Nick Hornby (born 17 April 1957) is an English novelist, essayist and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels High Fidelity, About a Boy, and for the football memoir Fever Pitch. His work frequently touches upon music, sport, and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists.
Samuca is only 17 years old and discovers that his girlfriend Alicia is pregnant. The news comes to light at a not very favorable moment in Samuca's life, just when he thought everything was going very well. For having committed the same "slam" as his mother Melina, having a son at the same age as she had him, Samuca feels pressured. Themes such as teenage pregnancy and questions about life gain visibility and are unfolded throughout the plot.
Release Date: 2023-06-22
Department: Writing
Job: Book
Vote Count: 1
A young woman from Blackpool finds her voice in the male dominated world of the 1960s comedy, and in doing so takes London by storm.
Release Date: 2023-02-09
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 40
Rob Brooks, a female record store owner in the rapidly gentrified neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn revisit past relationships through music and pop culture, while trying to get over her one true love.
Release Date: 2020-02-14
Department: Writing
Job: Book
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 219
Personalities in YouTube's literary space join renowned authors like Margaret Atwood and Malcolm Gladwell in a conversation about books.
Release Date: 2019-12-19
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Tom and Louise meet in a pub immediately before their weekly marital therapy session. With each successive episode we piece together how their lives were, what drew them together and what has started to pull them apart.
Release Date: 2019-05-06
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 20
Vote Count: 72
Annie is stuck in a long-term relationship with Duncan – an obsessive fan of obscure rocker Tucker Crowe. When the acoustic demo of Tucker's hit record from 25 years ago surfaces, its discovery leads to a life-changing encounter with the elusive rocker himself.
Release Date: 2018-08-16
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 499
89 tells the incredible story of one of football’s greatest triumphs: when against all odds Arsenal snatched the Championship title from Liverpool at Anfield in the last minute of the last game of the 1988/89 season. It’s a universal tale of a band of brothers who, led by a charismatic and deeply respected manager, came together to defy the odds and create history.
Release Date: 2017-11-20
Character: Himself
Vote Count: 36
Samuele is 16 and has a passion for skateboarding. He has big dreams: going to university, move to California, and travel, but things change when he meets Alice, who could be the girl of his life.
Release Date: 2016-11-20
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 233
Twenty years old and from Leicester, Nina moves to North London in 1982, to care for the two young boys of a working single mother, George, the editor of a London literary review.
Release Date: 2016-05-20
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 15
Carrying nearly five million passengers per day, the London Tube is one of the world's oldest and busiest metro systems in the world. Today the Tube is undergoing a complete overhaul that is long overdue. Take a behind the scenes look into the daily lives of drivers, emergency personnel, operations managers, and many others among the near twenty thousand employees of this massive rail system, as they navigate the evolution of the London Tube.
Release Date: 2016-03-21
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 3
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Release Date: 2015-10-20
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 3134
Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.
Release Date: 2015-08-02
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 17
A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Release Date: 2014-12-05
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 2534
Four lost souls—a disgraced TV presenter, a foul-mouthed teen, an isolated single mother, and a solipsistic muso—decide to end their lives on the same night, New Year's Eve. When this disillusioned quartet of strangers meet unintentionally at the same suicide hotspot, a London high-rise with the well-earned nickname Topper's Tower, they mutually agree to call off their plans for six weeks, forming an unconventional, dysfunctional family. They become media sensations as the Topper House Four and search together for the reasons to keep on living.
Release Date: 2014-03-20
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 894
Will Freeman lives a charmed existence as the ultimate man-child. After writing a hit song, he was granted a life of free time, free love and freedom from financial woes. He's single, unemployed and loving it. So imagine his surprise when Fiona, a needy single mom and her oddly charming 11-year-old son, Marcus, move in next door and disrupt his perfect world. When Marcus begins dropping by his home unannounced, Will's not so sure about being a kid's new best friend, until, of course, Will discovers that women find single dads irresistible. That changes everything and a deal is struck: Marcus will pretend to be Will's son and, in return, Marcus is allowed to chill at Will's house. Before he realizes it, Will starts to enjoy the visits and even finds himself looking out for the kid. In fact, this newfound friendship may very well teach him a thing or two that he never imagined possible - about himself and caring for others.
Release Date: 2014-02-22
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 85
Marco, a shy teenager, learns that he has... what it takes to be a great porn star, but he doesn't know how to tell his parents. Hell breaks loose when a neighbor finds a porn video of him and leaves it in his parents' mailbox.
Release Date: 2012-03-23
Department: Writing
Job: Short Story
Vote Count: 134
Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile, Jenny gets a taste of adult life that she won't soon forget.
Release Date: 2009-10-29
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1334
The Alan Titchmarsh Show is a British daytime chat show presented by Alan Titchmarsh. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2007 and currently airs on weekday afternoons. The show's main focus is the "Best of British" theme with many of the shows' segments focusing on fashion, health, nature, cookery and animals.
Release Date: 2007-09-03
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 3
Long-time Wire fan Charlie Brooker takes a journey to the mean streets of Baltimore to meet the cast and crew of the series, and undertakes a mission to explain what makes The Wire the best cop show ever made.
Release Date: 2007-07-01
Character: Self
Vote Count: 2
When Ben Wrightman, a young teacher, begins dating pretty businesswoman Lindsey Meeks, the two don't seem to have a lot of the same interests, but they fall in love, regardless. Their romance goes well until baseball season begins, and Lindsey soon realizes that Ben is completely obsessed with the Boston Red Sox. Though she tries to understand Ben's passionate team loyalty, eventually it threatens to end their otherwise happy relationship.
Release Date: 2005-04-06
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 717
A weekly BBC Two magazine programme focusing on the best of the week's arts and culture news, covering books, art, film, architecture and more.
Release Date: 2004-11-11
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 6
Will Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility. But when he invents an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms, Will gets a hilarious lesson about life from a bright, but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you're never too old to grow up.
Release Date: 2002-04-26
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 2261
A short film on the subject of an Arsenal fan's protest and based on an original short story by Fever Pitch author Nick Hornby, starring John Sessions, Saskia Reeves, Gary Lineker and Leslie Grantham. Shown on BBC2's football themed 'Fan Night', hosted by Mark and Lard, on Saturday 9th May 1998
Release Date: 1998-05-09
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiographical novel, Fever Pitch. English teacher Paul Ashworth believes his long standing obsession with Arsenal serves him well. But then he meets Sarah. Their relationship develops in tandem with Arsenal's roller coaster fortunes in the football league, both leading to a nail biting climax.
Release Date: 1997-04-04
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Character: School Football Coach (uncredited)
Vote Count: 243
Peggy Cort is a young librarian who prefers the company of books to people. When James—a very, very, tall young man —visits her library, the two embark on a journey neither could have predicted.
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand why he is unlucky in love while recounting his "top five breakups of all time".
Release Date: 2000-03-17
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 2054
A series of one-act vignettes between a bartender and the customers she serves, all of whom are in various states of emotional disrepair.
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 1
Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards. Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott. For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman. The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.
Release Date: 1967-10-13
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 8