Nick Leather

Nick Leather

Nick Leather is a BAFTA, RTS and Writers' Guild of Great Britain award-winning writer. His work includes the single drama 'Mother's Day' (BBC2/RTE), for which he won the RTS NW Award for Best Scriptwriter 2019 and was nominated for the Writers' Guild Award for Best Short Form TV Drama, and the single drama 'Murdered For Being Different' (BBC3), which won the BAFTA and RTS Awards for Best Single Drama 2018, and was nominated for a Rose D'Or, Broadcast and British Screenwriters' Award. Previous production credits include Jimmy McGovern's drama series "Broken' (BBC1) and 'The Worst Witch' (CBBC/Netflix), for which he was nominated for a Writers' Guild Award 2018. He created the children's drama series 'Rocket's Island', which ran for three seasons, won a Prix Jeunesse in 2016, and was BAFTA nominated for 'Best Children's Drama' in 2014 and 2016. In 2012 he won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Episode Of A Continuing Drama for his work on Channel Four's 'Hollyoaks', and in 2013 was BAFTA-nominated in the Best Children's Writer category for his episode of the CBBC show 'Stepping Up'.

  • Title: Nick Leather
  • Popularity: 0.3323
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1978-12-01
  • Place of Birth: Newton Le Willows
  • Homepage: https://www.jtmanagement.co.uk/clients/nick-leather/
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Nick Leather Movies

  • 2017
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    Murdered for Being Different
    Murdered for Being Different

    5.9 2017 HD

    Drama telling the true story of the murder of 20-year-old Sophie Lancaster in 2007, who was kicked to death in a park by a gang. Her boyfriend, Robert Maltby, was also severely beaten and put into a coma. The two of them were attacked because they were dressed as goths.

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  • 2018
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    Mother's Day
    Mother's Day

    7.6 2018 HD

    On the day before Mother's Day 1993, Colin and Wendy Parry's lives are torn apart when their youngest son Tim is killed in a terrorist attack by the IRA in Warrington's town centre. The attack shocks ordinary people on both sides of the Irish Sea. Sue McHugh, an unassuming and normally shy Dublin housewife, is deeply affected by the tragedy. Spurred into action by the events in Warrington and the hope that she can make a difference, Sue urges people across Ireland to demonstrate that the killings on all sides must stop. But has Sue underestimated the challenge of brokering peace in a community that has known only conflict? As the grieving Parrys search desperately for answers to their son's senseless killing, they form an alliance with Sue, her husband Arthur, and her Peace '93 movement, travelling to Dublin in a bid to bring about peace and ensure Tim's enduring legacy is one of hope and tolerance. Based on real events.

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  • 1970
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    7.1 1970 HD

    Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.

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  • 1970
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    7.4 1970 HD

    Mayhem and mishaps follow young witch Mildred Hubble wherever she goes. She just can't help it! But with her friends' help, Mildred always manages to avoid disaster just in time.

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  • 1970
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    7.4 1970 HD

    Mayhem and mishaps follow young witch Mildred Hubble wherever she goes. She just can't help it! But with her friends' help, Mildred always manages to avoid disaster just in time.

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  • 1970
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    7.4 1970 HD

    Mayhem and mishaps follow young witch Mildred Hubble wherever she goes. She just can't help it! But with her friends' help, Mildred always manages to avoid disaster just in time.

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  • 1970
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    6.8 1970 HD

    Four ordinary Brits are accused of kidnapping the son of a prominent U.S. media mogul. They embark on a desperate race against time to prove their innocence, but will anyone believe them—and are they telling the truth?

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  • 1970
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    6.7 1970 HD

    Set on a sleeper train traveling from Glasgow to London, a government agency desperately tries to intervene in the rapidly-escalating events onboard. Can two people who've never met, one on the train and one not, work together to save the lives of its disparate group of passengers as the Heart of Britain service hurtles towards what might quite literally be its final destination?

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  • 1970
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    6.7 1970 HD

    Set on a sleeper train traveling from Glasgow to London, a government agency desperately tries to intervene in the rapidly-escalating events onboard. Can two people who've never met, one on the train and one not, work together to save the lives of its disparate group of passengers as the Heart of Britain service hurtles towards what might quite literally be its final destination?

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  • 1970
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    8.2 1970 HD

    The heartwarming and humorous adventures of a young country vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. A remake of the 1978 series.

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  • 1970
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    6.1 1970 HD

    The story of Gabe, an ordinary man who works as an emergency call handler for the Scottish Ambulance Service in Glasgow. His world is turned upside down when he receives a desperate life-and-death call from a woman who appears to know him. With Gabe under pressure to work out who she is, he makes a decision that threatens to have devastating consequences.

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  • 1970
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    6.7 1970 HD

    Set on a sleeper train traveling from Glasgow to London, a government agency desperately tries to intervene in the rapidly-escalating events onboard. Can two people who've never met, one on the train and one not, work together to save the lives of its disparate group of passengers as the Heart of Britain service hurtles towards what might quite literally be its final destination?

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