Peter Moffat
Alexander Peter Moffat (born 2 June 1962) is a British playwright and screenwriter.
Works
Scoop
Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization gives an insider account of how the women of Newsnight secured Prince Andrew's infamous interview.
Release Date: 2024-03-27
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 195
61st Street
Moses Johnson is a promising high-school athlete with a bright future who’s accused of murdering a police officer during a drug bust gone wrong. Swept up into the infamously corrupt Chicago criminal justice system, Moses’ case is taken up by ageing public defender Franklin Roberts, who sees this as his chance to finally challenge the institutional racism at the heart of the judicial system.
Release Date: 2022-04-10
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 16
Vote Count: 19
Your Honor
New Orleans judge Michael Desiato is forced to confront his own deepest convictions when his son is involved in a hit and run that embroils an organized crime family.
Release Date: 2020-12-06
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 1582
The Last Post
Drama series set in the mid-sixties, in which a unit of Royal Military Police officers and their families deal with the challenges of politics, love and war in British-controlled Aden.
Release Date: 2017-10-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 22
The Night Of
After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.
Release Date: 2016-07-10
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 1123
Undercover
Undercover follows Maya, the first black Director Of Public Prosecutions. Just as she is about to take up the post and her life comes under intense public scrutiny, she learns that that her husband Nick has been lying to her for years. Twenty years ago Nick was a fearless and dedicated undercover officer, infiltrating organisations considered a danger to society because of their political beliefs. Nick built himself a fake past and now with his wife unsuspecting and his conscience killing him – his secret identity may compromise the new Director of Public Prosecutions.
Release Date: 2016-04-03
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 26
The Village
The Village tells the story of life in a Derbyshire village through the eyes of a central character, Bert Middleton.
Release Date: 2013-03-31
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 16
Silk
Silk is a British television drama series produced by the BBC and first shown in 2011. Written by Peter Moffat, the series follows a set of barristers, and what they do to attain the rank of Queen's Counsel, known as "taking silk."
Release Date: 2011-02-22
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 12
Vote Count: 45
Einstein and Eddington
A look at the evolution of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to understand his ideas.
Release Date: 2008-11-29
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 138
Criminal Justice
Thriller by Peter Moffat about the challenges and politics of the criminal justice system seen through the eyes of the accused.
Release Date: 2008-06-30
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 26
Macbeth
A chef and his restaurant-hostess wife resort to murder to take ownership of a high-class Glaswegian restaurant.
Release Date: 2005-11-14
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 5
ShakespeaRe-Told
Four of Shakespeare's plays are dramatically relocated to the modern day.
Release Date: 2005-11-07
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 13
Hawking
The story of Professor Stephen Hawking's early years. It is 1963, and our young cosmologist celebrates his 21st birthday. At the party is a new friend, Jane Wilde - there is a strong attraction between the two. Jane is intrigued by Stephen's talk of stars and the Universe. But she realises that there is something very wrong when Stephen suddenly finds that he is unable to stand up.
Release Date: 2004-12-10
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 148
Cambridge Spies
In 1934, four brilliant Cambridge students are recruited to spy for Russia. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice and a talent for lying, they take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow.
Release Date: 2003-05-09
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 16
North Square
North Square is an award-winning British television drama series written by Peter Moffat and broadcast by Channel 4 at the end of 2000. Starring an ensemble cast, including Phil Davis, Rupert Penry-Jones, Helen McCrory and Kevin McKidd, the programme is set around the practice of a Leeds Legal Chambers. The series was filmed in and around the real life Park Square, Leeds. This is the area near the city where the majority of legal firms are concentrated. Despite gaining considerable critical acclaim the show failed to garner a substantial audience resulting in only the one series of ten episodes being produced. In Australia the series was broadcast in 2001 on ABC and repeated in 2004 after popular and critical acclaim. The full series was released on DVD for the first time by Acorn Media UK on 5 March 2012.
Release Date: 2000-10-18
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 2