Rob Gittins is a British screenwriter and novelist.
Rob has written for almost every top-rated network UK TV show from the past thirty years, including Casualty, The Bill, EastEnders, Emmerdale, Heartbeat, Soldier Soldier and The Story of Tracy Beaker. Rob is currently[when?] the longest serving writer on EastEnders and has completed well over 200 episodes of the programme.
Rob co-created and wrote all eight episodes of the BBC1 prime time drama series TIGER BAY as well as a three-part political thriller for ITV, IN THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS.
For S4C, Rob has storylined over two thousand episodes of the popular daily Welsh language drama serial Pobol y Cwm as well as co-creating the drama series HALEN YN Y GWAED (SALT IN THE BLOOD) which ran foRob Gittins is a British screenwriter and novelist.
Rob has written for almost every top-rated network UK TV show from the past thirty years, including Casualty, The Bill, EastEnders, Emmerdale, Heartbeat, Soldier Soldier and The Story of Tracy Beaker. Rob is currently[when?] the longest serving writer on EastEnders and has completed well over 200 episodes of the programme.
Rob co-created and wrote all eight episodes of the BBC1 prime time drama series TIGER BAY as well as a three-part political thriller for ITV, IN THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS.
For S4C, Rob has storylined over two thousand episodes of the popular daily Welsh language drama serial Pobol y Cwm as well as co-creating the drama series HALEN YN Y GWAED (SALT IN THE BLOOD) which ran for four series.
For BBC Radio 4, Rob has written over twenty original radio plays, over a hundred episodes of The Archers and a 10-part children’s drama series. Rob’s radio production LOSING PARADISE, a co-authored six part thriller co-produced by the BBC, ABC in Australia and CBC in Canada, won the Gold Drama Award at The New York International Radio Festival. Rob has also written a four-part radio late night drama serial for Radio 4, NIGHTMOVES.
Rob’s latest radio play, JULIE, a dramatisation of the extraordinary story of the Operation Julie drugs bust transmitted on BBC Radio 4 in September 2014....more