Christopher Antony Chibnall (born 21 March 1970) is an English television writer and producer, best known as the creator and writer of the award-winning ITV mystery-crime drama Broadchurch and as a showrunner of the long-running BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who. Chibnall wrote five episodes of the series under previous showrunners Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat, and was also the head writer for the first two series of the spinoff Torchwood.
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the BBC Singers, conducted by Alastair King, celebrate the glorious musical sounds of the iconic and much-loved TV series.
Release Date: 2023-11-01
Character: Himself
Vote Count: 4
In a South Yorkshire city, Ryan Sinclair, Yasmin Khan and Graham O'Brien are about to have their lives changed forever, as a mysterious woman, unable to remember her own name, falls from the night sky. Can they believe a word she says? And can she help solve the strange events taking place across the city?
Release Date: 2018-10-08
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 15
Release Date: 2016-04-23
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
When a young boy is found dead on an idyllic beach, a major police investigation gets underway in the small California seaside town where the tragedy occurred. Soon deemed a homicide, the case sparks a media frenzy, which throws the boy's family into further turmoil and upends the lives of all of the town's residents.
Release Date: 2014-10-02
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 73
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 Date: 2013-12-18
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 58
The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.
Release Date: 2013-03-04
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 24
Vote Count: 858
Rory says goodbye to his father.
Release Date: 2012-10-12
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
A series of five minisodes show Amy and Rory's life at home, while The Doctor has adventures of his own.
Release Date: 2012-08-27
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2
Pond Life follows the life of the Doctor, and Amy Pond and Rory Williams.
Release Date: 2012-08-27
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
Camelot is a historical-fantasy-drama television series based on the Arthurian legend, was produced by Graham King, Morgan O'Sullivan and Michael Hirst.
Release Date: 2011-02-25
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 166
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 Date: 2011-01-02
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 156
Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the criminal justice system.
Release Date: 2009-02-23
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 37
A retrospective of Colin Baker's turbulent three-years as the Sixth Doctor in Doctor Who (1963), covering his casting, the 1985 hiatus, and his sacking on the orders of BBC One controller Michael Grade.
Release Date: 2008-09-30
Character: (archive footage)
The exploits a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.
Release Date: 2006-10-22
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 504
A detective chief inspector from 2006 is investigating a serial killer when he is knocked over by a speeding car. Waking up, he finds himself mysteriously transported back in time to 1973. Initially struggling to come to terms with his situation, he has to come to terms with the old-fashioned technology and attitude of the day, while figuring out how he came to be trapped in the past.
Release Date: 2006-01-09
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 278
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
Release Date: 2005-03-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 25
Vote Count: 3069
Born and Bred is a light-hearted British drama series that aired on BBC One from 2002 to 2005. Created by Chris Chibnall and Nigel McCrery, Born and Bred's cast was led by James Bolam and Michael French, who play a father and son who run a cottage hospital in Ormston, a fictional Lancashire village in the 1950s. Bolam and French's characters are later replaced by characters played by Richard Wilson and Oliver Milburn.
Release Date: 2002-04-21
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 2
A monologue drama from Chris Chibnall starring James Bolam as a tube driver on his last day before retirement
Release Date: 2000-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
England. 1925. At a lavish country house party, a practical joke appears to have gone horribly, murderously wrong. It will be up to the unlikeliest of sleuths - the fizzingly inquisitive Lady Eileen ‘Bundle’ Brent - to unravel a chilling plot that will change her life, cracking wide open the country house mystery.
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 1