[2] He is the creator and writer of the BBC1 mystery thriller series The Pact and has written various television productions in the UK and internationally including Doctor Who, The Rising, Glitch, Nowhere Boys and A Discovery of Witches.
[21] The BBC press release quoted him as saying, "My entire television career has quite literally been an elaborate plan to get to write Doctor Who – and no one is more shocked than me that it paid off.
[26] He writes and directs regular short films featuring classic Doctors and companions to promote the release of The Collection sets.
novelisation for the revived Target Books series,[28] as well as the additional material created for the Tales of the TARDIS re-releases of The Mind Robber and The Curse of Fenric.
In 2024, it was announced McTighe co-wrote The War Between the Land and the Sea alongside Russell T Davies, a Doctor Who spin-off.
[30] McTighe created and wrote the BBC1 mystery thriller series The Pact which aired in May 2021, starring Laura Fraser, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Rakie Ayola, Eiry Thomas, Aneurin Barnard and Jason Hughes.
[36] In June 2019, McTighe joined the second season of Sky/BBC America supernatural series A Discovery of Witches as a writer and executive producer.
[38] In 2023, it was announced Bronte Pictures will produce McTighe's 1978, a period musical film about Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.