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Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Tom MacRae
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He is the creator of Comedy Central"s Threesome. He has also written for Marple and Lewis for Independent Television, and Casualty and Bonekickers for the British Broadcasting Corporation. He wrote the two-part story "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel" for the 2006 series of Doctor Who. Issue 383 of Doctor Who Magazine reported that MacRae had been commissioned to write the episode "Century House" for Series 4, broadcast in 2008.
However, this episode was cancelled after Russell T Davies decided that it was too close in tone to another episode.
More recently, MacRae wrote "The Girl Who Waited" for the 2011 series of Doctor Who. MacRae wrote a picture book for children called The Opposite which has gone into paperback and been published in several languages.
His second book for children, Baby Pie also received a paperback edition His writing for television includes.
British Broadcasting Corporation One"s Mayo starring Alistair McGowan, "At Bertrams Hotel" for Marple and "Life Born of Fire" for Lewis (both for ITV1), The Lincolnshire of War for the British Broadcasting Corporation series Bonekickers and an episode of Casualty.
He was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2002 for Office Limits: School"s Out for Channel 4. MacRae grew up in Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire and attended Campion School, Bugbrooke. In 2011, he created and wrote Threesome, Comedy Central United Kingdom"s first original scripted comedy since the channel was renamed in 2009.
A second series has aired.
