Gough creates and runs television in a long standing partnership, and Wednesday is their most widely seen work: a boarding school mystery built around a character defined by refusing to react, played with the school story's usual machinery of cliques, secrets and an unsympathetic institution.
He co-created a long running series about a superhero's adolescence that ran for a decade, establishing the pair's central preoccupation with young characters concealing what they are from the people who love them. They have also worked in action features and in a martial arts television series, and they write and show run together throughout, having never taken a credit separately.
Recurring subjects: concealment, adolescence as a period of hiding an identity, and institutions that claim to protect while quietly controlling the people inside them. Their structure combines a season long mystery with episodic incidents, and they write comic dialogue that performers can deliver flatly, which suits deadpan leads and keeps the humour from softening the character.
Their superhero adolescence series ran for ten seasons and shaped a generation of genre television aimed at younger audiences. Their supernatural school series became one of the most watched productions on streaming and drove renewed interest in the property behind it.
For viewers who want genre television about teenagers that takes them seriously. Suited to families with older children, and to anyone interested in how a long running formula gets rebuilt for a new platform.
