Prodigies who burst out of the gate brimming with ambition and attitude are all well and good, but there’s something to be said for screenwriters who’ve been around people and bring a sense of life’s complexities to the page. One of the best examples is Tony Schumacher, the 59-year-old from Liverpool responsible for creating one of the best British shows in recent years: 2022’s police procedural The Responder, which took Martin Freeman’s fractured uniformed officer to the edge.