Born and bred in Birmingham, Simon's career began in 1993 as script editor and writer on the BBC teen drama Byker Grove. He went on to create and write Ant & Dec's early series for the BBC and C4. Simon joined World Productions in 1997, where he became Head of Drama in 2002 and Creative Director and CEO in 2009.
The mysterious disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler and a death on-board the submarine HMS Vigil bring the police into conflict with the Navy and British security services. DCI Amy Silva and DS Kirsten Longacre lead an investigation on land and at sea into a conspiracy that goes to the very heart of Britain’s national security.
Release Date2021-08-29
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count241
A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.
Release Date2018-08-26
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count1040
8 August 1963: Britain wakes up to news of the biggest robbery in the country’s history. A train has been hijacked and robbed, 35 miles from its arrival in central London. The country is stunned. Who could be behind it? How did they pull off such an audacious raid?
Release Date2013-12-18
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count2
Vote Count67
When a 25-year-old murder in St Andrews becomes the subject of a provocative true-crime podcast, DS Karen Pirie is tasked with heading up a review. Digging up the past, Karen uncovers fresh evidence and a potential perpetrator. But when suspects start coming under attack, the cold case turns into an active investigation. Can Karen find the killer before it’s too late?
Release Date2022-09-25
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count3
Vote Count79
Follow the investigation into the crash of Pan Am 103 from both sides of the Atlantic and discover the devastating effect it had on the small town and the families who lost loved ones.
Release Date2025-05-18
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count9
United is based on the true story of Manchester United's legendary "Busby Babes", the youngest side ever to win the Football League and the 1958 Munich Air Crash that claimed eight of the their number. The film draws on first-hand interviews with the survivors and their families to tell the inspirational story of a team and community overcoming terrible tragedy.
Release Date2011-01-02
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count165
Nelson "Nelly" Rowe's life is turned upside down when he is arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his thirteen-year-old daughter Jody, whom he hasn't seen in ten years. After convincing the police of his innocence, and frustrated with the way the case is progressing, he decides to take matters into his own hands and track down Jody himself.
Release Date2018-02-28
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count43
London, 1886. Unbeknownst to his loyal wife Winnie, Verloc, a Soho store owner, works as a secret agent for a powerful foreign government.
Release Date2016-07-17
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count3
Vote Count12
Dr Lucinda Edwards is a smart, battle-hardened doctor, but we meet her on a nightmare shift that ends in the death of an opioid overdose victim, Edith Owusu. Despite the support of her medical supervisor, Dr Leo Harris, Edith’s grieving father Sir Anthony Owusu, demands an enquiry into Lucinda’s actions on the fateful night.
Release Date2023-04-23
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count5
Vote Count26
Based on the extraordinary true story of Alec Jeffreys' discovery of DNA fingerprinting and its first use by Detective Chief Superintendent David Baker in catching a double murderer.
Release Date2015-04-06
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count2
Vote Count51
Mike and Luce aim to turn their website SeeThru into a fully-fledged internet start-up.
Release Date2000-09-26
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count26
Vote Count4
Detective superintendent reopens two unsolved murder cases from the 1980s. Forensic methods link the crimes to a string of burglaries. Steve's team has to find more evidence before the perpetrator is released from prison.
Release Date2021-01-11
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count3
Vote Count92
A extraordinary true story of Delia Balmer, who survived a near-fatal relationship with murderer John Sweeney. The series narrates the ordeal Delia suffered at the hands of John Sweeney, and her traumatic journey through the police and criminal justice system as they attempt to prosecute him for his crimes.
Release Date2024-04-07
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count4
Vote Count29
Former gang boss turned respected businessman, Richie Beckett pledge money to help rebuild a pier. But Richie's mind is deteriorating, and the other outfit he runs with his sons is under attack by a vicious rival gang.
Release Date2012-12-03
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count4
Vote Count16
Follows the police operation in 2010 to apprehend fugitive Raoul Moat. He went to Northumbria after killing one person and wounding two others.
Release Date2023-04-16
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count3
Vote Count12
Anne Williams, from Formby, near Liverpool, was devastated by the loss of her son, 15-year-old Kevin, who was tragically killed at the FA Cup semi-final in 1989 between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Anne stood defiantly alongside other parents and their families who fought for justice for the 96 loved ones who lost their lives at a football match.
Release Date2022-01-02
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count4
Vote Count18
The story of Victorian serial killer Mary Ann Cotton, a poisoner whose methods leave no visible scars, allowing her tally of victims to mount, unsuspected by a Victorian society unable to conceive of a woman capable of such terrible crimes. Traveling around the North East, she insinuates herself into unsuspecting families, marrying and creating new families of her own - before killing them, taking their money and moving on.
Release Date2016-10-31
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count2
Vote Count37
A violent attack on a teenager at an illegal beach rave sends shockwaves of suspicion through a Merseyside community. As secrets and lies are laid bare, will the truth emerge?
Release Date2024-05-14
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count11
Based on the true story of Lanarkshire detective William Muncie’s quest to bring to justice notorious Scottish killer Peter Manuel.
Release Date2016-12-07
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count3
Vote Count29
Follow Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Yakov Liebermann across three decades from the immediate aftermath of World War II through the political turbulence of the 1970s in his lifelong crusade to bring Nazi fugitives to justice, a crusade that has cost him nearly everything.
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count1
Goldplated is an eight-part drama series from World Productions which made its debut on Channel 4 on Wednesday 18 October 2006 at 10.00pm. It follows self-made businessman John White, as he struggles to complete a business deal that could be compromised by past indiscretions. Similarly to The Sopranos White's personal life is intertwined with his business life. He lives with his partner Cassidy, who is half his age, and their son, while in the process of divorcing his wife Beth. His oldest son Darren is his business partner, while his other two children with Beth also feature. Kenny Doughty also stars in 4 episodes as Cassidy's love interest. Despite a massive promotional effort that included a nationwide poster campaign featuring giant Gold Credit cards across Great Britain the drama fared disastrously in the ratings, drawing only 1.4 million viewers for its opening episode. Even though the series appeared to have a massive fanbase, the ratings figures dropped to half of that number over the following two weeks, prompting Channel 4 to shunt the remaining episodes to a late-night slot and to cancel Saturday repeats and 'first look' screenings on E4.
Release Date2006-10-18
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count8
Vote Count1
A year after her mother's death, Hannah resumes her training at one of the country's top teaching hospitals. She is soon terrified by strange visions and the threatening behaviour of her ex-boyfriend and star surgeon Nick and wonders if she has come back too soon. But beneath the hospital's reputation of medical excellence she discovers a secret network of dangerous experiments pushing back the boundaries of science.
Release Date2010-06-03
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count9
Drama based on real-life events. Marie Stubbs, a diminutive Glaswegian headmistress who is coming up to retirement age, takes on one last challenge: to improve the fortunes of St George's School in north west London which was facing closure after the notorious murder of its previous headmaster, Philip Lawrence, in 1995 as he was breaking up a fight between his pupils and those from a rival school.
Release Date2005-08-05
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count4
A series of ten 10-minute films – some humorous, some dramatic – capturing key in the lives of taxi drivers and their passengers. Among these journeys, a man visits his lover, a gay prostitute goes to work, two girls party on Christmas Eve, an American tourist sees 'real' London, and a cabbie helps a woman in distress.
Release Date2000-05-08
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
In 1980, two Cork outsiders, Cathal Coughlan and Sean O’Hagan, met at a New Year's Eve party. Bonding over music, a friendship and songwriting partnership was ignited; the band they formed, Microdisney, was one of the best bands of the 1980s that you’ve probably never heard. Mixing Sean’s stunning melodic arrangements with Cathal’s poetic, angry lyrics, they recorded three brilliant LPs, gained critical adulation and an obsessive cult following. But a hit single eluded them, as did radio play and LP sales. By 1988, frustrated by their lack of progress, the band crashed and burned, leaving a trail of acrimony and broken friendships.
Release Date2024-03-15
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Following the death of her beloved grandson Michael, widowed Glaswegian Thana becomes the target of a violent local gang, who Michael apparently crossed. Thana finds salvation in the form of Connor, a volatile friend of Michael's with serious anger issues. Grams will see Thana and Connor form an unlikely partnership, as they seek the truth of what really happened to Michael.
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
