Mark Oswain: Writer

Mark Oswin has written on a number CBBC shows including So Awkward, Still So Awkward, So Awkward Academy, Lagging, 4 O’Clock Club, Danger Mouse, Hank Zipzer, All At Sea, The Revolting World of Stanley Brown, Strange Hill High, Jinx, and Hotel Trubble. He co-created the BAFTA-winning CBBC online mystery drama Dixi.

Mark wrote Placebo for BBC Three, co-wrote Comedy Lab: Skin Deep for Channel 4, co-wrote on Trexx & Flipside for BBC Three as well as writing and performing on the BBC Two sketch show Comedy Nation.

He has written for ITV on Horrible Science and Aardman’s Lloyd of the Flies, for Boomerang on My Spy Family, for CBeebies on Supertato, and for Nickelodeon on Summer In Transylvania, Hunter Street and the award-winning Goldie’s Oldies – on which he was head writer. He has provided additional writing on 2020 feature film Four Kids and It, polished scripts across season 2 of CBBC’s Lagging and acted as Story Consultant for season 3, in addition to writing an episode. He also co-wrote the pilot episode of The Riddleswick Mysteries for CBBC with Lucy Guy and Julia Kent, and wrote one additional episode by himself.

Mark was BAFTA-nominated in 2014 for 4 O’Clock Club, in 2015 for All At Sea and again in 2017 for Hank Zipzer. He was nominated for WGGB Awards in 2015 for Strange Hill High and in 2017 for Danger Mouse. Mark’s episode of So Awkward AcademySeason 2 ‘Dirty Country Dancing’ was nominated for an RTS NW Award in 2025.

More recently, he has written episodes for The Dumping GroundSeason 14, High Hoops Season 2 and the brand-new series Girl Troop vs Aliens, all for CBBC. He is also working on an untitled feature film project for Timeless Films and an untitled animated series for BBC Ignite.