Ashley Pharoah (born 13 September 1959) is a British television writer and co-creator of the successful drama series Life on Mars, which was first broadcast on BBC One in 2006. Pharoah was born in Somerset and educated at Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, a secondary school, in Bristol. For ITV, he created the long-running series Where the Heart Is, for which he wrote episodes from 1997 to 2000, and contributed to the BBC One TV programme Down to Earth in 2001. Among other work in the early 2000s, he scripted an adaptation of Tom Brown's Schooldays, starring Stephen Fry, for the ITV1 network in 2005.