Danny Brocklehurst

The Stranger, became a huge international Netflix hit in January 2020, it starred Richard Armitage, Stephen Rea and Jennifer Saunders.

Come Home, a 3-part BBC drama was shown to critical acclaim in April 2018. It starred Christopher Eccleston and Paula Malcomson.

In 2017 Netflix made Safe starring Michael C. Hall. It is written by Danny and Harlan Coben.

The Driver, starring David Morrissey was announced in January 2014, a three-part drama about a taxi driver who takes a job driving for a criminal. Shown on for BBC One it co-starred Ian Hart, Claudie Blakely, and Colm Meaney. It was co-created by Jim Poyser and made by Red Productions and Highfield Pictures. In January 2015, US network Showtime announced they were developing a remake of the drama.

HBO announced a project called A Teacher, in February 2014 which will be co-written by Brocklehurst and Hannah Fidell, and executive produced by Mark Duplass. It is a drama about a teacher/student relationship, based on the film of the same name. The show didn't get made by HBO but has now been picked up by FX.

His new play Casual Ties has been commissioned for production in 2014. It is a dissection of modern relationships.

In August 2013, Charlotte Moore, the BBC1 controller announced a new drama, Ordinary Lies, written by Brocklehurst.

In 2013 Danny wrote the track "Ring" with dance band Mint Royale, featuring the vocals of Willem Dafoe.

In 2011 he wrote a 3-part BBC 1 drama, Exile, "a tale of prodigal redemption" which becomes an investigative crime story. It starred John Simm and Jim Broadbent. It was critically acclaimed. It received an average of 5.5 million viewers and an Audience Appreciation score of 90%.

In 2011 it was announced that Danny would write a new HBO drama, Dirty, with Andrea Arnold attached to direct. This project is now being developed with Sharon Horgan and Amazon.

In 2011 he has been nominated for two Writers Guild Awards for Exile and Accused.

He has cited Tony Marchant, Jimmy McGovern and Alan Bleasdale as his writing inspirations. In a Creative Times feature in 2010, he wrote that Our Friends in the North was his favourite drama of all time.

In 2007, Brocklehurst wrote a film about the Fathers4Justice campaign for producers Harbour Pictures. Whilst, his Company Pictures produced four-part ITV drama, Talk To Me, starring Max Beesley, Laura Fraser, Adrian Bower, Kate Ashfield and Emma Pierson.

He was featured in the writers' section of the Broadcast magazine Hot 100 2007.

His self-created series, Sorted, the BBC's high-profile postal drama, starring Hugo Speer, achieved 5 million viewers in the summer of 2006 and was the only drama that year to grow week on week in the ratings. Despite this; and the largely good critical response; the then controller Jane Tranter did not recommission the show.

Danny has written a play about Thatcher's Mutually Assured Destruction policy in the 1980s, The End of The World, a thriller about a man who seems to have ceased to exist Nobody, an Australian set examination of greed, Loaded and a single drama about an eighty-year-old woman who admits to a series of brutal murders, Mary Shane.

Danny Brocklehurst (born June 1971 in Hyde, Cheshire) is a BAFTA and International Emmy winning English screenwriter. Brocklehurst worked as a journalist for several years (as a freelancer for The Guardian, City Life and Manchester Evening News and senior feature writer for The Big Issue) before becoming a full-time screenwriter.