16 Facts About Pete McTighe

Pete McTighe wrote several episodes of Wentworth, a female ensemble prison drama series that won Most Outstanding and Most Popular Drama at the Logie Awards.

Pete McTighe is the creator and writer of the BBC1 mystery thriller series The Pact and has written various television productions in the UK and internationally including Doctor Who, The Rising, Glitch, Nowhere Boys and A Discovery of Witches.

Pete McTighe was invited to join the writing team at Neighbours in 2006.

In 2011, Pete McTighe started writing for the BBC One drama EastEnders.

In 2012, it was announced Pete McTighe would be writing a reimagining of Prisoner Cell Block H called Wentworth.

Pete McTighe was the head writer for the first series, writing six of the ten episodes.

Pete McTighe wrote the opening episode and the series finale of the second season, for which he received an AWGIE Award nomination.

Pete McTighe wrote 27 key episodes of the Series across the first 8 seasons.

Pete McTighe appeared in a cameo role in the final scene of Season 7 which saw the return of popular villain Joan Ferguson.

Pete McTighe wrote the sleeve notes for many of the classic Doctor Who DVD releases during the final years of the range.

Pete McTighe writes and directs regular short films featuring classic Doctors and companions to promote the release of The Collection sets.

In 2024, it was announced Pete McTighe co-wrote The War Between the Land and the Sea alongside Russell T Davies, a Doctor Who spin-off.

In January 2025, it was announced that Pete McTighe was returning to Doctor Who as a writer on the fifteenth series.

Pete McTighe created and wrote the BBC1 mystery thriller series The Pact which aired in May 2021, starring Laura Fraser, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Rakie Ayola, Eiry Thomas, Aneurin Barnard and Jason Hughes.

In 2015, Pete McTighe received an AWGIE Award nomination for his work on the teen supernatural series Nowhere Boys.

Pete McTighe wrote an episode of the Netflix series Clickbait.