Roland Moore

Roland Moore
Nationality British
Occupation Screenwriter, Playwright, author
Known for Land Girls

Roland Moore is a British screenwriter and author, best known as the creator and lead writer of the period drama series Land Girls for BBC One.[1][2]

Career

Moore began as a playwright, producing short low budget productions. He subsequently moved into television, writing for series such as Smack the Pony, Rastamouse, Peter Rabbit and Doctors.[3][4]

His first feature, the teen adventure 2: hrs, was crowdfunded on Indiegogo. It's about a teenage boy who discovers he only has a short while to live.[5] It made its debut on VOD on 30 July 2018.[6]

Land Girls

Land Girls was conceived by Moore, who wanted to cover the subject matter of the Women's Land Army in an ensemble drama.[7] Once he had the idea, Moore set about creating the characters of Nancy, Joyce, Annie and Bea and devising story ideas from them. Moore named the four main characters after his grandmother and great-aunts, which made the names authentic for the time period. He also read accounts from real life land girls to make sure his stories were believable. The BBC announced the commission of Land Girls in June 2009, revealing that the series would air from 7 September 2009 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the start of the Second World War.[8]

Land Girls won "Best Daytime Programme" at the 2010 Broadcast Awards.[9] Later that year, it was named "Best Drama" at the Royal Television Society Awards. Gemmell won the "Best Newcomer" award, with Ward and Webb winning the "Best Actress" and "Best Actor" awards respectively.[10][11] The second series began airing from 17 January 2011 and two months later BBC Daytime Controller, Liam Keelan, renewed Land Girls for a third series. It began airing from 7 November 2011.

HarperImpulse, one of HarperCollins UK’s digital first imprints, signed a three-book deal with Moore to bring Land Girls to literary fiction.[12] The first, also Moore's first novel, was Land Girls: The Homecoming in 2017, followed by Land Girls: The Promise in 2018.

Big Finish and other work

Moore contributed audio plays for the Big Finish Doctor Who ranges, starting with the Second Doctor release, The Night Witches. It was inspired by the real life World War Two Russian female flying squadron.[13] He also wrote for the spin-offs The New Counter-Measures and Tales From New Earth, as well the seventh and eighth series of their Survivors range, based on the 1970s BBC television series, created by Terry Nation. He also wrote for their Star Cops range, based on the cult 1987 TV series created by Chris Boucher.

He wrote for the Amazon Prime webseries Cops and Monsters.[14] On 25 July 2018, it was announced Moore would be head writer on a Chinese version of AMC's Humans, produced by Endemol Shine China and Croton Media.[15][16]

References

  1. ↑ "Roland Moore Scriptwriter London". Roland Moore Scriptwriter London.
  2. ↑ "Land Girls". BBC Writersroom. 31 January 2011.
  3. ↑ "Episode 47: Roland Moore". PodOmatic.
  4. ↑ "Berlin Associates » Roland Moore". www.berlinassociates.com.
  5. ↑ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/2-hrs-london-teens
  6. ↑ https://twitter.com/2hrsfilm/status/1023874375202877440
  7. ↑ "Mobilising Land Girls". Writers' Guild of Great Britain. 24 September 2009. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
  8. ↑ Khan, Urmee (24 August 2009). "BBC To Show New Land Girls Drama". The Daily Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
  9. ↑ "Winners 2010". Broadcast Awards. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
  10. ↑ "2010 Nominations". Royal Television Society. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
  11. ↑ Arnesen, Sarah. "RTS Announces Winners for the MIdlands Award". Film Birmingham. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
  12. ↑ "'Land Girls' book to HarperImpulse | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
  13. ↑ "4.1. The Night Witches – Doctor Who – The Early Adventures". Big Finish. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  14. ↑ https://copsandmonsters.co.uk/2016/01/28/award-winning-writer-roland-moore-joins-the-team/
  15. ↑ https://twitter.com/berlinassocs/status/1022086619250270208
  16. ↑ https://deadline.com/2018/07/amc-c4-sci-fi-drama-humans-to-be-remade-in-china-via-endemol-shine-croton-media-1202433090/
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