Nationality British Siblings Nick Lang Role Television writer | Name Chris Lang Period 1993–present | |
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Occupation Screenwriter, television producer Music group The Housemartins (1983 – 1988) Nominations Edgar Awards for Best Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay Movies and TV shows Kipper, Sirens, Outside Edge, All Along the Watchtower, Kipper: Tiger Tales Similar People Ted Key, Stan Culli, Hugh Whitaker, Dave Hemingway, Nick Lang Profiles | ||
Chris Lang on the national psyche portrayed in Dark Heart | London Live
Chris Lang (born 1961) is a British television writer, actor and producer.
Contents
- Chris Lang on the national psyche portrayed in Dark Heart London Live
- The Writer Cast Of Dark Heart Talk All About The New ITV Drama
- Screenwriter
- Actor
- Selected work
- Awards and nominations
- References
The Writer & Cast Of 'Dark Heart' Talk All About The New ITV Drama
Screenwriter
Lang has written for many British television series but is best known as the writer, creator and executive producer of the critically acclaimed Unforgotten. The first series starred Nicola Walker, Trevor Eve, Sir Tom Courtenay, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Bernard Hill.[8] and was first broadcast in Autumn 2015. Sir Tom Courtenay later won the 2016 BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor for his role, and was nominated for a Royal Television Society award for his performance, while Nicola Walker was nominated at the Broadcasting Press Guild awards for best actress. In November 2015, ITV announced it would be returning for a second series. Alongside Walker and Bhaskar, series two starred Mark Bonnar, Rosie Cavaliero, Lorraine Ashbourne, Adeel Akhtar, Wendy Craig, Bill Patterson, Douglas Hodge and Badria Timmimi. It aired in January 2017 to an audience of 7.29 million, with the Daily Telegraph describing the series as 'The detective drama of the decade'. In March 2017, ITV announced Unforgotten would return for a third series, to be broadcast in 2018.
Lang has written many other British television series including - Undeniable starring Peter Firth and Claire Goose, (April 2014); which was remade in France in February 2017, entitled Quand je serai grande, je te tuerai. Filmed on the Île de Ré it will broadcast in France in late 2017. A Mother's Son starring Hermione Norris, Paul McGann and Martin Clunes (September 2012) which was nominated for a Broadcast Award, and adapted as a single film for TF1 in France called Tu Es Mon Fils (April 2015) and starring Anne Marivin; Tu Es Mon fils later won best single film at the Polar de Cognac Film Festival. Lang's series Torn, starring Holly Aird and Nicola Walker, was nominated for an RTS award. and was also remade for French TV as Entre Deux Mères. It was shown at the Luchon Film and TV festival and scheduled for broadcast on TF1 on 27 March 2017.
Lang began his career as a television writer with The Bill, for which he wrote many episodes, and for which he won a Writer's Guild award. He went on to write episodes for shows including Casualty, Soldier Soldier, The Knock, Reach for the Moon, The Palace, POW, Primeval, Hustle and most recently The Tunnel for Sky Atlantic. In 2001, he wrote and created his first original drama series The Glass, which starred John Thaw and Sarah Lancashire. Since then some of his other original work has included Sirens, Unconditional Love, Amnesia (which was nominated for an Edgar Award), Lawless, and The Reckoning.
In 2007, he co-formed TXTV through which he now makes much of his original drama, and through which he co-created, wrote and executive produced ‘Innocent’, a four part thriller starring Lee Ingleby, Hermione Norris, Nigel Lindsay and Angel Coulby. It is scheduled to broadcast early 2018.
Actor
He trained at RADA, graduating in 1983, after winning the Royal Academy award for 'A Series of Outstanding Performances in the Vanbrugh Theatre'. As an actor he worked on such British television series as Shadow of the Noose, Drop the Dead Donkey, Outside Edge, A Dance to the Music of Time and All Along the Watchtower. In his youth, he formed a comedy revue called The Jockeys of Norfolk with Andy Taylor and Hugh Grant. but stopped acting in the mid nineties in order to fully concentrate on his writing career.