Alan Whiting
Alan Whiting is a British screenwriter who has written for "Wire in the Blood" and "Kingdom" (which he also co-created). Career. Whiting's career began in the mid 1960s, contributing episodes to "The Newcomers", a BBC soap opera which dealt with a London family, the Coopers, who moved to a housing estate in the fictional country town of Angleton. Into the 1980s and 1990s, he wrote for multiple series, such as "Heartbeat", "El C.I.D.", "Boon" and "See You Friday". In the 2000s, Whiting wrote for the period swashbuckler "The Scarlet Pimpernel" and "Steel River Blues". "The Darkness  of Light", one of his "Wire in the Blood" episodes, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Television Feature Or Mini-Series Teleplay in 2005. He adapted "Half Broken Things" as a television movie for Festival Films and it was broadcast on ITV in 2007. He later wrote the historical miniseries "" and some episodes of the first series of "Strike Back".