Jesse Armstrong

Jesse David Armstrong (born December 13, 1970) is a British author, screenwriter, and producer. He is a co-creator of the Channel 4 comedy series Peep Show (2003–2015) and Fresh Meat (2011–2016), and the creator of the HBO satirical comedy-drama series Succession (2018–present). Armstrong has received many nominations and awards, including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing the film In the Loop (2009), and three wins for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for writing the season finales of the first, second and third seasons of Succession.

Works

Downhill

Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives and how they feel about each other.

Release Date: 2020-02-06

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 277

The Day Shall Come

An impoverished leader of a small religious commune in Miami is offered cash to save his family from eviction. He has no idea his sponsor works for an FBI agent, who plans to turn him into a criminal by fueling his madcap revolutionary dreams.

Release Date: 2019-10-11

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 114

What We Do in the Shadows

A documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of a group of vampires in Staten Island who have “lived” together for hundreds and hundreds of years.

Release Date: 2019-03-27

Department: Production

Job: Executive Consultant

Episode Count: 31

Vote Count: 788

Sally4Ever

Sally4Ever follows the life of Sally, a soon-to-be promoted marketer who, for 10 years, has lived a comfortable and dull suburban life with David. But on the night he asks her to marry him, Sally has a crisis and embarks on a wild affair with Emma, a seductive, charismatic, boho actress, singer, musician, poet and author. Before Sally knows it, Emma has moved in, rearranged the furniture and her life. Is this really what Sally wants, or has she made a mistake?

Release Date: 2018-10-25

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 24

Succession

Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.

Release Date: 2018-06-03

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 39

Vote Count: 1269

Incident on the Northern Line

An unexpected collision on the public transport system sends two commuters on a strange journey.

Release Date: 2015-06-18

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Babylon

London's police force is in need of a public image revamp. And Chief Constable Richard Miller has found just the woman to do it...American visionary from the world of new media Liz Garvey, sets out to revolutionise the force's PR department just as an outbreak of violence erupts.

Release Date: 2014-11-13

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 33

Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe

Charlie Brooker and guests cast their collective eyes over all that the telly, cinema, news and computer games have to offer, in order to wring a little laughter from a hilariously troubled world.

Release Date: 2013-01-31

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 21

Fresh Meat

A group of six students about to embark on the most exciting period of their lives so far: university!

Release Date: 2011-09-21

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 110

Four Lions

Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce.

Release Date: 2010-05-07

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1153

In the Loop

The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East, but—behind the scenes—government officials and advisers are either promoting the war or are trying to prevent it.

Release Date: 2009-01-22

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 688

Spinners and Losers

Peter Mannion's speech on immigration, leaking the PM's policy, did not have the effect Tucker desired and now the PM is resigning, leaving the way clear for the Nutters and their leader Tom. Ollie has been promised a job by young Nutter Ben Swain, Tucker's assistant has encouraged Hugh's predecessor Cliff to stand as a stalking horse and Glenn is keen to keep Hugh in the frame whilst his boss is in Australia. Fortunately Tom has a dark secret which is just what Tucker is looking for but will it be enough?

Release Date: 2007-07-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

Jonty

A coddled kid takes off for NYC where he joins forces with an old friend to produce a terrible Broadway play.

Department: Production

Job: Producer

No Kaddish in Carmarthen

When you're 15 it's hard to know exactly who you are, but you're probably not Woody Allen.

Release Date: 2014-02-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Bad Sugar

A dysfunctional, wealthy mining dynasty, with an ailing patriarch and some greedy siblings. A peculiarly British take on telenovela style melodramas, played for laughs.

Release Date: 2012-08-26

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Magicians

A pair of rivaling stage magicians are forced to confront their falling out over a guillotine mishap when they compete in a magic competition.

Release Date: 2007-05-18

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 71

The Rise of the Nutters

With Hugh in Australia and Glenn in Wales, Ollie is left in charge, feeding policies to junior minister Ben Swain. He is one of the 'Nutters', the group keen to take power when the P.M. resigns and keen to make a name for himself - which he does in the wrong sense when Jeremy Paxman skewers him on 'Newsnight'. This is music to Tucker's ears as it is in his interest for the P.M. to remain in power for as long as he can. Ollie's new girlfriend Emma is working for Shadow Minister Peter Mannion and hopes to impress by stealing one of Ollie's idea for use on their immigration policy though things do not go fully to plan.

Release Date: 2007-01-02

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 4

Rory Bremner: From Blair to Here

Rory Bremner looks back on the first year of Tony Blair's premiership through a series of sketches.

Department: Production

Job: Researcher

Vote Count: 1

The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall

The rebirth of Amnesty International's legendary SECRET POLICEMAN'S BALL at the Royal Albert Hall on 14th October - after a 15 year hiatus - was a resounding success. Bigger, Better and Ballsier than ever before, 'The Ball In The Hall' is a non-stop, rapid-fire, relentless smorgasbord of comedy and music. 6,000 people turned up to create a fantastic atmosphere as some of the best contemporary comic and music talent from both sides of the Atlantic delivered one show-stopping performance after another. Featuring never-before-seen collaborations, brand new sketches, explosive stand-up, off-stage performances, surprise ingredients and an anthem for the world, there has been nothing like it in the comedy world for years.

Release Date: 2006-10-31

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 3

Untitled Jesse Armstrong Film

Four friends meet up during the turmoil of an ongoing international financial crisis.

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Veep

A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her about.

Release Date: 2012-04-22

Department: Writing

Job: Teleplay

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 452

Black Mirror

Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.

Release Date: 2011-12-04

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 5230

The Old Guys

The Old Guys is a British comedy television series that revolves around two aging housemates: Tom Finnan and Roy Bowden. The pair live across the street from Sally, whom they both find attractive. Tom moved in with Roy after Roy's wife Penny deserted him. Baby boomer Tom has little in life but his daughter Amber, who is dating Steve. Roy is a suburban pensioner who believes that he is one of the country's leading intellectuals.

Release Date: 2009-01-31

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 4

The Thick of It

Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.

Release Date: 2005-05-19

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 15

Vote Count: 174

Peep Show

Peep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan, who has steady employment for most of the series, and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne, an unemployed would-be musician.

Release Date: 2003-09-19

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 48

Vote Count: 379

My Parents Are Aliens

Young orphans, Mel, Josh and Lucy, can't believe their luck when they are fostered together under one roof. But just when it looks like they have the chance of a relatively normal life, they discover their new parents are aliens from planet Valux!

Release Date: 1999-11-08

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 14

Days Like These

Days Like These is a British TV series remake of the popular American sitcom That '70s Show. Directed by Bob Spiers, it was broadcast Fridays at 8.30pm on ITV in 1999 and used many of the same names, or slight alterations. It was set in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. Only 10 of the 13 produced episodes were aired. Five began broadcasts of That '70s Show after the failure of Days Like These and it was one of the first comedy shows imported onto the channel.

Release Date: 1999-02-12

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 13

First Day on Earth

British novelist Henri is stuck. Work has dried up, her relationship is going nowhere. So when she's offered a job on a film in Ghana, West Africa - her parents' homeland, where her estranged father lives - she can't resist the chance to reconnect with him and the country of her heritage. But when she arrives neither the job nor her father turn out the way she expected, and soon Henri has to deal with danger and hypocrisy, form new friendships, lose her illusions, and create a new sense of identity - one that might leave her stronger, but could also break her.

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer