Simon Ashdown

Simon Ashdown is a British television writer, best known as being a BAFTA award-winning EastEnders writer.

EastEnders
Ashdown has been writing for EastEnders since 1995, and was involved in writing storylines for the Slater family. He, along with other writers, actually wrote the characters around the actors themselves, rather than the other way around. He wrote a special television episode of EastEnders focusing on Ricky Butcher and Bianca Jackson. He is currently EastEnders story consultant, in which he created the role of Max Branning and developed the Stacey Slater / Max affair storyline, and the death of the show's matriarch Pauline Fowler in Christmas 2006. he was responsible for the The Secret Mitchell storyline.

Other Programmes
Having written for the BBC One medical drama Casualty, more recently, he is becoming known as one of two writers of Funland (the other being Jeremy Dyson of The League of Gentlemen), a television series that first aired on 23 October 2005 on digital channel BBC Three. Even before the first episode, it was already billed as the next Little Britain in terms of success and it has been described as an innovative comedy.