Audrey Cooke

DI Ray is set in Birmingham and follows Leicester-born Rachita Ray, a police officer who takes on a case that forces her to confront a lifelong personal conflict between her British identity and her South Asian heritage.

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For London's bomb disposal experts, no day is ever the same as they risk their lives protecting the city from harm.

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The arrival of DC Leila Hussain sets tongues wagging – what brings this big city girl to a sleepy Northern Irish seaside town? Warm-hearted detective drama in a stunning setting.

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Northern Irish police officer DCI Tom Brannick connects a suicide note with an infamous cold case with enormous personal significance.

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Burnt out on office politics, Agatha Raisin retires early to a picturesque village in the Cotswolds and soon finds a second career as an amateur detective investigating mischief, mayhem, and murder in her deceptively quaint town.

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In The Club follows six pregnant women and their partners as they get ready for the arrival of their babies at the local parenting class. Housewife Diane, schoolgirl Rosie, newlywed Jasmin, businesswoman Roanna, midwife Vicky and writer and teaching assistant Kim all have their own issues to deal with.

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A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie.

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Double Time was a British one-off comedy drama starring James Dreyfus. It received its premier in the United Kingdom on ITV at 9pm on Monday 31 December 2007. Its airing had been delayed since 2005 for unknown reasons.

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Waterloo 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?

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Shane is an ITV sitcom written by and starring Frank Skinner and directed by Audrey Cooke, with the first series originally broadcast in 2004. Reviews were generally poor, but a second series was commissioned. After the second series had been recorded contract differences between Frank Skinner and ITV arose; the second series is yet to be broadcast and its future is uncertain, since Skinner no longer works for ITV. An American version of the show is to be piloted by CBS, with Skinner working as executive producer.

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Stockbroker Terry, art expert Patrick, orthodontist James and decking supremo Gary have been friends since their schooldays. Now, having all reached the age of 50, they are intent on reliving the freedom of their youth, buying hip new clothes and dating beautiful younger women, but despite their best efforts, the concerns of middle-age still catch up with them.

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A series of self-contained stories, each recounting a murder scene as seen from the chilling viewpoint of the killer. Explore the inner workings of a criminal's brain, revealing humanity at its darkest.

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Fat Friends is an ITV drama created by Kay Mellor, broadcast from 12 October 2000 to 24 March 2005. It follows a group of overweight people, their laughter and pain and addresses the absurdities of dieting in our modern age. It examines people and how they relate to one another and use body weight as an excuse for all sorts of failings in their relationships, or not living their lives to the full. Four cast members—Ruth Jones, James Corden, Sheridan Smith, and Alison Steadman—went on to appear in Gavin & Stacey.

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Eve Turner is an ambitious military officer with a brilliant career ahead of her, but when she suffers a brutal attack by two officers, her world falls apart.

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Four 20-somethings are coasting through life in a fashionable part of London. A misunderstanding leads to the introduction of a stranger into their home, who starts to take control...

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An anthology series of horror stories by contemporary British screenwriters.

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Drama series about life on the wards of Holby City Hospital, following the highs and lows of the staff and patients.

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Sophisticated woman-of-the world Adela Bradley and her chauffeur George Moody are an unlikely pair of investigators back in the England of the 1920s. Free from her boring husband, Adela tours England but always stumbles onto murder and mystery. Although she is the primary detective, she relies on George to get information to help her solve the case.

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Alex Marsden is a handsome and celebrated cardiac surgeon with a champagne lifestyle. His two closest friends are Marcella and her husband Larry. Marcella and Alex are in the middle of an affair when Larry develops a heart problem. A heart bypass operation will save him and Larry wants Alex to perform it.

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Cardiac surgeon Alex Marsden has an affair with Marcella Duggan, but then finds himself having to operate on her husband Larry, who is also his friend.

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The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

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Five aspiring lawyers are aiming for the top - but behind the scenes they're a mess of love, drugs and excess.

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This series shows the workings of an English hospital through the eyes of its junior doctors. Naive and idealistic Dr Andrew Collins (Andrew Lancel), soon realises he still has much to learn. His boss, Dr Claire Maitland (Helen Baxendale) on the other hand, has seen it all. She is a competent doctor, with a cynical view, and is ready to work the system when needed, but she and Collins work well together as she guides him through the many minefields of working in the NHS.

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The 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.

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The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.

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The ground-breaking soap set in a housing estate on the outskirts of Liverpool.

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The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.

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