James is an award-winning and highly sought-after writer, who has written for the BAFTA-winning Murder In Successville. As well has having a decade’s experience writing for TV on panel shows such as Never Mind The Buzzcocks and A League Of Their Own, James has also written on big budget entertainment shows such as NBC’s ‘The Courtship’ and hit comedies such as ‘Backstage with Katherine Ryan’ for Amazon Prime. James is an accomplished sketch-writer and has won awards writing shortform books for the Guardian, Twitter feeds for Dave, and for his short film ‘1500 Words’.
Credits
The Fortune Hotel, Tuesday’s Child, ITV, 2023
Gladiators, Hungry Bear, ITV, 2023
Celebrity Juice, Talkback Thames, ITV, 2022
The Jonathan Ross Show, Hot Sauce TV, ITV, 2022
The Weakest Link with Romesh Ranganathan, BBC, 2022
I Literally Just Told You with Jimmy Carr, Expectation, Channel 4, 2022
The Really Really Rude Puppet Show, RDF, Channel 4, 2022
Backstage with Katherine Ryan, Amazon Prime, 2022
Vogue film for Billie Piper & Gemma Chan, British Vogue, 2022
The Emily Atack Sketch Show – series 2, Monkey, ITV2, 2022
The Courtship, ESNA, NBC, 2022
Celebrity Catchphrase, STV, ITV, 2021
The Big Narstie Show, Expectation Entertainment, Channel 4, 2021
Complaints Welcome, Rumpus, Channel 4, 2021
The Emily Atack Show, Monkey, ITV2, 2021
Peter Crouch’s Year Late Euros: Live, Fulwell 73, BBC One, 2021
Undeniable, Monkey Kingdom, 2021
It’s Clarkson On TV, Expectation Entertainment, ITV, 2021
Bamous, Koska, BBC Three, 2021
Blankety Blank, Talkback Thames, ITV2, 2020
Save Our Summer, Fulwell 73, BBC One, 2020
Peter Crouch Saves Our Summer, Fulwell 73, BBC, 2020
Celebrity Juice, Talkback Thames, ITV2, 2020
The Big Narstie Show, Expectation Entertainment, Channel 4, 2020
Take Off, Hungry Bear, BBC, 2020
Channel 4's Alternative Election, Expectation Entertainment, Channel 4, 2019
Peter Crouch's Eurofest (Pilot), Fulwell 73, 2019
Celebrity Juice (series 22), Talkback ITV2, 2019
The Rob Rinder Verdict, Expectations Entertainment, Channel 4, 2019
Redknapp's Big Night In, Expectation Entertainment, 2019
Tom Allen Goes To Town, Rumpus Media, Channel 4, 2019
The Tez O'Clock Show, Expectation Entertainment, 2019
Epic Game Show Series, Talkback, 2019
The Mo Gilligan Show, Expectation Entertainment, Channel 4, 2019
The Booth, Tiger Aspect, 2019
My Teenage Diary, Talkback, Radio 4, 2019
Celebrity Juice (Series 21), Talkback, ITV2, 2019
Celebrity Mask Party, Hungry Bear Media, ITV2, 2019
Gagging Order, Gobstopper TV, E4, 2019
Romesh's Look Back To The Future, Hungry Bear Media, Sky One, 2019
Judge Romesh, Hungry Bear Media, Dave, 2019
Blockbusters, Talkback, Comedy Central, 2018
It’s Showtime with Bradley Walsh, Hungry Bear, ITV, 2018
Play Your Cards Right (Pilot), Talkback, 2018
Alan Carr Pilot, Expectation Entertainment, Sky, 2018
What Is Music Videos, Starstruck Media, BBC iPlayer, 2018
Through the Keyhole, Talkback, ITV, 2018
Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back, Rumpus Media, Channel 4, 2018
Alan Carr’s New Year’s Eve Spectacular, Open Mike, 2017
Action Team, Shiny Button, ITV2, 2017
Go 8 Bit, DLT, Dave, 2017
Murder in Successville: Series 3, Tiger Aspect, BBC 3, 2017
Extra Gear, BBC3, 2016
Alan Carr Project, Znak & Jones, Channel 4, 2016
Safe Word: series 2, STV, ITV2, 2016
Murder In Successville: Series 2, Tiger Aspect, BBC 3, 2015
Safe Word: series 1, STV, ITV2, 2015
The News Quiz for Sandi Toksvig, BBC Radio 4, 2015
Virtually Famous: series 1 & 2, Talkback, E4, 2014-2015
Celebrity Juice, Talkback, ITV2, 2014
Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Talkback, BBC 2, 2013
A League of Their Own, CPL Productions, Sky One, 2012-2013
Online
DAVE – Writing the Twitter feed and Facebook page for the channel DAVE.
The Daily Mash (Nov’12 – March’13)
Writing satirical news pieces for popular comic website.
Awards scripts
The Mini Awards for Alan Carr, 2020-2023
The BMW Awards, 2020-2023
Elle Style Awards 2014 & 2015 script for Nick Grimshaw.
The Radio 1 Teen Awards 2013 & 2014 script for Nick Grimshaw & Rita Ora.
The MusicWeek Awards 2011 script for Rick Edwards.
NME Awards 2008 ‘voice of God’ script.
Awards
BAFTA – Best Comedy Programme – Murder In Successville
Lovie Award – Best comedy social media feed [Dave]
Best Super Short film – New York Indie Film Festival 2015
Best Screenplay – ‘1500 Words’ – Milan Film Festival 2015.
Best Comedy – London Independent Film Festival 2016.
Best Comedy – Underground Film Festival 2015.
