Born in Liverpool in September, 1949, James Stanley "Jimmy" McGovern is an English screenwriter and producer. He created the television series Cracker, a popular and critical success in the UK, for which he received two Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America.
Drama based on the real life events of April 1989, when ninety-six Liverpool supporters were crushed to death during an F.A. Cup Semi-Final match against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium. This movie follows three Liverpudlian families before the match, during the tragedy and at the ensuing court battles which tried to decide who was to blame and what went wrong.
Release Date1996-09-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Football Dad
Vote Count19
The compelling tale of how a group of sacked dockers got together with scriptwriter Jimmy McGovern and novelist Irvine Welsh to turn their unique story into a film. In September 1995, five men were sacked for walking off the job when their overtime agreement was ditched. Dockers: Writing The Wrongs tells how the dockers spent a year producing the script based on their own experiences of the dramatic two and a half year dispute.
Release Date1999-07-11
Charactersd Himself
Sleaford Mods - Invisible Britain shows the most exciting and uncompromising British band in years sticking two fingers up to the zeitgeist and articulating the rage and desperation of those without a voice in austerity Britain. The film follows Sleaford Mods on a tour of the UK in the run up to the 2015 General Election, visiting the neglected, broken down and boarded up parts of the country that many would prefer to ignore. Part band doc, part look at the state of the nation, the documentary features individuals and communities attempting to find hope among the ruins, against a blistering soundtrack by Sleaford Mods.
Release Date2015-10-03
Charactersd Himself
Vote Count1
Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash discuss the creation of The Royle Family, with a look behind the scenes at the production of the show and interviews with the cast.
Release Date2010-11-10
Charactersd Self
Vote Count4
The ground-breaking soap set in a housing estate on the outskirts of Liverpool.
Release Date1982-11-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count19
The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.
Release Date1993-09-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count16
Vote Count115
Banished is a British period drama television serial created by Jimmy McGovern. The seven-part serial first aired on BBC Two from 5 March to 16 April 2015. It received mixed reviews, with most of the criticism for its perceived inaccuracies to the depicted events. Though set in the stark historical reality of the founding of the penal colony in Australia in 1788 after the arrival of the First Fleet, it is not the story of Australia and how it came to be. Rather, it is a tale of love, faith, justice and morality played out on an epic scale in a confined community where the stakes are literally life and death.
Release Date2015-03-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count7
Vote Count26
Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an all-star cast.
Release Date2021-06-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count239
Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.
Release Date2009-05-18
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count65
Vote Count9
How certain people end up being accused of a crime.
Release Date2010-11-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count10
Vote Count53
Two young women are raped on their way home. The story follows the lives of both women and the different ways they deal with the crime.
Release Date2015-04-09
DepartmentWriting
JobCreative Producer
Vote Count3
Anthology drama following the lives and passions of neighbors on a northern English street.
Release Date2006-04-13
DepartmentCrew
JobCreator
Episode Count18
Vote Count12
Crime drama based on the UK TV series about Gerry "Fitz" Fitzgerald, a brilliant but troubled criminal psychologist working alongside the Los Angeles police department.
Release Date1997-09-18
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count10
The deeply held religious convictions of an idealistic young priest are challenged when he must face extraordinary events within his own congregation.
Release Date1995-03-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count143
Mini series depicting the turbulent and bloody reigns of Scottish monarchs Mary, Queen of Scots and her son King James VI of Scotland who became King James I of England and foiled the Gunpowder Plot.
Release Date2004-03-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count27
When 17-year-old Johnjo gives his cousin and his friends a lift, he finds himself implicated in a stabbing.
Release Date2014-07-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count26
Nick, is a young Scottish soccer player living in the big city. He meets Karen, and the two fall in love and move in together. Soon after, Nick exhibits signs of serious illness. As his body slowly succumbs to multiple sclerosis, he experiences a wide sweep of jagged emotions, and in the process gives himself and those who love him the strength to carry on.
Release Date1995-09-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count17
A series of plays specially written for television.
Release Date1988-01-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
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
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count9
Six stories about six people facing accusations in court.
Release Date2015-01-14
DepartmentCrew
JobCreator
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
In July 2005, black teenager Anthony Walker was murdered by two white men in an unprovoked racist attack in a Liverpool park. He was just 18 years old. This film tells the story of how this talented young man's life might have turned out.
Release Date2020-07-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count6
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
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count11
Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.
Release Date1990-09-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.
Release Date1999-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count12
A young teacher begins work at a tough Liverpool comprehensive, where he has to deal with racism, homophobia and his students' poor backgrounds.
Release Date1995-02-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count3
Sunday tells the story of an infamous day in Derry, North of Ireland and how the events of that day were subsequently covered up by the British Government of the time. On Sunday 30th January 1972 a peaceful civil rights march against internment (imprisonment without trial), organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) ended with 13 marchers shot dead and 15 wounded. It became known throughout the world as Bloody Sunday. Told primarily from the perspective of the Derry community, juxtaposed with the British Army/state's preparations and reaction to the day, Sunday communicates the forensic and emotional truth of what happened
Release Date2002-01-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count8
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
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count10
A play about the gunpowder plot written from a new angle by Jimmy McGovern.
Release Date1990-11-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A British businessman operating in Hong Kong has feelings of inferiority and turns to murder when he faces bankruptcy.
Release Date1996-10-28
DepartmentCrew
JobCreator
Vote Count1
The Mitchell family deal with the devastating aftermath of an act of sexual abuse committed by a member of their own family who, after two years, is about to leave prison.
Release Date2025-07-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count7
Jimmy McGovern's depiction of the mid 90s Liverpool dockers strike. Featuring script contributions from Irvine Welsh and the real dockers themselves
Release Date1999-07-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count9
A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his first Holy Communion, gets a regular dose of fire and brimstone at church. Teresa, about 13, has a job as a maid to the Jewish family that owns the closed shipyard. The lady of that house is having an affair, and Teresa becomes an accomplice. Liam stutters terribly, especially when troubled. Dad comes under the sway of the Fascists, who blame cheap Irish labor and Jewish owners. A Molotov cocktail brings things to a head.
Release Date2001-01-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count38
Black comedy play about two pensioners struggling to manage on an old-age pension and living in a high-rise block of flats.
Release Date1991-08-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
