provide a lot of levity but surprisingly also a lot of sense when the other teens need to hear it most.
Leopold (Harrison Osterfield) definitely doesn't fit in with the Irregulars. For one, he only just meets them in the first episode whereas the rest of them have known each other their whole lives. And for another, he's not exactly living on the streets like them. But after a chance encounter with Bea, unexpected feelings blossom and prove that oppo...
- Sydney Bucksbaum
- 22 min
Dec 18, 2018 · Tom Bidwell is an Oscar-nominated and Bafta-winning writer, who adapted Rae Earl's novel ' My Mad Fat Diary ' for E4 and Jacqueline Wilson's ' Katy ' for CBBC. He...
Mar 19, 2015 · 10. 519 views 8 years ago. BBC Writersroom interviews the writer of E4's 'My Mad Fat Diary', Tom Bidwell. Tom talks about what inspires him to write and what inspires his characters. Show...
BBC Writers interviews the writer of E4's 'My Mad Fat Diary', Tom Bidwell. Tom talks about what inspires him to write and what inspires his characters. He talks about how he got his break into...
