Luke Watson(I)
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Luke is an award-winning film and television writer / director. He is currently co-writing new 'supernatural scandi-noir' series Strangers, which he is due to direct in 2024. Most recently he was Lead Director and Executive Producer on season one of The Swarm, a prestige international science fiction series which premiered at the Berlinale and achieved ZDFs best ever start for a streaming series. In 2021 he co-created and co-wrote The Drowning, a four-part identity thriller for Channel 5 which became its highest-rated and most watched drama in 25 years.
Luke has directed many prime-time UK TV drama series - including Britannia, Ripper Street, Criminal Justice, Spotless, Shameless 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 - working with some of the finest talent in the UK both in front of and behind the camera.
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 UK by Casarotto Ramsey and in the US by Gersh.
Luke has directed many prime-time UK TV drama series - including Britannia, Ripper Street, Criminal Justice, Spotless, Shameless 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 - working with some of the finest talent in the UK both in front of and behind the camera.
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 UK by Casarotto Ramsey and in the US by Gersh.
