Luke Watson

Luke is an award-winning film and television writer / director. He is co-creating and co-writing The Drowning, a four-part identity thriller for Channel 5 due out in autumn 2020. He is also writing supernatural thriller series Shadows for Red Riding Productions. Luke has directed many prime-time TV drama series, including Britannia, Ripper Street, Criminal Justice, Spotless, and The Village, as well as one-off TV films for the BBC: Random Quest (2006), an adaptation of a John Wyndham science fiction story, and A View From A Hill (2005), an adaptation of an M.R. James ghost story. Luke won a BAFTA for the first series of Criminal Justice (2008), in the Best Drama Serial category, as well as the Prix Italia for Best Drama 2009, Best Drama Serial at the Broadcast Awards 2009, and TV Crime Drama of the Year at the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards 2009. Luke studied at The Royal College of Art and is represented in the U.K. by 42 M&P.