Heidi Thomas

Heidi Thomas is a British screenwriter and playwright, known for the TV and film adaptions of "Madame Bovary" (2000), "I Capture the Castle" (2003), "Ballet Shoes" (2007) and "Cranford" (2007-2009), as well as the creation of the BBC TV series "Lillies" (2007), "Upstairs Downstairs" (2010) and "Call the Midwife" (2012 - ). She has received several awards, among them the British Royal Television Society's Best Writer award and the British Broadcasting Press Guild Award for "Cranford". She has also been nominated for several BAFTA TV Awards and Primetime Emmy Awards. She is married to actor Stephen McGann, who plays Dr Turner in "Call the Midwife".

Works

Allelujah

When news of the closure of a small hospital's geriatric ward begins to reach the community, the hospital invites a local news crew to document their planning of a concert in honor of the hospital's most celebrated nurse. But there might be something more threatening to the hospital itself, more deadly than the politicians ready to shut down the place at a moment's notice.

Release Date:2023-03-17

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:23

Little Women

Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, the story follows sisters Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March on their journey from childhood to adulthood. With the help of their mother, Marmee, and while their father is away at war, the girls navigate what it means to be a young woman: from sibling rivalry and first love, to loss and marriage.

Release Date:2017-12-26

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:95

Call the Midwife

Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

Release Date:2012-01-15

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:109

Vote Count:224

Upstairs Downstairs

Set in 1936, the show takes viewers, old and new, back to the lavish world of Belgravia, London. A new set of occupants reside at 165 Eaton Place and viewers see how external and internal influences of the tumultuous pre-war period shape and mould the lives of this wealthy family and their servants.‬

Release Date:2010-12-26

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:39

Ballet Shoes

An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one of his adventures. Together, they nurture their passions for acting, aviation and ballet in this charming TV adaptation of Noel Streatfield's novel.

Release Date:2008-08-26

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:261

Cranford

A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.

Release Date:2007-11-18

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Self

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:47

Lilies

Lilies is a British period-drama television series, written by Heidi Thomas, which ran for one eight-episode series in early 2007 on BBC One. The show's tagline was "Liverpool, 1920. Three girls on the edge of womanhood, a world on the brink of change." Due to lower than expected ratings, the BBC did not commission a second series.

Release Date:2007-01-12

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:6

I Capture the Castle

A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle. Based on Dodie Smith's 1948 novel with the same name.

Release Date:2003-05-09

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:89

Madame Bovary

A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, and next she takes a lover. When he refuses to run away with her, she takes up again with the law clerk. Her spending on dresses and furnishings mounts; these debts and her ill-advised professional counsel to her husband bring his ruin.

Release Date:2000-06-02

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:10

Kiss and Tell

An undercover police officer must prove that a lonely man's missing wife was murdered.

Release Date:1996-11-09

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:6

Frank Stubbs Promotes

Frank Stubbs (Timothy Spall) is a down-at-heel ticket tout with grand ideas. He has an ambition to become a 'high class' promoter of famous and talented performers. In reality, his ambitions tend to outstrip his capabilities.

Release Date:1993-07-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Soldier Soldier

The daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers.

Release Date:1991-06-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:13

Our Lady Blue

In a Liverpool convent a touching and unusual friendship is forged between Rachel, a young volunteer, Paul, doing 100 hours of community service, and Sheila, a dying prostitute. It results in a strange and forbidden journey to Lourdes.

Release Date:1987-08-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer