Nick Hurran

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nick Hurran (born 1959) is a British film and television director. Hurran is married to the television producer Michele Buck, with whom he has two children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nick Hurran, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Doctor Who

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 Date2005-03-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count3254

Sherlock

A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.

Release Date2010-07-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count6119

Travelers

Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These "travelers" assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future.

Release Date2016-10-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count819

Altered Carbon

After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to life in a new body with one chance to win his freedom: by solving a mind-bending murder.

Release Date2018-02-02

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JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count2159

Minority Report

Ten years after the demise of Precrime, crime-solving is different and justice leans more on sophisticated and trusted technology than on the instincts of the precogs—individuals who able to see the future. In Washington, D.C., a man haunted by the future and a cop haunted by her past race to stop the worst crimes of the year 2065 before they happen.

Release Date2015-09-21

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JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count192

Devils

After being implicated in a deadly scandal, a trader at a leading London bank fights to clear his name, but instead uncovers an intercontinental conspiracy masterminded by powerful forces operating in the shadows.

Release Date2020-04-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count9

Vote Count177

Childhood's End

The peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious “Overlords,” whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.

Release Date2015-12-14

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JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count416

Virtual Sexuality

A frustrated teenage girl creates her perfect man in a virtual reality machine and in a freak accident, gives him life.

Release Date1999-07-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count55

Boon

Boon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey. It was created by Jim Hill and Bill Stair and filmed by Central Television for ITV. It revolved around the life of a modern-day Lone Ranger and ex-firefighter, Ken Boon.

Release Date1986-01-14

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JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count13

It's a Boy Girl Thing

A visit to a natural history museum proves catastrophic for two high school rivals, an overachiever and a jock, when an ancient Aztec statue casts a spell that causes them to switch bodies and see exactly what it's like to walk in the other's shoes.

Release Date2006-07-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1087

Undertaking Betty

A politician's wife and the mortician who has secretly loved her for years plan to fake her death so they can run away together.

Release Date2002-12-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count109

The Last Detective

"Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants, and no one notices when he eventually succeeds. But his old-fashioned decency and dogged determination have won him legions of loyal fans.

Release Date2003-02-07

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JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count10

Remember Me?

A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected arrival of one of the wife's old flames.

Release Date1997-01-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Girls' Night

Two British best friends and in-laws Dawn and Jackie work together at a factory. When Dawn is diagnosed with a brain tumor Jackie shares $100,000 she's got from her secret lover with Dawn to fulfil her dream - a visit to Las Vegas. They buy two tickets and fly there...

Release Date1998-06-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count9

Ellis

DCI Ellis, a tenacious cop, is parachuted into failing investigations alongside her partner DS Harper. Each case will bring her to a different police station where she'll have to not only immerse herself in the case, but also win over the local police.

Release Date2024-10-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count32

The Prisoner

The Prisoner is a six-part 2009 television miniseries written by Bill Gallagher, based on the 1967 series of the same name. Produced by ITV Studios, the serial premiering on the US channel AMC in November 2009 before airing on ITV six months later. After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.

Release Date2009-11-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count90

Frank Stubbs Promotes

Frank Stubbs (Timothy Spall) is a down-at-heel ticket tout with grand ideas. He has an ambition to become a 'high class' promoter of famous and talented performers. In reality, his ambitions tend to outstrip his capabilities.

Release Date1993-07-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

Bonekickers

Bonekickers was a BBC drama about a team of archaeologists, set at the fictional Wessex University. It made its début on 8 July 2008 and ran for one series. It was written by Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes creators Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah. It was produced by Michele Buck and Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen Ltd and co-produced with Monastic Productions. Archaeologist and Bristol University academic Mark Horton acted as the series' archaeological consultant. Adrian Lester has described the programme as "CSI meets Indiana Jones [...] There's an element of the crime procedural show, there's science, conspiracy theories – and there's a big underlying mystery that goes through the whole six-episode series." Much of the series was filmed in the City of Bath, Somerset, with locations including the University of Bath campus. Additional locations included Brean Down Fort and Kings Weston House, Chavenage House for episodes 5 & 6 and Sheldon Manor. On 21 November 2008 Broadcast magazine revealed the show would not be returning for a second series.

Release Date2008-07-08

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JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count11

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor's own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.

Release Date2013-11-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count764

Little Black Book

Determined to learn about her boyfriend's past relationships, Stacy -- who works for a talk show -- becomes a bona fide snoop. With her colleague, Barb, Stacy gets the names of Derek's ex-lovers and interviews them, supposedly for an upcoming show. But what she learns only adds to her confusion, and her plans begin to unravel when she befriends one of the women.

Release Date2004-08-06

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JobDirector

Vote Count357

Me and Mrs Jones

The life of Mrs Gemma Jones becomes increasingly complicated as she balances love, affection, sex and motherhood between an ex-husband, an adult son, two young daughters, and two male admirers with a 20-year age gap between them.

Release Date2012-10-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count8

Take a Girl Like You

Take a Girl Like You is a 2000 British comedy-drama series based on Kingsley Amis's 1960 novel of the same name. The three-part series, which aired in November and December 2000, stars Sienna Guillory and Rupert Graves. In 1959, 20-year-old Jenny Bunn moves from her North England family home to a London suburb to teach primary school. Jenny is a traditional Northern working-class girl whose striking good looks are in sharp contrast to her prosaic upbringing, and to her strong belief that a girl should preserve her virginity until her wedding night. Due of her attractiveness, Jenny's views raise conflicts.

Release Date2000-11-26

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JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count1

The Perfect Match

Guy proposes to his girlfriend by putting a notice on the half time scoreboard at the FA cup final. The entire crowd at wembley stadium cheer them on as he holds up the ring. The TV cameras pick it up. it becomes wedding of the year, but she doesn't want to marry him.

Release Date1995-09-06

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JobDirector

A Class Apart

A working class single mother appeals to send her son to the best state school in her area. When the headmaster of a local private school hears of her campaign, he is intrigued, and offers her son a place at his school, betting that he can turn the boy's life around.

Release Date2007-03-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Walk Away and I Stumble

Andy Spader has been happily married for 13 years, with two teenage children, when he meets a younger woman, Claire Holmes, after going to investigate a break-in at her travel agency shop. Having told his wife that he is leaving her, he learns that Claire has just discovered that she has an inoperable brain tumour and has only a few months to live.

Release Date2007-05-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Sherlock: His Last Vow

Release Date2014-01-12

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Vote Count1

A Class Apart

An outspoken single mum is determined her son will go to the school of her choice, and he ends up at a private school. Only then does she discover the headmaster offered a place merely to win a bet.

Release Date2007-03-23

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JobDirector

Happy Birthday Shakespeare

Family man Will Green, a tourist bus driver is convinced that life would be better if he and his family moved to the birthplace of his favourite man Shakespeare’s birthplace Stratford-Upon-Avon where he could open his own restaurant. Will also harboured dreams about beginning a romance with tour guide Alice.

Release Date2000-04-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Last Detective

A disrespected but decent detective unravels a cold case about a missing seventeen year old girl while trying to deal with the breakup of his marriage.

Release Date2003-02-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector