Maxine Alderton is a British screenwriter, best known for her work on the

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science fiction television series ''

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''.

Career

Beginning as a script editor in the mid 2000s, Alderton graduated to writing for the long-running ITV soap opera ''

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'', writing over 124 episodes since 2013. She won Best Writer at the Royal Television Society Yorkshire Awards in 2017. She has also written for the first two series of ''

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'', and in 2020, contributed the eighth episode of the twelfth series of ''Doctor Who'', " The Haunting of Villa Diodati." The episode was set on the night

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was inspired to write ''Frankenstein''. She returned to co-write the fourth episode, " Village of the Angels," with

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for the thirteenth series (known as ''Flux''). The episode saw the return of recurring villains, the

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s. It is the only episode of ''Flux'' to be written by someone other than showrunner Chibnall. The episode also featured a

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, something unusual for the programme. Alderton wrote episodes for the fourth and fifth series of Channel 5's period drama '' All Creatures Great and Small''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alderton, Maxine Living people 21st-century British women writers British soap opera writers Women soap opera writers British women television writers British women science fiction and fantasy writers Year of birth missing (living people)