George Kay

Writer and producer

George Kay is an English television writer, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known as the creator of the Netflix series Lupin and Criminal, the Apple TV+ thriller Hijack, and ITV's The Long Shadow. He has also worked on the shows Litvinenko, Stag, My Mad Fat Diary, The Hour, The Tunnel, and the first season of Killing Eve. Whilst a teenage student at Wellington College, Berkshire, Kay met director Jim Field Smith, with whom he often collaborates. Kay began his career in non-scripted entertainment, serving as head of development at Twenty Twenty Television and head of factual at Blast! Films, where he co-created productions such as The Choir, Evacuation, and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Kay became a full-time writer in 2009, after he won the Brit List with his feature script Good Luck Anthony Belcher. He went on to write episodes of The Hour for the BBC, The Tunnel for Sky, and two episodes of the first season of Killing Eve. Whilst writing the script for Litvinenko, Kay had access to transcripts of Alexander Litvinenko's eighteen hours of deathbed interviews with the London Metropolitan Police. Litvinenko's widow, Marina, and the Metropolitan Police supported the production of the series. The show has been sold to over eighty international territories.

What are George Kay's films like?

Across their 8 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Bonds.

Themes

share of theme weight

Morality

33%

Bonds

25%

Power

18%

Ideas

15%

Self

7%

Society

2%

Justice3 Power3 Truth3 Family bonds2 Deception2

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense

7

Contemplative

4

Cold

2

Hopeful

1

Melancholic

1

Other

3

How their films linger

Thought-provoking6 Unsettling5 Infuriating2

How their films end · 4 with a twist

Happy2
Bittersweet2
Ambiguous4

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch George Kay's films?

As of October 24, 2026, all 12 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Netflix (7).

Also on these channels

MyOutdoorTV1 title, show their title on MyOutdoorTV

Subscription and free streaming for George Kay's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

20 credits, 12 with a MovieCove page.

War(2026)
Show 8 episodes · Creator · Executive Producer · Writer
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all shows
Blood Sacrifice(2026)
Show 5 episodes · Creator · Executive Producer · Writer
Midcredits score: 17th percentile of all shows
Gone(2026)
Show 6 episodes · Creator · Executive Producer · Writer
Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all shows
The Long Shadow(2023)
Show 7 episodes · Creator · Executive Producer · Writer
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all shows
Hijack(2023)
Show 7 episodes · Creator · Executive Producer · Writer
Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all shows
Litvinenko (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Show 4 episodes · Creator · Writer
Lupin(2021)
Show 17 episodes · Adaptation · Creator · Dialogue · Screenplay · Story
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all shows
Criminal: France(2019)
Show 1 episode · Creator · Writer
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all shows
Criminal: Germany(2019)
Show Creator · Writer
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all shows
Criminal: Spain(2019)
Show Creator · Writer
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all shows
Criminal: UK(2019)
Show 7 episodes · Creator · Producer · Writer
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all shows
Killing Eve(2018)
Show 2 episodes · Writer
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all shows
Stag (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Show 3 episodes · Creator · Executive Producer · Writer
Barbados (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Writer
Our Zoo(2014)
Show Writer
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all shows
Trimming the Fat (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Executive Producer
Where Have I Been All Your Life? (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Writer
Goodbye to the Normals (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Writer
Missing Moscow (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
Director
The Wanted Man (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Show Creator · Executive Producer

Career shape

A full career of 19 titles, 18 of them dated from 2004 to 2026.

Highest rated

Our Zoo (2014)

Midcredits 93^rd

By role

only this rolewith another role

Directing1 of 19Writing12 of 19 · 79^thProducing8 of 19 · 53^rdOther crew13 of 19 · 60^th

19 titles, 11 with more than one role — other crew and writing overlap on 8 of them.

By decade

2000s4 · crew2010s7 · crew2020s7 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

Who does George Kay work with?

People who share at least 2 of George Kay's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Jim Field Smith shares the most, 4.

Directors

Jim Field Smith4 titles · 2 as director See all 4 shared titles with Jim Field Smith

Writers

Emilie Robson2 titles See all 2 shared titles with Emilie Robson
Alejandro Hernández2 titles See all 2 shared titles with Alejandro Hernández
Antonin Martin-Hilbert2 titles See all 2 shared titles with Antonin Martin-Hilbert
Sebastian Heeg2 titles See all 2 shared titles with Sebastian Heeg