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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 ''. Cornell is married to Caroline Symcox , who has also written ''Doctor Who''-based audio plays for Big Finish Productions on her own and with Cornell. PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY Already known in ''Doctor Who'' fan circles, Cornell's professional writing career began in piece Cornell had penned previously for the Fanzine ''Queen Bat''. 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 '', produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for the same Saturday evening family slot as ''Doctor Who''. 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 From Neptune '' was also based on an original idea with Cornell.) He has also written comics, both for '' Doctor Who Magazine '' and '' 2000AD '' spin-off '' Judge Dredd Megazine ''. 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 frequent references in his work include Owls . NOVELS Virgin New Adventures
Virgin Missing Adventures
Eighth Doctor Adventures
Other Doctor Who novels
Other novels
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