Mr. Biffo, real name Paul Rose, was the editor of the hugely popular Teletext-based video games magazine Digitiser, which ran between 1993 and 2003. Renowned for his incisive, witty writing style, and honest, uncompromising opinions, he became one of Britain's most highly respected video games journalists, and continues to write a monthly column in Edge. A BBC Ceefax page from the 10th September 1999. ... Digitiser (not to be confused with a digitizer) was a video games magazine that was broadcast on the Teletext service on Channel 4 in the UK from 1993 to 2003, and (save for nine months during 2002 when it went to three days a week) was updated daily. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII in Roman) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The cover of Edge issue 146 from February 2005. ...

In more recent times, he has become a successful scriptwriter for television, working on children's shows such as Barking!, The Worst Witch and My Parents Are Aliens, as well as UK soap operas such as Crossroads and EastEnders. He also devised the storyline for the PlayStation 2 game Future Tactics. He was nominated for a BAFTA award in 2004 for Best Children's Drama, and has won a Sony Radio Academy Award for his writing on the Christian O'Connell breakfast show on XFM. The Worst Witch is a series of childrens books written and illustrated by Jill Murphy. ... My Parents Are Aliens is a British childrens comedy on CiTV about a crazy family which started in 1999. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... A crossroads (the word rarely appears in singular) is another word for road junction, where two or more roads meet (there are three or more arms). ... EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera which was first broadcast on 19 February 1985. ... The PlayStation 2 (PS2) (Japanese: プレイステーション2) is Sonys second video game console, the successor to the PlayStation and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3. ... The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Sony Radio Academy Awards (the Sonys), started in 1983, are some of the most prestigious awards in the British radio industry. ... Christian OConnell promotional photo Christian OConnell is a British radio DJ who presents the Virgin Radio weekday breakfast show. ... Xfm is the name of two British radio stations owned by GCap Media: Xfm London has been broadcasting since 1997. ...

Rose's influential style of writing on Digitiser has been described as edgy and risque, backed by a surreal and unique sense of humour - traits he appears to have carried over into his screenwriting.

He once managed to provoke complaints over his episode of EastEnders where the character Dirty Den uttered the phrase "Big constables" in a way that implied profanity. Dirty Den Watts was a character in the British soap opera EastEnders played by actor Leslie Grantham. ...

Rose is married with three children, and lives in North London. North London is that part of London which is north of the River Thames. ...

External links

• MrBiffo.com - Paul Rose's website
• Paul Rose at The Internet Movie Database
• NTSC-uk Interview with Mr Biffo