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Cameron McAllister

Brighton & Hove

Summary

Creative Professional specialising in scriptwriting, Producing, Exec Producing and Directing a variety of award-winning high-end and continuing drama series for the UK's main broadcasters across all genres.


Author of two acclaimed novels for Penguin / Random House.

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience

Work history

Scriptwriter, Too Good To Be True

Story Films for C5 / Paramount

Four part psychological thriller

Producer, Jericho

ITV

Four part period detective series starring Robert Lindsay

Author, The Tin Snail

Penguin / Random House

Novel inspired by the true story of how the Citroen 2CV was invented in secrecy then hidden from the Nazis during WW2

Author, The Demon Undertaker

Penguin / Random House

Novel about the adventures of the Young Bow Street Runners

Scriptwriter, Coronation Street

ITV
03.2017 - Current

Core writer for 8 yrs

Scriptwriter (Writers' Room)

Stephen Knight drama series BBC/Kudos TV
10.2024 - 11.2025

Developing stories & bible

Scriptwriter, Emmerdale

ITV
03.2009 - 02.2017

Scriptwriter, New Tricks

BBC Studios
09.2009 - 10.2009

I episode, Blood Is Thicker

Scriptwriter, Holby City

BBC Studios
07.2009 - 08.2009

1 episode, The Cost of Loving

Scriptwriter, Crusoe

NBC
12.2008 - 02.2009

Writer on NBC's adaptation of Robinson Crusoe

Executive Producer, Scriptwriter, Primeval

ITV
02.2006 - 02.2009

Four series of ITV prime-time action / adventure series

Scriptwriter, Spooks: Code 9

BBC Studios / Kudos
08.2008 - 09.2008

1 episode of Spooks spy spin-off

Producer, Script editor, Co-creator

Daylight Robbery, ITV
02.1999 - 02.2002

2 Series of ITV action thriller about a group of desperate mums who resort to bank robbery

Producer, Forgotten

ITV
07.1998 - 03.1999

3 Part acclaimed thriller starring Amanda Burton & Paul McGann

Executive Producer, Scriptwriter, Dream Team

Sky
10.1997 - 06.1998

Co-creator of Sky's long-running drama series set in the world of a fictitious Premiership Football Club

Director, Island

ITV
07.1996 - 09.1996

3 episodes of ITV's drama series about a group of young modern-day castaways in the Channel Islands

Director, Hollyoaks

Channel 4
06.1995 - 07.1996

Director, Brookside

Channel 4
06.1995 - 06.1996

Multiple episodes of C4's flagship soap opera set on a Liverpool housing estate

Director, Co-creator, Gamesmaster

Channel 4
07.1991 - 07.1993

2 series of Channel 4's cult entertainment series set in the world of computer games

Graduate Trainee Directorship

ITV
09.1989 - 03.1991

Education

Bachelor of Arts - English Literature

Durham University
Durham
/1986 - /1989

Timeline

Scriptwriter (Writers' Room)

Stephen Knight drama series BBC/Kudos TV
10.2024 - 11.2025

Scriptwriter, Coronation Street

ITV
03.2017 - Current

Scriptwriter, New Tricks

BBC Studios
09.2009 - 10.2009

Scriptwriter, Holby City

BBC Studios
07.2009 - 08.2009

Scriptwriter, Emmerdale

ITV
03.2009 - 02.2017

Scriptwriter, Crusoe

NBC
12.2008 - 02.2009

Scriptwriter, Spooks: Code 9

BBC Studios / Kudos
08.2008 - 09.2008

Executive Producer, Scriptwriter, Primeval

ITV
02.2006 - 02.2009

Producer, Script editor, Co-creator

Daylight Robbery, ITV
02.1999 - 02.2002

Producer, Forgotten

ITV
07.1998 - 03.1999

Executive Producer, Scriptwriter, Dream Team

Sky
10.1997 - 06.1998

Director, Island

ITV
07.1996 - 09.1996

Director, Hollyoaks

Channel 4
06.1995 - 07.1996

Director, Brookside

Channel 4
06.1995 - 06.1996

Director, Co-creator, Gamesmaster

Channel 4
07.1991 - 07.1993

Graduate Trainee Directorship

ITV
09.1989 - 03.1991

Scriptwriter, Too Good To Be True

Story Films for C5 / Paramount

Producer, Jericho

ITV

Author, The Tin Snail

Penguin / Random House

Author, The Demon Undertaker

Penguin / Random House

Bachelor of Arts - English Literature

Durham University
/1986 - /1989
Cameron McAllister