Peter McTighe (born November 1972) is a British and Australian screenwriter and producer. He was the originating writer of prison drama series Wentworth, writing most of the first season and key episodes of subsequent seasons. The show ran for nine years, sold to hundreds of countries internationally and won dozens of awards including Most Outstanding and Most Popular Drama at the AACTA and Logie Awards. He is the creator and writer of the BBC1 mystery thriller series The Pact and has written and/or Executive Produced various television productions in the UK and internationally, including Doctor Who, The War Between The Land And The Sea, The Rising, A Discovery of Witches, Glitch and Nowhere Boys. McTighe has received five Australian Writers Guild Award and one Welsh BAFTA nomination for his work.
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McTighe was born in the United Kingdom. After spending his childhood in the UK, he moved to Australia, where he studied film and television at Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. He initially worked in the music industry, but changed careers to work in television after authoring a pilot script for a drama series based on his experiences in music, which received attention from a production company and was made through funding from an Australian Film Institute body. Off the back of this, he was invited to join the writing team at Neighbours in 2006, eventually becoming the head of its script department. His contributions to the series included the show's 6000th episode, which aired as part of the 25th anniversary on 27 August 2010. In 2012, he was nominated for his first Australian Writers Guild Award (AWGIE) in the category of Best Television Serial for Episode 6231.
