Tom Edge is a British screenwriter, best known for creating the submarine thriller ''

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''.

Career

Edge created and served as the lead writer on the sitcom '' Lovesick''. The series focused on a group of English friends sharing a house in the West End of Glasgow and their romances. ''Lovesick'' began as a programme for

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, before being acquired by

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. He also wrote on the second series of ''

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'', as well as the second, third and fourth series of ''

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''. He wrote the 2019 biopic '' Judy'', about the later life of Hollywood actress

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and her declining health. It starred, and later won an Academy Award for,

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. According to a 2021 interview, Edge was approached by producer George Aza-Selinger to develop a submarine project. It became ''Vigil'' and, produced by

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, it began broadcasting on

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on 29 August 2021. ''Vigil'' became the BBC’s most watched new drama of the year, with its first episode attracting 10.2 million viewers across its first seven days. In 2022, BBC One aired Edge's crime miniseries, '' You Don't Know Me''. It is based on the 2017 crime novel of the same name by

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Filmography

Film

Television

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