Biography

Lewis is currently directing all 7 parts of THE LONG SHADOW for New Pictures and ITV having recently finished directing SHERWOOD for House Productions/BBC1.

Prior to this, he directed Jimmy McGovern’s TIME for BBC Studios starring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham. The 3-parter was nominated for six awards at this years TV BAFTAs winning Best Mini-Series and Best Leading Actor for Sean Bean. 

In 2020 he directed and executive produced DES for New Pictures and ITV, having created the three-part drama with writer Luke Neal. The series won the International Emmy Award for Best Performance By An Actor in 2021, and was also nominated for Best TV Movie/Mini-Series. The first episode had consolidated viewing figures of 11.4 million making it ITV’s biggest new series since the launch of series CLEANING UP in January 2019, a show which he developed with writer Mark Marlow, directing the first four episodes for Sister Pictures.

It was on graduating from the National Film and Television School in March 2013, that Lewis embarked on directing his first TV project, directing with two episodes of the final series of BAFTA-winning C4 show, MISFITS. He followed this up by directing the first four episodes of Russell T Davies’s new E4 show, BANANA, and was named a Broadcast Magazine Hotshot 2014 for his work on both shows.

Other previous credits include BROADCHURCH and HUMANS, which became Channel 4’s most successful original drama in over 20 years when it aired in 2015. After directing two episodes on series one, he was asked back a year later to direct the lead block of the second series for Kudos and AMC.

Lewis has a host of projects in development including THE FICTIONAL MAN, an adaptation of Al Ewing’s book, with The Forge, as well as feature film projects, BULLY, HIM and PLAYING DEAD.

He is also represented in the US by Matt Greenberg and Jon Cassir at CAA

Credits

Long Shadow, The 7 episodes View
Series   Role Year
Series 1, Episode 1   Director 2023
Series 1, Episode 2   Director 2023
Series 1, Episode 3   Director 2023
Series 1, Episode 4   Director 2023
Series 1, Episode 5   Director 2023
Series 1, Episode 6   Director 2023
Series 1, Episode 7   Director 2023
Sherwood 3 episodes View
Series   Role Year
Series 1, Episode 1   Director 2022
Series 1, Episode 2   Director 2022
Series 1, Episode 3   Director 2022
Time 3 episodes View
Series   Role Year
Series 1, Episode 1   Director 2021
Series 1, Episode 2   Director 2021
Series 1, Episode 3   Director 2021
Des 3 episodes View
Series   Role Year
Series 1, Episode 1   Director 2020
Series 1, Episode 2   Director 2020
Series 1, Episode 3   Director 2020
Dark Money 4 episodes View
Series   Role Year
Series 1, Episode 1   Director 2019
Series 1, Episode 2   Director 2019
Series 1, Episode 3   Director 2019
Series 1, Episode 4   Director 2019
Cleaning Up 4 episodes View
Series   Role Year
Series 1, Episode 1   Director 2019
Series 1, Episode 2   Director 2019
Series 1, Episode 3   Director 2019
Series 1, Episode 4   Director 2019
Prey 3 episodes View
Series   Role Year
Series 2, Episode 1   Director 2015
Series 2, Episode 2   Director 2015
Series 2, Episode 3   Director 2015
Broadchurch 1 episode View
Series   Role Year
Series 3, Episode 6   Director 2015
Banana 4 episodes View
Series   Role Year
Series 1, Episode 1   Director 2014
Series 1, Episode 2   Director 2014
Series 1, Episode 3   Director 2014
Series 1, Episode 4   Director 2014
Misfits 2 episodes View
Series   Role Year
Series 5, Episode 6   Director 2013
Series 5, Episode 7   Director 2013
Humans 4 episodes View
Series   Role Year
Series 1, Episode 5   Director 2015
Series 1, Episode 6   Director 2004
Series 2, Episode 1   Director 2016
Series 2, Episode 2   Director 2016

Awards

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