Tom Edge
Writer
Film, TV & Theatre
Film, TV & Theatre
Tom Edge is an Emmy award-winning, five-times BAFTA-nominated screenwriter.
He created the multi-award-winning series Vigil (BBC1 / NBC Peacock) starring Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie. The show was nominated for multiple BAFTA awards and won the International Emmy for Best Drama Series in 2022. It was the UK’s most-watched new drama of the year, attracting 10.2 million viewers in the UK in its first week. A third series is currently in pre-production.
To date Tom has adapted five of the Cormoran Strike novels written by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling), the latest being the four-part Strike: Troubled Blood. In the US the series airs on HBO as C. B. Strike. His adaptation of the latest book, The Ink Black Heart filmed in 2024 and production of The Running Grave is slated for 2025.
Other TV work includes creating the romantic comedy Lovesick which ran for three seasons on Netflix; a four-part adaptation of Imran Mahmood’s novel You Don't Know Me (BBC One / Netflix); a Christmas Day single-drama for Sky, The Last Dragonslayer, and work on seasons one and two of Netflix’s The Crown, notably writing the season two episode 'Paterfamilias', for which Stephen Daldry won the Emmy for Best Directing. Tom was nominated for the WGA Best Drama Writing award.
In film, he wrote the screenplay for the film Judy (dir. Rupert Goold). Playing Judy Garland, Renée Zellweger swept the 2019-20 awards season, winning the Golden Globe, BAFTA, SAG and Academy Award for Best Actress. Tom is currently writing an animated feature film adaptation of JK Rowling’s The Christmas Pig for Warner Bros.
His development slate includes the adaptation of John Fowles’s The Magus (Johan Renck directing, Sam Mendes’s Neal St producing) and a greenlit six-part adaptation of Gorky Park with Clerkenwell Films.
Film
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
JUDY 2019 | Pathé / Calamity Films / BBC Films | Screenplay writer. Directed by Rupert Goold, starring Renee Zellweger who swept the 2019-20 awards season for her role, winning the Golden Globe, BAFTA, SAG and Academy Award for Best Actress. |
Television
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
VIGIL Series 2 2023 | BBC One / World Productions / NBC Peacock | Creator, Writer and Executive Producer. Starring Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie. 6 x 60” |
STRIKE: TROUBLED BLOOD 2022 | BBC One / HBO Max | Writer and Exec Producer. Adaptation of the Robert Galbraith novels (aka JK Rowling). 4 x 60" |
YOU DON'T KNOW ME 2020 | BBC One / Snowed-In-Productions / Netflix | Writer and Exec Producer. Adaptation of the book by Imran Mahmood. 4 x 60”. Samuel Adewunmi nominated Best Actor at the BAFTA TV Awards 2021 |
VIGIL Series 1 2020 | BBC One / World Productions / NBC Peacock | Creator, Writer and Executive Producer. Starring Suranne Jones. 6 x 60” |
STRIKE: LETHAL WHITE 2020 | BBC One / Cinemax | Adaptation of the Robert Galbraith novels (aka JK Rowling). Writer and Exec Producer. 4 x 60" |
STRIKE: CAREER OF EVIL 2018 | BBC One / Cinemax | Adaptation of the Robert Galbraith novels (aka JK Rowling). Writer and Exec Producer. |
LOVESICK Series 3 2018 | Clerkenwell Films / Netflix | 8 new episodes: Creator, writer and executive producer |
THE CROWN Series 2 2017 | Left Bank / Netflix | Writer, 1 x 60". Episode 9 of season two, "Paterfamilias", for which Stephen Daldry won the Emmy for Best Directing. |
STRIKE: THE SILKWORM 2017 | BBC One / Cinemax | Adaptation of the Robert Galbraith novels (aka JK Rowling). Writer and Exec Producer. |
THE CROWN Series 1 2016 | Leftbank / Netflix | Credited on 4 episodes |
LOVESICK Series 2 2016 | Clerkenwell Films / Netflix | Creator, exec producer, writer, 8 x 30" |
THE LAST DRAGONSLAYER 2016 | Blueprint Pictures / Sky One | 1 x 120 |
LOVESICK Series 1 2014 | Clerkenwell Films / Channel 4 | Creator, exec producer, writer 6 x 30". |
THE MIDNIGHT BEAST Series 2 2014 | Warp Films / E4 | Writer x4 episodes. |
PRAMFACE Series 2 2013 | Little Comet / BBC Three | Writer, 1 x 30' episode. |
THREESOME Series 2 2012 | Big Talk / Comedy Central | Writer. Episode 1: Back To School", |
THE MIDNIGHT BEAST 2012 | Warp Films / Channel 4 | Writer x1 episode, with credited production rewrites across rest of series |
ROUTES 2009 | Oil / Channel 4 | Transmedia project (Creator and Lead Writer) |