Hime was born in 1978 in
London. He was a fan of
Doctor Who in his youth. He began his career as a playwright in 1998, releasing the play
About the Boy that same year. Other plays he had written included
Small Hours (at Hampstead Theatre), as well
London Falls and
London Tongue at the Old Red Lion Theatre. He also worked in radio, winning the 2007 Prix Italia award for Best Original Radio Drama for his radio play,
The Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body. On television, Hime has written for the fourth and fifth series of the teen drama
Skins. Hime was attached to work on a new series of
Sapphire & Steel with
Luther creator
Neil Cross. However, the project was never produced. In 2018, he wrote the ninth and penultimate episode of the
eleventh series of
Doctor Who,
It Takes You Away. He returned to write the third episode of the
twelfth series,
Orphan 55. He co-wrote the seventh episode of
The Watch, which is inspired by the
Ankh-Morpork City Watch from the
Discworld series of fantasy novels by
Terry Pratchett. He wrote three of the eight episodes of
Lockwood & Co., the
Netflix series about teenage ghost hunters released in 2023. ==Filmography==