Paul Rose (born 1971), known by his online

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Mr Biffo, is a British

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. He was the editor of the

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-based video games magazine

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, which ran between 1993 and 2003, and is a

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-nominated writer of children's television.

Career

Video games

In 1993 Rose founded the

-based video games magazine ''

''. This ran until 2003, with the service reaching over 1.5 million viewers a week. In 2014, the ''Digitiser'' brand returned as an online website titled ''Digitiser 2000'', penned by Rose. This was followed in 2018 by a video series, ''Digitiser: The Show'', a

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magazine show funded through

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. The programme now takes the form of shorter weekly uploads to its

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page, titled ''Digitiser Mini''. Rose has also written for '' Official PlayStation Magazine'' and ''

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''. From 2003 to 2008 he also wrote a monthly column in ''

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'' entitled Biffovision. Rose also devised the storyline for the multi-format video game ''

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''.

Children's television

Rose is the co-creator and lead writer of the

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sitcoms ''

Dani's House ''Dani's House'' is a British children's comedy series broadcast on CBBC and starring Dani Harmer. The first series premiered on 26 September 2008, and its fifth series concluded on 19 July 2012. It has received several awards and nominations ...

'', its follow-up ''

Dani's Castle ''Dani's Castle'' (also known as ''Rich, Jimmy & Kait's Castle'' during the third series) is a British children's comedy series broadcast on the CBBC Channel. It is the spin-off series to ''Dani's House''. Dani inherits a castle in Northern Ire ...

'' and the programme ''

4 O'Clock Club ''4 O'Clock Club'' is a British comedy drama and musical children's television series set in a secondary school, which premiered on 13 January 2012 on CBBC. Background In March 2011, auditions were held for ''4 O'Clock Club'', and the show was ...

'', which was nominated for 'Best Children's Comedy' at the 2012 BAFTA Children's Awards. Rose has also worked on the

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series ''

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'', which itself was nominated for 'Best Children's Drama' at the 2004 BAFTAs. Rose has also worked on shows such as ''

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'', ''

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'', ''The Worst Witch'' and ''

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''. As of 2019, Rose is currently working on the CBBC show ''Almost Never'', a

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series co-created with Jeremy Salsby and starring

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and

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Other work

As well as his work on Children's television, Rose has also contributed to a number of programmes for adult audiences, including ''

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'', a 2003 episode of UK

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'' and the fourth series of ''

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''. He has also written for numerous film and technology magazines, including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 2003, Rose won a

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for his writing on

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. In 2007, Rose co-wrote a TV pilot, which was broadcast on

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, titled ''Biffovision''. It was produced by Hartswood Films and is a parody of children's television co-written with Tim Moore. He has also written a number of non-broadcast television pilots, including ''Too Much Too Young'' and ''Now The Weather''. In May 2007, Rose published the book ''Confessions of a Chatroom Freak'' through Friday Books, which has since gone into liquidation. In it, Rose posed as a beautiful young woman called LoopyLisa21f who chatted to men online, mostly about sexual acts they wanted to do to Lisa, and then published the transcripts. In 2014, Rose was the screenwriter of '' Pudsey: The Movie'', a film starring the ''

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'' winner Pudsey the Dog. Pudsey is voiced for the movie by

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. In 2017, Rose successfully funded a Kickstarter campaign to bring together ''Mr Biffo's Found Footage'', a comedy montage series in the found footage style, which culminated in a short sci fi film featuring

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. In September 2020, Rose started his own

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via the

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network. Titled ''Between You And Me'', the series features Rose and his wife Sanja exploring the back-catalogue of British

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band

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References

External links

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Digitiser 2000
Mr Biffo's video games blog
NTSC-uk
Interview with Mr Biffo
One Life Left
Radio interview
Bubblegun.com a humour website formerly run by Paul Rose
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rose, Paul 1971 births Living people British male journalists British soap opera writers British male television writers