David Nicholls (Writing)

One Day

After spending graduation night together, Emma and Dexter go their separate ways — but their lives remain intertwined.

Release Date:2024-02-08

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:14

Vote Count:212

Us

The poignant and hilarious story of the Petersens during their vacation across Europe where the father Douglas tries to win back the love of his wife Connie and become reconciled with their son Albie.

Release Date:2020-09-20

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:27

Patrick Melrose

A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.

Release Date:2018-05-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:269

Far from the Madding Crowd

In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a hardworking young sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.

Release Date:2015-04-23

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1033

How I Didn't Become a Piano Player

Ted, 9 year old, is the clumsiest boy in the world. Desperately searching for his vocation, he cannot find anything he is good at. The breakthrough arrives the day his father comes home with an old monstrous piano. Ted has the revelation: he will become the next Mozart. Based on the short story 'Every Good Boy' by David Nicholls.

Release Date:2014-10-24

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:1

Babel

Literature talkshow with Jessika Gedin.

Release Date:2014-03-16

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

The 7.39

Carl Matthews commutes by train to London where he works in a property management office under a boss who is pressuring him to dismiss an employee. He has a kind and supportive wife Maggie and two teenage children who he feels do not appreciate him. One morning he complains to a woman called Sally that she has taken his seat on the train. He later apologises to her and they start chatting, a relationship develops and she reveals that she is divorced but about to marry again, although scenes with her fiancée suggest she is going cold on the idea. She works at a health club and Carl joins it so that he can see more of her. They fall in love and one evening when the train is not running they spend the night together at a hotel. The second part of the drama deals with the repercussions of their affair.

Release Date:2014-01-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:58

Great Expectations

Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's Uncle Pumblechook to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with whom he falls in love, then Pip—a humble orphan—suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

Release Date:2012-11-30

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:346

One Day

A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.

Release Date:2011-03-02

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:4283

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

The story of Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble connections.

Release Date:2008-09-14

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:54

When Did You Last See Your Father?

The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.

Release Date:2007-10-05

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:64

Starter for 10

In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching University Challenge, a college quiz show. At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past.

Release Date:2006-09-13

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:411

Much Ado About Nothing

Tensions mount in the TV studio when a take-charge anchor is reunited with a man she has a "history" with.

Release Date:2005-11-07

Department:Writing

Job:Adaptation

Vote Count:4

ShakespeaRe-Told

Four of Shakespeare's plays are dramatically relocated to the modern day.

Release Date:2005-11-07

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:13

The Deal

It is approaching an election in the UK when the leader of the Labour party, John Smith, suffers another in a line of heart attacks and dies. With the leadership campaign about to start the clear choice appears to be Gordon Brown, a stanch Scotsman. However Tony Blair is also beginning to appear more likely as he will appeal to Southern voters who would be turned off by Brown. Blair rings Brown to arrange a meeting to discuss which will go for the job. The film flashbacks to the start of their relationship, sharing an office in Westminster on their first seats.

Release Date:2003-09-28

Character:Production Asst

Vote Count:24

Shockers: The Visitor

Four 20-somethings are coasting through life in a fashionable part of London. A misunderstanding leads to the introduction of a stranger into their home, who starts to take control...

Release Date:1999-10-26

Character:Publisher 2

Vote Count:2

Simpatico

As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. Jump ahead twenty years, Carter and Rosie are married, successful racers in Kentucky about to sell their prize stallion, Simpatico. Vinnie is a drunk in Pomona. Vinnie decides to make a play for Rosie, lures Carter to California, steals his wallet and heads for Kentucky with the original blackmail material. Carter begs Vinnie's friend, a grocery clerk named Cecilia, to follow Vinnie and get the stuff back that he has in a box. Will she succeed?

Release Date:1999-09-15

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:33

Wuthering Heights

Gipsy boy Heathcliffe is adopted by a god-fearing landowner in northern England and grows up as the soul-mate of the daughter, Cathy Earnshaw. When father dies, stern son Hindley returns and bans Heathcliffe to the stables; when they spy upon their upper class neighbors, Edgar Linton sends the dogs upon them and chases Heath but starts an affair -love comes only from him- with her. When Hindley's socialite wife Frances dies in childbirth, he is completely embittered, becomes a drunk unable to care for his son Hareton and has to sell Wuthering Hights- to Heathcliffe. After a misunderstanding Cathy marries Linton, Heath retorts by a loveless match with his sister. Even Cathy's death doesn't stop the cycle of spite, grief and harm so it poisons the next generation's lives as well while she keeps haunting Heathcliffe

Release Date:1998-09-11

Department:Writing

Job:Script Editor

Vote Count:28