In 1996 Pope was appointed Head of Factual Drama at LWT before moving to Granada Television in the same role.

[6] In addition to winning a BAFTA for the television drama See No Evil: The Moors Murders in 2007, Pope was also nominated in 2001 for My Beautiful Son, and again in 2004 for Dirty Filthy Love.

In 2015, Pope's contributions were recognised when he received the Alan Clarke special BAFTA award.

Pope wrote the screenplay for Stan & Ollie (2018), a biographical comedy-drama film based on the lives of the comedy double act Laurel and Hardy, starring Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.

[9][10][11] His series Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes is set to be released on Disney+ in 2025.