The Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin

Big Talk for a Apple TV+ 2022

Co-Created and Written By

Directed by Ben Palmer

Starring Noel Fielding

Green lit 6 x 30 min comedy adventure series about legendary English highwayman Dick Turpin.

Around The World In Eighty Days

Slim TV for multiple broadcasters 2020

Episode Four Co-Written By

Directed By Steve Barron

Starring David Tennant, Leonie Benesch, Ibrahim Koma

Green lit 8 x 1 hour new adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic tale. A joint commission from France Télévisions, Germany’s ZDF and Italy’s RAI it will also have distribution in Australia on Seven West Media and in the UK on BBC 1.

Timewasters Series Two

Big Talk for ITV2 2018

Co-Written By/Additional Material

Directed By George Kane

Starring Daniel Lawrence Taylor, Samson Kayo, Kadiff Kirwan, Adelayo Adedayo

Green lit sitcom about a London jazz quartet who inadvertently travel through time to the 1950s.

Block

Tiger Aspect 2018

Co-Created and Written By

Sitcom pilot commission about a group of residents who come together to save their tower block from demolition in inner city Birmingham

Helmets

Hare and Tortoise 2018

Co-Created and Written By

Sitcom pilot commission about neighbourhood policing in rural England amid the realities of government cutbacks. 

In The Long Run

Green Door/Sprout for SKY 1 2017

Co-Written By

Directed By Declan Lowney, Cecile Emike

Starring Idris Elba, Bill Bailey, Jimmy Akingbola, Kellie Shirley

A green lit sitcom based on the childhood of Idris Elba, growing up in 1980s Hackney.

Three Strange Angels

Stephen Garrett/Character 7 2016

Co-Adapted By

A one hour returning drama pilot script commission adapted from a feature script written by Peter Straughan.

Steal Away

Alison Owen/Monumental Pictures 2015/16

Co-Written By

A feature script commission telling the true story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, a choir of freed slaves in post civil war United States.

The Job Lot

Big Talk for ITV 2013-2015

Co-Created and Written By/Associate Produced By

Directed by Richard Laxton, Martin Dennis, Luke Snellin, Sasha Ransome

Starring Sarah Hadland, Russell Tovey, Laura Aikman, Adeel Akhtar, Nick Mohammed

A sitcom green lit for three series and broadcast on ITV 1 and 2 about the employees and customers of a fictional West Midlands job centre.

We Can Be Heroes

Thomasina Gibson 2016

Co-Adapted/Directed by

Starring Alison Steadman, Phil Davis, Steve Oram, Finty Williams

A green lit feature about Ben, a young boy still dealing with the loss of his father, who spends a summer with his grandparents in Birmingham and goes on a journey of discovery. Adapted from the book by Catherine Bruton.

Carters Get Rich

Roughcut TV for SKY 1 2016

Co-Created and Written By/Associate Produced By

Directed by Chris Cottam

Starring James Van Der Beek, Kerry Godliman, Rhashan Stone, John Finnemore

Green lit sitcom for Sky 1, Little Start Up is a sitcom about a family trying to keep their feet on the ground after their eleven year old son invents the next big thing on social media.

Minnie

Pacific Electric for NBC Universal/Fox 2016

Co-Created and Written By

A sitcom pilot script commission for the US about the happiest fat girl living in LA.

Tools

Roughcut TV for BBC 1 2014

Co-Created and Written By

Directed by Paul Harrison

Starring Mark Benton, Elizabeth Berrington, James Lance, Alan Williams

A two episode pilot script commission resulting in a live performance at the BBC Salford Showcase. Tools is a sitcom about the staff of Homezone, a large DIY and furniture store.

Dismissed

Roughcut TV for BBC 3 2011

Co-Created and Written By

A two episode script and taster tape commission about a well meaning but misguided drama teacher and his attempts to change the lives of the students at a tough Pupil Referral Unit.