Barbara Cox (writer)

Barbara Cox is a British writer and script editor who works mainly in television. She co-created the 1990s television show 99-1 and in 2005 won a BAFTA for the children's drama Wipe Out in the category Writer, Best Adapted Script.

Biography

She has worked on programmes including The Bill, The Paradise Club, Cardiac Arrest, Love Hurts, Dangerfield and Holby City. In 1993-1994, she and Terry Johnson co-created the series 99-1 , which starred Leslie Grantham and Sir Robert Stephens. 99-1 did well in its first season with ratings of 12 million, but was eclipsed in its second year when the BBC scheduled The X Files against it; a projected third series was not commissioned.
From there, Cox worked on Wycliffe and several children's programmes, including I Was a Rat, Bootleg and Pig Heart Boy. In 2022, she was commissioned to write a TV series proposal and pilot script based on the book The Encyclopaedia of Scary Things. A University of Oxford graduate, Cox now oversees bachelor's courses in screenwriting at Birkbeck, University of London.
In 2005, Cox won a British Academy Children's Film and Television Award for Writer, Best Adapted Script, for the children's drama Wipe Out, based on a book by Mimi Thebo.