Dean Wilkinson

Wilkinson quit the show not long after Ant and Dec left to work for the BBC. Whilst working for the BBC he wrote 2 series of his sitcom Bad Penny starring John Shuttleworth actor Graham Fellows, and two series of his sketch show Stupid!, starring Marcus Bridgstock and Phil Cornwell. Wilkinson co-created and co-wrote the radio 4 show John Shuttleworth’s Open Mind. In 2006 the BBC commissioned to write his radio sketch show I’m An Alien Beam Me Off Here starring Blake's 7 star Paul Darrow.

Wilkinson co-wrote Harry Hill’s Shark Infested Custard with Harry Hill in 2005.

Other TV work has seen him writing for BBC pre-school channel CBeebies's forthcoming Teacup Travels and Doodle Do as well as Casper’s Scare School, Aardman’s Planet Sketch, links for Noel Edmonds on Are You Smarter than a 10 Year Old? and all 26 episodes of the Malaysian action comedy animation series Jinggo, produced by Backbone Entertainment.

Wilkinson has had much success writing for games and is the writer on all Sony’s LittleBigPlanet titles. He has also written for two of Team 17’s Worms games, Worms Revolution which featured the voice of Matt Berry as Don Keystone and Worms Clan Wars with the voice of Katherine Parkinson as Tara Pinkle; both Berry and Parkinson can be seen in TV's The IT Crowd. Other games such as Driver: San Francisco, Trivial Pursuit, Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Disney’s Fantasia: Music Evolved are also brought to life thanks to Dean's dialogue.

For LittleBigPlanet 3, Dean Wilkinson returned as one of the writers, providing witticisms and puns for Stephen Fry. He also wrote the new villain’s dialogue, voiced by Hugh Laurie. In addition, Dean worked on general dialogue, quests, character names and bios, Popit puzzles, and general consistency in the LittleBigPlanet tone.

For Penguin he has written the Plants Versus Zombies puzzle book and The Beano’s Prankipedia.

For adults he has published The Tees Bally Fibber, the best of the spoof newspaper website he used to write and performed stories from on Teesside’s TFM Radio, and the darkly humoured Disturbing Bedtime Tales For Very Bad People.

For Apex Publishing he wrote The Classic Children’s Television Quiz Book, a thousand questions on classic children’s TV.

In 2003 Scholastic published his first two novels, The Legend Of Arthur King and Arthur King And The Curious Case Of The Time Train.

In 1997 Wilkinson provided many sketches for the penultimate series of Alas Smith & Jones. Greater success came when Chris Pilkington, then of Children’s BBC, paired him with the Geordie pop duo P.J. & Duncan, later more widely known as Ant and Dec, with whom he worked for 7 years.

Wilkinson began writing in 1989 for adult and children’s comics including Smut and Zit. He was appointed editor of the anarchic children’s comic Acne before releasing his own titled Fizog. His first TV scripts were performed by Charlie Chuck (Uncle Peter from The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer) on The James Whale Show.

Dean Earle Wilkinson (born 18 April 1967) is an English comedy writer. He wrote the multi-award-winning SMTV Live and Chums for Ant & Dec, and scripted the Sony console game series LittleBigPlanet.