
Chris Coghill
Actor · b. 1975 · Prestwich, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
Chris Coghill is a British actor, famous for roles in the films 24 Hour Party People and Nowhere Boy, and TV series such as Burn It, EastEnders, Home Fires and Line of Duty. He is also a screenwriter, penning the films Weekender and Spike Island. He met his first wife, Lisa Faulkner, on the set of the BBC3 drama series Burn It and the pair married in 2005 before splitting in 2011. He married his second wife, Rosalind Halstead, in 2014.
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TV4.3SoapDramaThe lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs, lies, deceit, laughter and tears, it's all there in the village.
Emmerdale
1972 · 100 votes
TV8.0CrimeDramaFollow a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.
Slow Horses
2022 · 993 votes
TV4.2SoapDramaThe everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.
EastEnders
1985 · 229 votes
TV5.8SoapDramaDrama series about life on the wards of Holby City Hospital, following the highs and lows of the staff and patients.
Holby City
1999 · 48 votes
TV7.5ComedyDramaThe story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council estate. Whilst they won't admit it, they need help and find it in Steve, a young middle class lad who falls for Fiona, the oldest sibling, and increasingly finds himself drawn to this unconventional and unique family. Anarchic family life seen through the eyes of an exceptionally bright fifteen year old, who struggles to come of age in the context of his belligerent father, closeted brother, psychotic sister and internet porn star neighbors.
Shameless
2004 · 160 votes
TV7.2CrimeDramaSet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
Heartbeat
1992 · 33 votes
TV7.1DramaWaterloo Road is a British television drama series set in a comprehensive school of the same name, first broadcast on BBC One on 9 March 2006, and concluding its original run on 9 March 2015. It was recommissioned in 2021, and resumed starting 9 January 2023. At the failing comprehensive school, and later academy of the same name, the professional and personal lives of the students and staff are examined. Affairs, scandals, blackmail and many, many headteachers. Who said education was easy?
Waterloo Road
2006 · 37 votes
TV7.3DramaComedyNew Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
New Tricks
2004 · 67 votes
TV8.2CrimeDramaA drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
Line of Duty
2012 · 499 votes
TV8.1CrimeDramaThe early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
Endeavour
2013 · 294 votes
TV7.8Action & AdventureMysterySherlock Holmes is a disgraced young man, raw and unfiltered, when he finds himself wrapped up in a murder case that threatens his liberty. His first ever case unravels a globe-trotting conspiracy that changes his life forever.
Young Sherlock
2026 · 310 votes
TV6.8DramaComedyIt's her business doing pleasure with you. A witty and provocative series based on the real-life adventures of a high-class escort. Juggling her own reality with her clients' fantasies can be difficult, but this savvy sweetheart knows every trick in the book, and she's doing it in style.
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
2007 · 142 votes
TV7.3CrimeDramaOn 26 November 1983, six armed men break into the Brink's-Mat security depot, stumbling across gold bullion worth £26m.
The Gold
2023 · 84 votes
TV7.3DramaComedyHotel Babylon is a British television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones. The show followed the lives of workers at a glamorous five-star hotel.
Hotel Babylon
2006 · 40 votes
TV6.7CrimeDramaBlue Murder is a British crime drama television series based in Manchester. Shown on ITV from 2003 until 2009 when it was cancelled by the network, it starred Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis.
Blue Murder
2003 · 15 votes
TV7.0Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaInspector John Marlott investigates a series of crimes in 19th century London, which may have been committed by a scientist intent on re-animating the dead.
The Frankenstein Chronicles
2015 · 144 votes
TV7.1DramaThe police force at Holby South is tasked with the toughest job yet. Not only are they fighting the usual crime with drug offenders and gang members, but today they are faced with the threat of terrorism on their own soil. A Spin off from Holby City and Casualty.
Holby Blue
2007 · 6 votes
TV7.0CrimeDramaThe Driver is a three-part British crime drama serial aired on BBC One between 23 September and 7 October 2014. Written by Danny Brocklehurst and directed by Jamie Payne, it stars David Morrissey as despondent cab driver Vince McKee, whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to be the driver for a criminal gang.
The Driver
2014 · 36 votes
TV6.0DramaCarl, Jon and Andy have been mates forever. They are Generation X-hardened party animals but their party train is grinding to a halt. Andy is getting married. They never thought it would come to this. They have spent 10 years running away from responsibility but now they've reached 30 it has suddenly hit them between the eyes.
Burn It
2003 · 5 votes
TV7.8ComedyA sitcom set in a small pub in Manchester, “The Grapes”, where daily life is bound up in the issues of love, loneliness, and blocked urinals. Regular drinkers Joe and Duffy pass the time with landlord Ken and his police officer cronies.
Early Doors
2003 · 26 votes
TV7.1DramaAnne Williams, from Formby, near Liverpool, was devastated by the loss of her son, 15-year-old Kevin, who was tragically killed at the FA Cup semi-final in 1989 between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Anne stood defiantly alongside other parents and their families who fought for justice for the 96 loved ones who lost their lives at a football match.
Anne
2022 · 19 votes
TV7.0DramaCrimeForced to flee the UK and go into hiding in the 1990s, when he became a mole from within the BNP, Matthew Collins returned to Britain to make a new life for himself, working with young white men in the fight against radicalisation.
The Walk-In
2022 · 49 votes
TV7.8DramaFollows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
The Royal
2003 · 10 votes
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Movie7.2DramaA rebellious teenager, future Beatle John Lennon lives with his Aunt Mimi in working-class mid-1950s Liverpool, England. Mimi's husband suddenly dies, and John spies his mother Julia at the funeral. Despite Mimi's misgivings, John intends to have a real relationship with his mother. Julia introduces him to popular music and the banjo and, though a family conflict looms, young John is inspired to form his own band.
Nowhere Boy
2009 · 874 votes
Movie7.0ComedyDramaManchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.
24 Hour Party People
2002 · 536 votes
Movie6.4CrimeThrillerTen years after he was last seen, a vicious mob enforcer returns home to find his son and methodically track down the gang that double-crossed him. His quest for revenge soon leads to a savage showdown between his wife and her mob boss father.
Bull
2021 · 201 votes
Movie5.4ThrillerA man goes on a bold and reckless journey of self-liberation through London. After he robs a bank he releases a wilder version of himself, ultimately experiencing what it feels like to be alive.
Surge
2020 · 77 votes
Movie6.3ComedyDramaTeenage musicians travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance by their favorite band, the Stone Roses.
Spike Island
2012 · 81 votes
Movie10.0ThrillerComedyMartyn is a man out of time who loves his wife Valkyrie, computers and synthesizers, which he plays in pubs and clubs to unappreciative audiences. But when Val does him wrong and Martyn's life starts to fall apart he retreats into his music, hoping to calm his inner turmoil. But music can summon the dark as well as soothe the soul, and it's not long before Martyn is hitting more than just the keys on his synthesizer keyboard.
Synthesized
2026 · 1 votes
Movie6.5ComedyDramaGripping thriller drama with fantastic all-star cast: Six different stories about crooks, misfits, heroes and their determination to overcome the destiny. Stories about intolerance, hopelessness, betrayal, despair, and the unpredictable.
Heroes and Demons
2012 · 19 votes
Movie2.0DramaCrimeA young ambitious chef gets mixed up with the East End London mob. While showing off his culinary skills, he finds himself trapped.
Bone in the Throat
2015 · 1 votes
Movie6.3ComedyA story about unrequited love, focused on a lonely scientist who toils away in a sperm bank.
The Banker
2004 · 7 votes
Movie5.0ComedyWhen thirty-something David isn't working as a photographer at a high-street photo studio he is stressing over his love-life. Torn between his rather-too-agreeable girlfriend Lisa and the exciting but tricky Nina, he has serious decision to make. When he gets it all wrong and loses them both he has to start all over again.
Someone Else
2006 · 7 votes
Movie5.1DramaMysteryOne-time hard man Frank Barron is barely recognisable now he’s been afflicted with Alzheimer's, but when his estranged son Jamie visits him in hospital he realises the extra stress Frank is put under and decides to break him out in the hope of returning him to his family. As the two travel across the country, beginning to bond along the way, it soon transpires that both Frank and Jamie are at odds with their past.
Ashes
2012 · 15 votes
Movie6.0CrimeDramaDrama 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.
Murdered for Being Different
2017 · 14 votes
Movie4.6DramaFrank is an ex-soldier, haunted by a violent past. He lives alone, drowning his nightmares with alcohol. Christine - smart and successful... on the surface, tackles life as a single working mother by immersing herself in drugs, parties and sex. Lynette, a young rough sleeper watches Christine stumble out of a club whilst she sits in the cold waiting for loose change to fall on her lap; her luck seems to change when she meets Frank who despite his misgivings, offers her a place to stay.
Junkhearts
2011 · 16 votes
Movie6.0ComedyYearning to be married Fran Goldman is forced to reassess his strategy of love after being dumped by his fiancée four weeks before the wedding.
Honeymooner
2010 · 6 votes
Movie9.5DramaCrimeIt's Lila Pettitt's first day as the youngest female judge the British court system's ever seen. Fiercely ambitious, Lila's determined to dispense real justice, not just obey the letter of the law. But a shocking betrayal by her mentor, Will Carlisle QC, makes Lila realise that the legal world she's devoted her life to is far murkier than she ever could have imagined.
Lawless
2013 · 2 votes
MovieDramaTV MovieEx-cons Paul, Dino and Terry are very good at being friends, but aren't so good at making money. Their decorating business is on the ropes and with Paul under pressure to abandon a sinking ship, will their firm - and their friendship - be able to survive?
Magnolia
2006