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Mr. Biffo, real name Paul Rose, was the editor of the Teletext-based video games magazine Digitiser, which ran between 1993 and 2003. He has written for numerous magazines, including Empire, Total Film, .net, Official PlayStation Magazine and Deathray, Retro Gamer, and from 2003 to 2008 wrote a monthly column in Edge entitled Biffovision.

He is now a scriptwriter for children's television, working on shows such as Half Moon Investigations, Barking!, The Worst Witch, Sooty, My Parents Are Aliens, and a number of adult comedy shows, including a sketch for the new series of The Armstrong and Miller Show, as well an episode of UK soap opera EastEnders. He is the co-creator of the CBBC children's sitcom Dani's House, on which he is also lead writer.

He also devised the storyline for the multi-format game Future Tactics. He was nominated for a BAFTA award in 2004 for Best Children's Drama Bafta Home - The BAFTA site, but was beaten by Featherboy and has won a Sony Radio Academy Award for his writing on the Christian O'Connell breakfast show on XFM.

Rose has written a book entitled Confessions of a Chatroom Freak (original print only, as the publishers, Friday Books, have gone into liquidation), a number of non-broadcast television pilots and one TV pilot which was broadcast on BBC3, but not taken-up, Biffovision, co-written with Tim Moore.

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