CLOSE TO THE EDIT
RASHEED BELLO used to think Doctor Who was too scary. But as the show’s new assistant script editor tells PAUL KIRKLEY, he’s bravely emerged from behind the sofa…
Rasheed Bello, the new assistant script editor on Doctor Who.
“I just love stories,” says Rasheed Bello. “For as long as I can remember, writing is something I’ve always wanted to do. I know it sounds a bit crazy, but my ambition, for a really long time, has been to write the greatest romance of all time...”
Well, that particular dream will have to wait, because right now Rasheed is knee deep in monsters and spaceships and terror and… okay, yes, a little romance, too, as Doctor Who’s new assistant script editor.
A law graduate from Bristol, the 25-year-old’s interest in storytelling led him to join Channel 4’s production training scheme, before spending a year at Bad Wolf as a trainee script and development editor. After a short stint
in the North West as a script researcher on
Hollyoaks,
he’s been lured back to Cardiff by his former employers
to work as script editor Scott Handcock’s assistant, helping plot Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson’s upcoming adventures in space and time.