Simon Allen

Simon Allen is a British Screenwriter/Producer. He is the Co-creator, Writer and Executive Producer of original horror CHOOSE OR DIE which went to Number One on Netflix in the UK, US and around the world, stars Asa Butterfield, Iola Evans, Eddie Marsan and Robert Englund and features the first film score by The Prodigy's Liam Howlett. Simon Allen's television credits include writing and Co-Executive Producing Season 3 of Apple's Emmy-winning spy thriller TEHRAN and creating/showrunning BBC America’s RTS-winning fantasy comedy THE WATCH. Simon Allen served as a writer/producer on the first series of the acclaimed television sequel to Wolfgang Petersen’s DAS BOOT for Sky/Sonar/Hulu having previously served as a showrunner on the third series of THE MUSKETEERS for BBC One.

Works

Das Boot

An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.

Release Date2018-11-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count138

Strike Back

The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.

Release Date2010-05-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count364

Tehran

Tamar is a Mossad hacker-agent who infiltrates Tehran under a false identity to help destroy Iran's nuclear reactor. But when her mission fails, Tamar must plan an operation that will place everyone dear to her in jeopardy.

Release Date2020-06-22

DepartmentProduction

JobCo-Executive Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count279

The Musketeers

Set in 17th century Paris, musketeers Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan are members of an elite band of soldiers who fight for what is just. They are heroes in the truest and most abiding sense – men that can be trusted and believed in to do the right thing, regardless of personal risk.

Release Date2014-01-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count188

M.I. High

A team of undercover teenage spies working for the fictional British secret intelligence agency MI9 who have to balance their school life with their jobs as secret agents.

Release Date2007-01-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count18

The Watch

A group of misfit cops rise up from decades of helplessness to save their corrupt city from catastrophe. Inspired by the characters created by Sir Terry Pratchett’s famous “Discworld” novels.

Release Date2021-01-03

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count68

Hunted

Samantha Hunter suspects someone within the private intelligence agency she works at tried to kill her and she seeks to uncover the person behind it.

Release Date2012-10-04

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count97

New Tricks

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.

Release Date2004-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count57

Spotless

In London, the life of Jean, a troubled crime scene cleaner, is turned upside down when his outlaw brother Martin crash lands into his world, entangling them in the deadly dynamics of organized crime.

Release Date2015-03-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count34

The Interceptor

A gripping eight-part series about a state-of-the-art law enforcement team whose unswerving mission is to hunt down some of Britain’s most dangerous criminals. The Interceptor delves into the adventures of a dedicated surveillance team known as the UNIT. Keeping their quarries under ultra-tight surveillance, they take us into the real world inhabited by the criminals of today. And it’s easy to recognize because it’s the same world the rest of us inhabit.

Release Date2015-06-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count19

Choose or Die

In pursuit of an unclaimed $125,000 prize, a broke college dropout decides to play an obscure, 1980s survival computer game. But the game curses her, and she’s faced with dangerous choices and reality-warping challenges. After a series of unexpectedly terrifying moments, she realizes she’s no longer playing for the money but for her life.

Release Date2022-04-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count822

Floor 9.5

After a long shift at work, a girl is trapped into a scary dimension from which there seems to be no escape.

Release Date2018-02-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

Fables of Forgotten Things

A mysterious drifter and his young friend must save a frightened, forgetful old lady from a memory eating ghost.

Release Date2008-09-01

DepartmentCrew

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Breathe

A young man falls in love with a ghost you can only see when you don't Breathe.

Release Date2013-08-31

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

The Magic Mile

Healing and boundless possibility come together in this original short film from the UK. When a deaf girl chances on an abandoned wheelchair, she discovers the incredible secret of 'the magic mile.' Finding herself in a strange and unfamiliar world, she picks up on the trail of the wheelchair's owner who reveals that even miracles have their limits.

Release Date2005-08-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

A Fairytale of Forgotten Things

Have you ever stumbled across something you've long since forgotten about - what if somebody put it there for you to find?

Release Date2005-08-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter