Ben
Harris

Writer for television

Ben began his career on Sky One’s cult drama Dream Team where, after three seasons as a writer, he progressed to Series Producer and Executive Producer. 

Ben has gone on to show-run Big Light series Ransom, having also written on ITV series Marcella, the second season of Transporter for Atlantique Productions, and international cop show Crossing Lines previously. Ben has also worked on shows such as The Musketeers, Hunted and The Paradise, while developing his various original projects with independent production companies and BBC in-house.

In August 2013 Ben took up a role as a lecturer on 'Serial Eyes'; a Berlin-based postgraduate course for industry professionals from all over Europe, focused on honing script-writing and production skills, particularly within a writer's room system.

Most recently he has been commissioned by ITV to write Dark Heart and Environment.

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Television

Writer

Dark Heart - Series 2
ITV
Wasta
1 x 60'

Drama

Route 24 Ltd
In development
Ransom
2 X 60
Producer Ben Schiffer
Director Erik Canuel
Starring
  • Luke Roberts
    •

    Drama Series

    Big Light Productions for CBS
    Marcella
    1 x 60'
    Producer Andrew Woodhead
    Director Jonathan Teplitzky

    Dark crime serial created by Hans Rosenfeldt

    Buccaneer Media for ITV
    Crossing Lines
    1 x 60'
    Producer Rick McCallum
    Starring
  • Elizabeth Mitchell
  • Donald Sutherland
  • Goran Visnijic
  • Tom Wlaschiha
    •

    Pan-European police drama

    TF1 Productions for Sat 1 and Sony AXN
    Hidden
    3 x 60'

    Adaptation of crime thriller novel by Emma Kavanagh

    Euston Films for ITV
    In development
    Transporter, Season 2
    2 x 60'
    Producer Jan Bennemann
    Director Erik Canuel
    Starring
  • Chris Vance
    •

    Action series 

    Atlantique Productions for M6, HBO Canada, TNT, Netflix
    Republica
    Drama serial set in London 2049 – a utopia that quickly unravels
    Original treatment
    Butterfly
    Producer Katrin Goetter

    Set in the Wild West during the Gold Rush, one woman’s battle against impossible odds to get her son back

    Real Film Berlin
    In development
    The Paradise, series 2
    1 x 60'
    Creator Bill Gallagher

    Period drama

    BBC for BBC1
    The Musketeers
    1 x 60'
    Creator Adrian Hodges
    Producer Colin Wratten
    Director Andy Hay

    Drama

    BBC in-house for BB1
    Hunted
    Creator Frank Spotnitz
    Starring
  • Melissa George
    •

    Drama

    Kudos for BBC One
    Hollyoaks
    Producer Lucy Allan

    Long-running soap. Executive Producer Tony Wood

    Lime Pictures for Channel 4
    Dream Team: Series 4 to 9
    10 x 60'
    Starring
  • Rob Kazinsky
  • Alison King
  • Luke Mably
  • Ramon Tikaram
    •

    Drama based around fictional Premiership football club.

    Hewland International for Sky One
    Dream Team: Series 7
    32 x 60'
    Starring
  • Chris Brazier
  • Philip Brodie
  • Leigh Cranston
  • Danny Husbands
    •

    Drama

    Hewland International for Sky One

    Executive Producer

    Dream Team: Series 9
    32 x 60'
    Hewland International for Sky One

    Writer & Creator

    Wasta

    Drama

    Route 24 Ltd
    In development
    Mammon
    1 x 60'
    Drama serial. Our hero discovers a dark secret behind a
    New York investment bank
    Spec pilot
    Henry The 1/8th
    1 x 60'

    Comedy / drama serial. A junior doctor with behavioural problems discovers his vocation is to be a drug dealer

    Spec script

    Other

    Executive Producer

    Serial Eyes
    Lecturer at Berlin Film School, Europe’s first postgraduate 9-month full time programme focused on serial drama writing and production
    Met Film School

    Lecturer, Met Film School, Ealing Studios