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British screenwriter

Ashley Pharoah (born 13 September 1959) is a British screenwriter and television producer. He is best known as the co creator/writer of the successful drama series Life on Mars, which began on BBC One in 2006, and creator/writer of the family drama Wild at Heart, which aired on ITV1 from 2006 until 2012.

attended Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, an independent school in Bristol.

began his television writing career on the BBC soap opera EastEnders in 1991, on which he worked for four years and where he met co writer Matthew Graham. He went on in 1994–1995 to contribute five episodes to the popular BBC One drama series Casualty and four episodes to Silent Witness (1996). For ITV he created the long running series Where the Heart Is, for which he wrote episodes from 1997 to 2000, and created the BBC One TV programme Down to Earth in 2001. Among other work in the early 2000s he scripted an adaptation of Tom Brown's Schooldays, starring Stephen Fry, for the ITV1 network in 2005. He has won two International Emmys for "Life on Mars", a series which was remade for ABC in America, starring Harvey Keitel. In 2010 adapted Case Histories, the novel by Kate Atkinson, for the BBC. It stars Jason Isaacs and was a co production between Monastic Productions and Ruby Television. Other work around this time include "Eternal Law" for ITV and an adaptation of Moonfleet for Sky, starring Ray Winstone. His series The Living And The Dead, starring Colin Morgan, was screened on BBC1 in the summer of 2016. Pharoah was co creator, writer and executive producer on an adaptation of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days, which starred David Tennant and was screened around the world in 2021.