David Blair is a British television director and film director. He has directed numerous television dramas, including Takin' Over the Asylum (1994), The Lakes (1997), and The Street (2006–2009). Blair's work is recognized for its depth and character-driven storytelling.
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.
Release Date1992-12-06
Charactersd Martins
Episode Count2
Vote Count73
James Bolam portrays serial killer Dr. Harold Shipman in this made-for-TV drama. The film follows the story of Shipman, a general practitioner who throughout his career is believed to have killed as many as 250 of his patients. When the high death rate of his practice was investigated, it was discovered that he had given lethal doses of diamorphine to a vast number of his patients. He was put on trial where he was convicted of 15 murders and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Release Date2002-07-09
Charactersd DC Mark Denham
Vote Count3
How certain people end up being accused of a crime.
Release Date2010-11-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count53
Criminal Martin Cahill gets in trouble when a major robbery succeeds. He aims for more trouble when he tries to do a large art robbery
Release Date1999-02-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men'. Set in Nottingham, the film revolves around the relationship between the thuggish Danny (Stephen Graham) and Joseph (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), a giant of a man with a mental age of seven. When Danny finds himself in debt to a local crime boss, he feels he is left with no choice but to manipulate Joseph into participating in a series of underground cage fights from which Danny can pay his debts.
Release Date2012-02-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count28
Polish pilots overcome prejudice to fight against the Luftwaffe with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in the hope of protecting both Great Britain and their own Poland from the German advance.
Release Date2018-09-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count181
Jenny, a single mother raising two daughters after her husband leaves, is aided by her widowed mother, Mary. But Jenny struggles to stay afloat after Mary suffers a devastating stroke and develops dementia.
Release Date2018-12-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
A series of plays specially written for television.
Release Date1988-01-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
In the 17th century, long before modern science and in a time of great fear of the unknown, the villagers of a small coastal community find themselves drawn to, and suspicious of, Morag, a remarkable but mysterious woman who is uniquely connected to the nature that surrounds her. Survival is a daily and all-consuming struggle that is thinly forged from an inclement sea and pushed to the edge of the land by merciless feudal landowners. But it is Morag's passionate relationship with John Tullock, who is unwittingly pledged to marry Sinéad, that threatens to tear the community apart.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Detective Inspector Ray Lennox investigates the disappearance of a schoolgirl while battling cocaine addiction and a mental breakdown.
Release Date2021-11-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count36
Strap in for a rollercoaster ride through the emotional worlds of love and royalty in an original WE Channel movie exploring the enduring, 30-year romance shared between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles. Decades before the fairy tale wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, the young prince and his longtime sweetheart found their growing love tragically clipped by the many demands of royalty and the sometimes rough waters of romance. Though he had previously exchanged vows with the glamorous Diana, Prince Charles never truly forgot about Parker-Bowles, and in this film Anglophiles and royalty scholars alike will finally learn the truth behind one of the highest profile romances in modern history.
Release Date2005-12-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
The story of Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble connections.
Release Date2008-09-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count57
Anthology drama following the lives and passions of neighbors on a northern English street.
Release Date2006-04-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count18
Vote Count12
Playhouse Presents is a series of self-contained TV plays, made by British broadcaster Sky Arts. The series started airing on 12 April 2012, on Sky Arts 1. Each episode is written by a different writer and stars a different cast. The four-part adaptation of A Country Doctor's Notebook was also broadcast on the strand in December 2012. Sky Arts have announced that they are ordering a five-part spin-off of the third play, Nixon’s The One. They say the full cast, including Harry Shearer as Nixon and Henry Goodman as Kissinger, will return for the series run, which will be filmed in September 2012. The series will broadcast in 2013. The second series began airing in April 2013 featuring Kathy Burke, Frances Barber, Julia Davis, Idris Elba, Anna Friel, Rebecca Front, Stephen Graham, David Harewood, Ian Hart, Sharon Horgan, Mathew Horne, Suranne Jones, Kylie Minogue, Vanessa Redgrave, Peter Serafinowicz, Matt Smith, Johnny Vegas, Marc Warren, Jack Whitehall and Reggie Yates.
Release Date2012-04-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
An anthology series of horror stories by contemporary British screenwriters.
Release Date1999-10-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Thrown together just five weeks before the final of the 1948 London Olympics, Bert Bushnell (Doctor Who's Matt Smith) and Dickie Burnell (Sam Hoare) defied all the odds and made history in the double sculls. This is the story of how they did it - not only by pushing physical and emotional limits, but also by overcoming their vast professional and personal differences.
Release Date2012-07-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
A slimy television host, who makes a living by embarrassing celebrities, is tricked into revealing some dark secrets of his own.
Release Date2001-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
A story set in the north English seaside town of Blackpool and centered on two kindred spirits who form an unlikely friendship.
Release Date2016-06-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count22
The life of Jimmy Savile, a man who, for decades, became one of the UK’s most influential celebrities, but in death has become one of the most reviled figures of modern history following revelations of extensive and horrific abuse.
Release Date2023-10-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count23
A salesman starts to run a hospital radio station inside a facility for people with mental heath needs.
Release Date1994-09-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count20
The true story of the courageous families of four young gay men who lost their lives to killer Stephen Port. Facing police failings, they fought for justice for their loved ones.
Release Date2022-01-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count39
Mr. Whicher is hired by former Home Secretary Sir Edward Shore to investigate the violent threats made against his son Charles, who has recently returned from India with his family.
Release Date2014-09-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count14
The Lakes is a mystery drama created and written by Jimmy McGovern for BBC1. The first series – comprised of four episodes – broadcast from 14 September to 5 October 1997. A second series of ten episodes ran from 10 January to 14 March 1999. Danny Kavanagh leaves Liverpool for the Lake District, finding work at a hotel and love with a local girl named Emma. Yet Danny remains an outsider in the close-knit community, and through the machinations of fate, he finds himself implicated in a tragedy. The secrets, lies, and crimes, of the seemingly tranquil community continue to be revealed.
Release Date1997-09-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count11
When 17-year-old Johnjo gives his cousin and his friends a lift, he finds himself implicated in a stabbing.
Release Date2014-07-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count26
In June 2003, Reg Keys and his wife Sally return to their home in the Welsh countryside. As they switch on the TV to hear six military policemen have been murdered in Iraq, two men arrive bearing the terrible news that their son, Tom, was among them.
Release Date2016-06-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count10
A 35-year-old woman awakens from an 18-year coma to an unfamiliar world and tries to make sense of a past her family and friends don’t want to dig up.
Release Date2007-06-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
In 1991 50-year old John Lennon, living on the dole in Birmingham and following the moderate success of the Beatles, recalls how he left the band in 1962 after they were persuaded to release 'How Do You Do It?' as a single, rather than 'Love Me Do'.
Release Date2013-04-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Two old men in a nursing home engage in an ongoing competition. When the home is due to receive a visit from a member of the royal family, only one of them will be able to be represented.
Release Date1990-08-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Black Watch Sergeant Alec Ritchie and his new wife Jennifer move to a rundown sheep farm in the Scottish countryside.
Release Date1992-05-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
The story of three generations told against the backdrop of the 20th century. The drama focuses on the life of Mary Corrigan, from her days as a rebellious mill worker in 1915 and her doomed love affair for a man who must fight for his country, through to her final days in the run up to the British General Election of 1997.
Release Date2003-09-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A series of four short dramas depicting life in lockdown. Each episode will be 15 minutes in duration and will reflect what families are going through after weeks of isolation. The series will be filmed observing the strict rules of lockdown with actors and their families filming the scenes themselves watched remotely by the directors. Each of the directors — Paul Whittington, Paul Andrew Williams, Louise Hooper and David Blair — will be watching footage via their mobile phones and giving advice to the actors and their family members about camera positioning, scene composition and lighting as they record the scenes.
Release Date2020-05-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count4
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation. A four-part British television adaptation of Tolstoy's novel.
Release Date2000-05-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count11
Malice Aforethought is a 2005 ITV drama based on Anthony Berkeley Cox’s 1931 novel of the same name, made by Granada Television. There was an earlier BBC television adaptation of this novel in 1979. Dr. Edmund Bickleigh is married to a particularly overbearing woman who reminds him at every turn that he is living in her house. But the good doctor has outside interests to help him cope.
Release Date2005-04-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count9
Four-part series that studies the personal lives of folk in a remote Scottish fishing village that is coming to terms with rationalisation, and globalisation of its fishing industry.
Release Date1996-01-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
The Messenger is the story of Jack’s last melt down: a story of frustration and guilt, love and betrayal, family and blame. Unwillingly becoming embroiled in the unfinished business of Mark, a journalist brutally murdered in the local park and his television presenter wife, Sarah, to whom he’s desperate to say one last goodbye, Jack finds himself getting closer to Sarah, obsessed with passing on Mark’s message. Discovering hidden secrets and lies finally pushes the fragile Jack over the edge but there is hope when his estranged sister, Emma, gets in touch. Jack starts to remember the past they shared together and as the memories come flooding back, he confronts the truth about the death of his father.
Release Date2015-07-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count26
A split-second decision made in a fit of rage drives attorney and family man Michael Anderson to desperate measures.The stressed-out lawyer hits his melting point one fateful day, when he runs away from the consequences of his actions.
Release Date1999-08-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Quirky stranger Donovan (Colin Firth) blows into the Scottish village of Port Clyde. There, he rents a room with the Pannick family and ingratiates himself into their lives. Lucy (Katy Murphy) is the long-suffering matriarch of the clan, caring for her senile grandmother (Liz Smith) and mentally disabled brother, Sandy (David Brown). When the town cancels Sandy's train route to school, Donovan suggests starting their own bus line. They do, much to the consternation of local officials.
Release Date2000-12-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
Release Date2003-12-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count10
A 35 year old woman, Kate, awakes from an eighteen year coma following a tragic accident to an unfamiliar world. As she tries to make sense of what has happened her family and old school friends are reluctant to dig up the past.
Release Date2007-06-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Oldham lads Rick and Shaun are videoing their Spanish holiday for their mate Paul when they meet the worldly Alex,who takes them back to his villa for drugs and sex with two Scottish girls. Next day the boys wake to find the others gone and blood everywhere. They clean it up and are about to leave when Alex's friend Thomas arrives,three bodies are found and Thomas suggests to each boy that the other was a murderer whilst high on drugs. Having successfully been turned against each other what will the boys do? And are they to believe everything they see?
Release Date2001-05-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Georgie Godwin is the fattest man in Britain. A tourist attraction, thanks to greedy 'agent, cabbie Morris. Devoted neighbour Janice is Georgie's only other regular outside contact until he meets Amy, a pregnant teenager fleeing a violent boyfriend ,whom he takes in as a lodger. Amy tries to help Georgie change his lifestyle, but Morris is more than keen to stop her ruining his tourist attraction.
Release Date2009-12-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count12
A terrifying psychological thriller set near the beautiful landscape of Glacier National Park, Montana. Two high school friends, Travis and Nate, are on a road trip to Canada when they're attacked by mysterious and vicious creatures. Nate is stolen into the woods and Travis will stop at nothing to get him back. Travis recruits Nate's older brother Chris to bring an arsenal and wage war against these monsters in an effort to retrieve Nate.
Release Date2016-05-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count24
Dylan, a fatherless 17-year-old desperate for belonging, is groomed by a violent local kingpin offering protection, power, and a warped sense of family, pulling him into a brutal struggle between loyalty, survival, and the life he may never escape.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
