Charlie Skelton

Writer · Suffolk, England, UK

Charlie Skelton is a comedy writer and journalist. He has worked as a script editor on shows including Channel 4’s 10 O’Clock Live, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, You Have Been Watching, and the radio show So Wrong It’s Right. His writing credits include Have I Got News For You, 8 Out of 10 Cats, and The Big Fat Quiz of the Year. He co‑wrote Once More, With Feeling with Victoria Coren Mitchell, and reported on the Bilderberg Group for The Guardian from 2009 to 2014. Charlie also co-founded The Friday Thing and The London News Review.

What are Charlie Skelton's films like?

Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Ideas.

Themes

share of theme weight

Society

34%

Ideas

27%

Self

22%

Bonds

11%

Power

6%

Community3 Identity2

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Joyful

4

Absurd

3

Contemplative

3

Warm

1

Manic

1

Other

1

How their films linger

Fun5 Thought-provoking3 Feel-good2

How their films end

Bittersweet1
Ambiguous2
Cyclical2

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 Charlie Skelton's films?

As of October 24, 2026, all 5 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.

Subscription and free streaming for Charlie Skelton'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

7 credits, 5 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.

Saturday Night Live UK(2026)
Show 8 episodes · Writers' Production
Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all shows
Last One Laughing: UK(2025)
Show 2 episodes · Writer
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all shows
Frankie Boyle's Farewell to the Monarchy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Staff Writer
Attack of the Hollywood Cliches!(2021)
Writer
Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all films
Death to 2021(2021)
Writer
Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films
Frankie Boyle's Tour of Scotland(2020)
Show Writer
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all shows
SunTrap (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Show 6 episodes · Creator · Writer

Career shape

A full career of 5 titles from 2015 to 2026.

Highest rated

Last One Laughing: UK (2025)

Midcredits 85^th

By role

only this rolewith another role

Writing5 of 5Other crew1 of 5

By decade

2010s1 · crew2020s4 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it.

Who does Charlie Skelton work with?

People who share at least 2 of Charlie Skelton's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; James Farmer shares the most, 2.