Why my new hopeful BBC drama Babies is the culmination of a decade’s exploration into grief

Until then, my life felt a bit like a simple online search – easy and straightforward. I’d been writing a comedy series called Him & Her, and while I was happy it was finishing, I’d pictured revisiting the characters occasionally for special episodes, maybe even indefinitely. But that wasn’t going to happen. Something had changed, and I couldn’t write with the same freedom anymore. The next decade, and three more TV shows, would be spent processing what had occurred.