James Hawes

James Hawes is a British television director, who has worked on a variety of British television dramas since the early 1990s, and also produced documentaries for British and American networks.

Programmes he has directed have included "The Chatterley Affair", "Miss Marie Lloyd - Queen of The Music Hall", "The Bill", "Holby City", "Sea of Souls" and "Doctor Who". In 1990 he directed HRH Prince Charles in the documentary, "The Earth In Balance". Other documentary work includes "Inside Story" for the BBC, the Emmy Award-nominated "Egypt's Golden Empire" the 2003 drama-documentary "", which he both wrote and directed.

After completing directing duties on the first block of episodes of series two of "Doctor Who", in early 2006 Hawes directed an Andrew Davies-scripted 90-minute television drama based around the "Lady Chatterley's Lover" obscenity trial of 1960, "The Chatterley Affair". This one-off drama for digital television channel BBC Four features "Doctor Who" star David Tennant as Richard Hoggart.

Hawes was also announced in late 2005 as the producer and lead director of the forthcoming "Doctor Who" spin-off series "Torchwood" — however, in early 2006 it was confirmed that he would not in fact be producing the series. According to "Doctor Who" and "Torchwood" executive producer Russell T Davies in "Doctor Who Magazine" issue 366 (dated March 1 2006), Hawes' direction of the Chatterley piece and his decision to back down from producing "Torchwood" were related. "James Hawes has been having such a good time... that he's decided directing is his greatest passion, and as a result, he's stepped down."

Hawes' work on the BAFTA winning "Doctor Who" has been particularly well received. "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances" won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form in 2006, [cite web
url = http://www.locusmag.com/2006/News/08_HugoCampbellWinners.html
title = Hugo and Campbell Awards Winners
work = Locus Online
accessdate = 2006-08-27
date = 2006-08-26] and "School Reunion" has been nominated for the 2007 ceremony. Hawes was awarded the BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Drama Director for his work on "The Christmas Invasion". [cite news|first=Karen|last=Price|url=http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0900entertainment/0050artsnews/tm_objectid=16875977&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=doctor-who-dominates-welsh-baftas-name_page.html|title=Doctor Who dominates Welsh Baftas|publisher=The Western Mail|date=2006-04-23|accessdate=2006-04-23] "The Chatterley Affair" also won Best Single Drama in the same awards.

In 2007 he directed an adaptation of the 18th century novel "Fanny Hill", for Sally Head Productions and BBC Four. [cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/07_july/13/fanny.shtml|title=BBC Four gets turned on to Andrew Davies' steamy adaptation of Fanny Hill|publisher=bbc.co.uk|date=2007-07-13|accessdate=2007-07-13] He is one of the directors of the forthcoming BBC fantasy series "Merlin",cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/03_march/17/merlin.shtml|title=Richard Wilson and Anthony Head lead cast in Merlin, a fantasy drama for BBC One|publisher=bbc.co.uk|date=2008-03-17|accessdate=2008-08-30] and has been announced as the director of a new version of "The 39 Steps", to be shown on BBC One at Christmas.cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/08_august/21/39steps.shtml|title=The 39 Steps|publisher=bbc.co.uk|date=2008-08-21|accessdate=2008-08-30]

References

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0369949/ James Hawes] at the Internet Movie Database.