Tom Moran
Writing
Biography
Tom Moran is a British screenwriter. Moran attended the University of East Anglia. While studying for a degree in Scriptwriting and Performance, he set up Laugh Out Loud comedy club. He subsequently performed a 21-night show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2014, Moran won the Guardian and Legend Press' new prize for self-published fiction. The prize aims to find books "that are not only zeitgeisty and promising, but will be talked about in 10 or even 100 years' time." Following the prize, Moran has received attention in various publications including the Washington Post. n 2015, Moran was named as one of the BAFTA Rocliffe New Comedy Writing Forum winners for his new sitcom, Printheads. The prize culminated in a showcase at the New York Television Festival, where professional actors performed the script live. At the festival, Moran won the AMC-Channel 4 Drama Co-Development Award for his sci-fi pilot White Rabbit. Moran wrote and executive produced the Amazon Prime Video thriller television series The Devil's Hour.
Known For
Lucy wakes every night at exactly 3:33am. Nothing in her life has made sense for a long time. But the answers are out there, somewhere, at the end of a trail of brutal murders.
The Devil's Hour
In the near future, people’s minds are connected to The Feed, giving them instant connectivity. When something or someone invades it, everyone is at risk.
The Feed
U.S. police chief Bill Hixon lands in the British town of Boston, Lincolnshire, with his 14-year-old daughter Kelsey in tow hoping they can flee their painful recent past. But this unfamiliar, unimpressed community will force Bill to question everything about himself and leave him asking whether it's Boston that needs Bill, or Bill that needs Boston?
Wild Bill
A married couple travel from Chicago to spend Christmas with the wife's family in a small town in Ireland. This is a holiday which will test their patience—and their marriage.
The Christmas Break
In each episode the animal music artists ooze attitude and present the viewers with a unique take on urban wildlife. Through musical rhyme children find out what life is really like for the wild creatures living amongst us in our cities. These seriously catchy tunes will stick in your head for days. Animal rap stars strut their stuff in these lively short episodes that will have audiences tuning in for their daily musical fix. The series developed from our first Urban Tails pilot episode “Funky Foxes” made for the RTÉ short scheme in 2016. The series concept was launched at Cartoon Forum and was nominated for BEST PILOT at Cartoons on the Bay. Urban Tails’ second pilot “Mista C-Lion” was launched at MIP 2017 in partnership with Screen Ireland. Both pilots can be seen below.