David Renwick

David Peter Renwick (born 4 September 1951 in Luton, Bedfordshire) is an English television writer, best known for creation of the sitcom One Foot in the Grave and the mystery series Jonathan Creek

Before beginning his full-time comedy writing career, he worked as a journalist on his home town newspaper, the Luton News.

On beginning his comedy career, he initially worked in a team with writing partner Andrew Marshall, the pair of them providing material to popular sketch shows such as The Two Ronnies and Not the Nine O'Clock News during the late 1970s and early 80s. One of the most celebrated sketches he wrote for the former was a parody of the BBC quiz programme Mastermind, where a "Charlie Smithers" chose to answer questions on the specialist subject "Answering the question before last". They also wrote The Burkiss Way for BBC Radio 4, occasionally accompanied by other writers on early episodes. Their short-lived LWT series for ITV, End of Part One, was an attempt to transfer Burkiss-style humour to television. Later in the 1980s they also wrote for the sketch show Alexei Sayle's Stuff and Spike Milligan's There's a Lot of It About.

Renwick began writing solo in 1990 when he created the sitcom One Foot in the Grave, starring Richard Wilson, which was highly successful and went on to be a popular hit for the following decade. It also ran for four seasons as an American re-make entitled Cosby, starring Bill Cosby, although this is generally regarded as a poor adaptation of the original.