It featured a return of fan-favorite the Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney) and a scene-stealing performance by Emmy winner Jean Marsh ( The Changeling, Willow) as Morgaine, the priestess of Arthurian legend. Rivers of London / Midnight Riot, (2011) Moon Over Soho. Battlefield (1989) offered an ambitious and complex drama centered on King Arthur mythology. Order of Ben Aaronovitch Books Publication Order of PC Peter Grant / Rivers of London Books. Related: Sherlock: Benedict Cumberbatch's Best Moments in the BBC SeriesĪaronovitch responded with two of the most well-regarded serials of the 1963-89 era. New script editor Andrew Cartmel brought in fresh blood, commissioning scripts from a number of up-and-coming writers, of whom Aaronovitch was one. Aaronovitch was a key figure in the adventures of the Doctor, not during the more recent David Tennant or Matt Smith eras, but in the 1980s, during the tenure of Seventh Doctor - and soon-to-be star of the remake of The Munsters - Sylvester McCoy.Īfter multiple misfires during the run of Sixth Doctor Colin Baker, as well as an eighteen-month hiatus at the behest of the Doctor Who-hating BBC executive Michael Grade, by the time McCoy took over the reins in 1987, audience figures had slumped.

Henceforth, subsisting on nothing more than instant coffee and Japanese takeaway, Ben embarked on the epic personal journey that was to lead to Rivers of London (or Midnight Riot as it is known in the Americas).īen Aaronovitch currently resides in London and says that he will leave when they pry his city from his cold dead fingers.If you're a Doctor Who fan, there's a good chance that the name of Rivers of London's creator, Ben Aaronovitch, rings a bell.

He would write his own books, he would let prose into his heart and rejoice in the word. Ironically it was while shelving the works of others that Ben finally saw the light. With his girlfriend Beverley’s pregnancy and the death of Martin Chorley, once known as the Faceless Man, Peter is entering a new chapter of life. Trapped in a cycle of disappointment and despair Ben was eventually forced to support his expensive book habit by working for Waterstones as a bookseller. Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in Londons Metropolitan Police. Dear Ben Aaronovitch, I’ve enjoyed all but one of your books in the Rivers of London series, so I was happy to obtain an ARC of False Value, book number eight. Then Ben entered a dark time illuminated only by an episode of Dark Knight, a book for Big Finish and the highly acclaimed but not-very-well-paying Blake’s 7 Audio dramas. He then wrote for Virgin’s New Adventures until they pulped all his books.

He wrote for Doctor Who, Casualty and the world’s cheapest ever SF soap opera Jupiter Moon. Discovering in his early twenties that he had precisely one talent, he took up screenwriting at which he was an overnight success.