Paul Cornell
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Paul Douglas Cornell (born 18 July 1967) is a British writer best known for his television drama, Doctor Who, and as the creator of one of the Doctor's spin-off companions, Bernice Summerfield. Robin Hood, Prime Minister, Casualty, Holby City, and Coronation Street were among the British television dramas for which he has written.
He has contributed an episode to the Sherlock Holmes series Elementary, which is based on modern-day technology. In addition to his Doctor Who stories, Cornell has written for several British comics, as well as Marvel Comics and DC Comics in America, and has had six original books published in addition to his Doctor Who stories.
Personal life
Cornell said in an interview with him about Doctor Who: DWO Whocast" that he referred to him as "both a Christian and a pagan," which he has chosen not to correct as it reveals his pagan sympathies for the pagan world. He goes on to state that he is an Anglican but that he is a Calvinist, not because he dislikes hymns.
In his writing, spiritual topics are not unusual (for example, his book Something More). owls are another common theme in his work.
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.
In 2010, he appeared as a contestant on an episode of BBC Four quiz show Only Connect.
Career
Cornell's professional writing career began in 1990, when he was a winner in a young writers' competition and his entry, Kingdom Come Dancing, was published and broadcast on BBC Two. He wrote Timewyrm: Revelation, a book in the Virgin New Adventures series of Doctor Who stories, shortly after. Revelation was a reworking of a serialized fan fiction piece that Cornell had penned earlier for the fanzine Queen Bat. Several other Doctor Who books followed, including the award-winning Human Nature.
Cornell later began writing for Granada Television's Children's Ward and produced his own children's series Wavelength for Yorkshire Television, which aired for two seasons. In 1996, he made the switch to adult television full-time, becoming one of the main contributors to the Argentinian soap opera Springhill, which lasted for two years on Sky One and later on Channel 4.
He began working for other production companies, including contributing an episode to Red Production Company's anthology drama series Love in the 21st Century for Channel 4. Ioan Gruffuddd was the protagonist of his episode titled Masturbation. He had intended to be one of the writers on Red Production Company's forthcoming Queer as Folk spin-off series Misfits, but it was cancelled by Channel 4.
He has written mainly for the BBC, contributing episodes to all three of their regular medical dramas: Casualty, Holby City, and the daytime soap opera Doctors. He appeared on the television drama "British Invention" set in the 1950s and Bred, as one of the author of Doctor Who's 2005 series revival, writing the book "Father's Day" in its entirety. In 2006, the episode was nominated for the Hugo Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, and came third in terms of votes for its category. Cornell later wrote a two-part story for Doctor Who's 2007 collection, based on his 1995 Virgin New Adventures book Human Nature. The first episode of "Human Nature" was also named "The Family of Blood," while the second was titled "The Family of Blood." The two episodes were nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in Short Form in 2008.
Cornell revealed on his weblog that he would be writing an episode for BBC's forthcoming Robin Hood, produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for the same Saturday evening family slot as Doctor Who. He later revealed on his blog that he was also writing a second Robin Hood story for later in the first series. "Who Shot the Sheriff," he says in his first episode. On October 21, 2006, BBC One's "Megatronic" was broadcast. "A Thing or Two About Loyalty" was his second, which was followed on December 2nd, 2006. He also wrote an episode for another Saturday evening family adventure show, Primeval, which premiered in February 2008.
Pulse, also wrote one-off pilot Pulse, which was also shown on BBC Three in early June 2010.
Outside of television, he has been broadcasting in various other media formats, including six Doctor Who audio dramas for Virgin Publishing and BBC Books during the 1990s, three Doctor Who audio dramas for Big Finish Productions, and a fully animated Doctor Who adventure, starring Richard E. Grant as the Doctor. www.bbc.co.uk In 2003, he appeared in Scream of the Shalka, a television series starring Richard E. Grant as the Doctor. He has written two mainstream science-fiction books, Something More and British Summertime for Gollancz, as well as numerous books, short stories, and audio dramas based on a character he created for the New Adventures, which was later licensed to Big Finish Productions.
In addition, he 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 Handbook (a humorous introduction to Doctor Who). (Top of the Day and Day's Doctor Who novel The Devil Goblins from Neptune was based on an original idea with Cornell.) He has also written comics for Doctor Who Magazine and Judge Dredd Megazine, as well as the 2000 AD spin-off Judge Dredd Megazine.
He has written Wisdom, a 6-issue limited series for Marvel Comics' MAX imprint, focusing on the character Peter Wisdom and artist Manuel Garcia.
Cornell will be following Chris Claremont on Marvel's New Excalibur, according to a panel at the 2007 Wizard World Chicago comic book convention. Plans were later modified following the demise of the New Excalibur title and Cornell's latest initiative, Captain Britain and MI: 13. The third trade paperback, Vampire State, was nominated for the 2010 "Best Graphic Story" Hugo Award.
Young Avengers Presents No. 1 has also written about them. True Story, a Fantastic Four mini-series comic that began in July 2008, features the team discovering characters from the pages of literary classics. He wrote a story in 2008 that appeared on the Doctor Who website. He has also written the Young Avengers limited series that tie directly into Dark Reign and Black Widow: A mini-series that connects to the character's appearance in Iron Man 2.
After the War of the Supermen, Cornell became the next Action Comics writer. In 2010, Cornell began working with DC Comics exclusively as part of Action Comics' writing team. Number 900 appeared in his 16-issue run on the series. In late 2010 and early 2011, Cornell produced nine issues set in Batman's world: Knight & Squire, a six-issue miniseries, and a 3-issue run in Batman & Robin, #17-19.
Cornell became the writer for the DC Comics titles Demon Knights and Stormwatch in September 2011, as part of DC's The New 52 relaunch. Saucer Country, Cornell's last DC project, came out in June 2013.
Cornell is a member of the SF Squeecast, which received the 2012 and 2013 Hugo Awards for best fancasting.
Cornell revealed on Twitter that he had written his first script for US television in January 2016, contributing an episode to CBS Sherlock Holmes' Elementary, which was also a CBS Sherlock Holmes series Elementary.
He began co-hosting (with Lizbeth Myles from the Verity) in 2018. podcast (includes podcast) a podcast based on Hammer Film Productions' Hammer House of Podcasts, a horror film produced by Hammer Film Productions.