Dream Team Writer Profiles: Leon Coole

 

Leon Coole wrote 13 episodes of DT in Seasons 5-7.

 

Alongside writing, Leon has had a long career as an Assistant Director in all first, second and third roles. His television credits for these have included "The Ruth Rendell Mysteries" (4 episodes, 1996-97), "Pig Heart Boy" (6 eps, 1999), "Bad Girls" (3 eps, 2001), "Sesame Tree" (40 eps, 2008-10), "Big City Park" (26 eps, 2010), "Dani's Castle" (4 eps, 2013), "Millie Inbetween" (4 eps, 2015-16), "Secret Life of Boys" (25 eps, 2017-19), "Silverpoint" (13 eps, 2022), "Dalgliesh" (2 eps, 2024) and "Art Detectives" (3 eps, 2025).

 

His AD film credits include "City of Ember" (2008), "Pumpgirl" (2009), "Shooting for Socrates" and "Robot Overlords" (both 2014), "Ordinary Love" (2019) and "Wildfire" (2020). While Leon's producer credits include "Silverpoint" (10 eps, 2023) and "The Wise Guy" (2024).

 

 

 

Dream Team episodes written by Leon Coole

 

 

 

5.3 (#231) Revenge Is Mine  Sunday 30th September 2001

5.18 (#246) Brothers In Arms  Sunday 27th January 2002

5.27 (#255) Torn (2002)  Sunday 31st March 2002 (co)

6.1 (#261) It Could Be You  Sunday 6th October 2002

6.3 (#263) Easy Come, Easy Go  Sunday 20th October 2002 (co)

6.7 (#267) Rumble In The Jungle  Sunday 17th November 2002

6.8 (#268) About Last Night  Sunday 24th November 2002

6.12 (#272) Deep & Crisp & Getting Even  Sunday 22nd December 2002

6.23 (#283) Bending the Truth  Sunday 16th March 2003 (co)

6.28 (#288) Torn (2003)  Sunday 20th April 2003 (co)

7.1 (#293) Groundhog Day  Sunday 28th September 2003

7.11 (#303) Saving Priceless Ryan  Sunday 7th December 2003 (co)

7.20 (#312) What A Tangled Web We Weave  Sunday 15th February 2004 (co)

 

 

 

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