Robin Sheppard
Robin Sheppard (sometimes credited as Robin Shepperd) is a British television director who has directed Lucky Jim, Octavia, Cherished, The Bad Mother's Handbook, and episodes of Kingdom, Casualty, Playing the Field and At Home with the Braithwaites. She was jointly nominated for a British Academy Television Award in 1998 for her work on Wing and a Prayer, and Cherished won the Best Drama Documentary Grierson Award in 2005. Shepperd will be directing the 2010 episodic video game, Venus Redemption.
Perfect Strangers (2004)
When a man and a woman swap jobs and cities temporarily, they face many problems large and small, but their phone calls develop into romance. (more)
When a man and a woman swap jobs and cities temporarily, they face many problems large and small, but their phone calls develop into romance. (more)
Lucky Jim (2003)
A rollicking adaptation of Kingsley Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at a provincial British university, trying to make a splash with his pompous boss, Professor Neddy Welch (Robert Hardy). Jim is also trying ... (more)
A rollicking adaptation of Kingsley Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at a provincial British university, trying to make a splash with his pompous boss, Professor Neddy Welch (Robert Hardy). Jim is also trying ... (more)
The Bad Mother's Handbook (2007)
Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she's its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and futures, rather then help her loved-ones. (more)
Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she's its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and futures, rather then help her loved-ones. (more)
The Last Witch
(2013)
A young woman abruptly moves into an elderly lady's house. Strange things start to happen and soon it becomes clear witchcraft is involved. (more)
A young woman abruptly moves into an elderly lady's house. Strange things start to happen and soon it becomes clear witchcraft is involved. (more)
Cherished
(2005)
A drama based on the true story of Angela Cannings, who was wrongly convicted of killing two of her children, on the basis of "expert witness" evidence about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Cot Death Syndrome) which has since been discredited. (more)
A drama based on the true story of Angela Cannings, who was wrongly convicted of killing two of her children, on the basis of "expert witness" evidence about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Cot Death Syndrome) which has since been discredited. (more)
The English Harem (2005)
Tracy a young working class girl, who - against the wishes of her parents and racist ex-boyfriend - becomes one of three wives of West London Persian restaurateur, Sam. (more)
Tracy a young working class girl, who - against the wishes of her parents and racist ex-boyfriend - becomes one of three wives of West London Persian restaurateur, Sam. (more)
Octavia (2009)
Based in the 1970s Britain, "Octavia" charts the schemes of the title character to steal her friend's man. (more)
Based in the 1970s Britain, "Octavia" charts the schemes of the title character to steal her friend's man. (more)
Hawkins (2001)
Hawkins was an original film for BBC Television about a man who lives a double life, as a Nietzschean Philosophy Lecturer and as a Detective who is fascinated by lowlife and criminal mentalities. (more)
Hawkins was an original film for BBC Television about a man who lives a double life, as a Nietzschean Philosophy Lecturer and as a Detective who is fascinated by lowlife and criminal mentalities. (more)