Ed Hime is a British screenwriter and playwright, best known for his work with the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.^[1]

Hime has written several plays, such as Small Hours (at Hampstead Theatre), as well London Falls and London Tongue at the Old Red Lion Theatre.^[2] He also worked in radio, winning the 2007 Prix Italia award for Best Original Radio Drama for his radio play, The Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body.^[3][4]

On television, Hime has written for the fourth and fifth series of the teen drama Skins. Hime was attached to work on a new series of Sapphire & Steel with Luther creator Neil Cross.^[5] However, the project was never produced.^[6]

In 2018, he wrote the ninth and penultimate episode of the eleventh series of Doctor Who, It Takes You Away.^[7][8] He returned to write the third episode of the twelfth series, Orphan 55.^[9] He co-wrote the seventh episode of The Watch,^[10] which is inspired by the Ankh-Morpork City Watch from the Discworld series of fantasy novels by Terry Pratchett. He wrote three of the eight episodes ^[11] of Lockwood & Co., the Netflix series about teenage ghost hunters released in 2023.