Michael Aitkens is a British writer of drama scripts for movies, television, and the traditional stage. He is well known in the UK for the BAFTA nominated BBC situation comedy Waiting for God, first shown in 1990. He has written for many of the UK's favourite drama and comedy series. Michael Aitkens was educated at Haileybury. He then lived in Australia for ten years and Los Angeles, U.S. for two years, and graduated from the AFI Conservatory in 1981. More than 150 of his scripts have been produced in the UK, US and Australia. He now lives in London, where he works as a writer/producer, mainly on his own original series, and has recently formed his own independent production company, DAISYLU and is an occasional humorous newspaper columnist. He has been a core writer for Midsomer Murders since 2006. [More at Wikipedia]

January 1st, 1947 in United Kingdom (Age 77)