Lewis has just finished directing and executive producing all seven parts of THE LONG SHADOW for New Pictures/ITV. Prior to this he directed James Graham’s SHERWOOD for House Productions/BB1 and Jimmy McGovern’s TIME for BBC Studios. All three shows were nominated for multiple TV BAFTAs in 2022/23/24, with TIME going on to win Best Mini-Series, as well as Lewis being nominated in the Best Director Category in both 2022 for TIME and most recently in 2024 for THE LONG SHADOW.
In 2020 he directed and executive produced DES for New Pictures and ITV, having created the three-part drama with writer Luke Neal. The series won the International Emmy Award for Best Performance By An Actor in 2021, and was also nominated for Best TV Movie/Mini-Series. The first episode had consolidated viewing figures of 11.4 million making it ITV’s biggest new series since the launch of series CLEANING UP in January 2019, a show which he developed with writer Mark Marlow, directing the first four episodes for Sister Pictures.
It was on graduating from the National Film and Television School in March 2013, that Lewis embarked on directing his first TV project, directing two episodes of the final series of BAFTA-winning C4 show, MISFITS. He followed this up by directing the first four episodes of Russell T Davies’s new E4 show, BANANA, and was named a Broadcast Magazine Hotshot 2014 for his work on both shows. Other credits include BROADCHURCH and HUMANS, which became Channel 4’s most successful original drama in over 20 years when it aired in 2015.
Lewis is also represented in the US by Matt Greenberg and Jon Cassir at CAA.