Daisy Coulam

Daisy Coulam is a British television producer and screenwriter known for creating of the long-running murder mystery series Grantchester for ITV in 2014.

Coulam's early work in television included storylining Family Affairs and script editing The Bill. Following her work on The Bill, she was awarded a place on the BBC Writer's Academy, a programme designed to train new writers, and got to write on Doctors, EastEnders, Casualty and its spinoff, Holby City. She'd move into primetime, writing Death in Paradise and Humans. Grantchester was based on The Grantchester Mysteries, collections of short stories written by James Runcie. The first series was based on the six stories from the first book, Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death, and was broadcast in 2014. It was a huge success and was recommissioned for several further series.

She also created the miniseries Deadwater Fell for Channel 4 in 2020, starring David Tennant as a Scottish doctor whose wife and three young children are murdered in a shocking fire.

Filmography Year Title Notes Broadcaster 2007-2008 Holby City 2 episodesBBC One 2007-2011 Casualty 14 episodesBBC One 2007-2014 Eastenders 27 episodesBBC One 2008 Doctors 1 episodeBBC One 2010 Accidental Farmer PilotBBC One 2014 Death in Paradise 1 episodeBBC One 2014–present Grantchester Creator, 51 episodesITV 2018 Humans 2 episodes Channel 4 2020 Deadwater Fell Creator, all episodes Channel 4