David Nicholls (Writer)
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Works
Shockers
An anthology series of horror stories by contemporary British screenwriters.
Release Date1999-10-19
Charactersd Publisher
Episode Count1
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 Date2003-09-28
Charactersd Production Asst
Vote Count27
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 Date1999-10-26
Charactersd Publisher 2
Vote Count3
Remembers…
What are the secrets of our favourite TV shows? Famous names from both sides of the camera reflect on making some of the most popular and influential programmes of all time.
Release Date2022-06-29
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
One Day
After spending graduation night together, Emma and Dexter go their separate ways — but their lives remain intertwined.
Release Date2024-02-08
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count14
Vote Count293
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 Date2018-05-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Vote Count315
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 Date2011-03-02
DepartmentWriting
JobBook
Vote Count4505
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The story of Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble connections.
Release Date2008-09-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count58
ShakespeaRe-Told
Four of Shakespeare's plays are dramatically relocated to the modern day.
Release Date2005-11-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count14
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 Date2015-04-23
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1102
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 Date2006-09-13
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count445
The 7.39
Partnered commuters Sally and Carl meet on a train and begin a secret affair, exploring themes of love, infidelity, and modern relationships against the backdrop of a mundane commute.
Release Date2014-01-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count63
Rescue Me
Rescue Me is a British romantic comedy television series produced by Tiger Aspect Productions and broadcast on BBC One from 3 March to 7 April 2002. It was created, and principally written, by David Nicholls, and stars Sally Phillips as Katie Nash, a woman recovering from a divorce while at the same time writing relationship features for women's magazine Eden. Filming took place from November to December 2001. Six episodes aired, averaging 3.4 million viewers and a 15% audience share in its Sunday night timeslot. The low ratings meant it was not recommissioned for a second series, leaving an unresolved cliffhanger. Nicholls had written four episodes of the unmade second series before discovering the series had been cancelled.
Release Date2002-03-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
Great Expectations
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Release Date2012-11-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count357
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 Date1999-09-15
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count39
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 Date2020-09-20
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count32
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
Release Date2007-10-05
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count67
Wuthering Heights
Gypsy boy Heathcliffe is adopted by God-fearing landowner Earnshaw in 19th-century northern England and grows up as the soulmate of the daughter, Cathy. However, their romance suffers various tragedies.
Release Date1998-09-11
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Editor
Vote Count33
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 Date2005-11-07
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Vote Count5
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 Date2014-10-24
DepartmentWriting
JobShort Story
Vote Count1
Babel
Literature talkshow with Jessika Gedin.
Release Date2014-03-16
Episode Count1
Vote Count1