Mark Chappell is a British sitcom writer and screenwriter. His credits include My Life in Film(for BBC Three), Tony Blair, Rock Star (for Channel 4 Television/V Good Films), Perfect Day, The Millennium (for Five/World Productions), The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, Flaked, and the fourth series of Cold Feet (for Granada). He wrote the 2022 movie See How They Run. He attended Marling School, Stroud, Gloucestershire. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mark Chappell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Writer and producer, also director
- 7 on MovieCove · 12 credits in all
What are Mark Chappell's films like?
Across their 6 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
Light 2 · Serious 1 · Dark 0
A split, not a type: Grounded 2 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 1
Gentle 2 · Charged 1 · Intense 0
Steady 2 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 0 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 1
Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
A split, not a type: Casual 1 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 2 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 0
A split, not a type: Resolved 1 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy2
- Bittersweet4
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 Mark Chappell's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 6 of their 7 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
- BritBox
Subscription and free streaming for Mark Chappell'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
12 credits, 7 with a MovieCove page.
Finding Father Christmas(2025)
Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films
Is This Thing On?(2025)
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films
See How They Run(2022)
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
Bliss(2017)
Midcredits score: 5th percentile of all shows
Flaked(2016)
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all shows
The Rack Pack (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all showsBBC Comedy Feeds (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Perfect Day: The Millennium (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Tony Blair: Rock Star (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
My Life in Film (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
Hustle(2004)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all shows
Career shape
A full career of 11 titles from 2004 to 2025.
Biggest box office
See How They Run (2022)
Highest rated
A Young Doctor's Notebook & Other Stories (2012)
Most popular right now
Flaked (2016)
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.
Awards
Nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2023, Outstanding British Film of the Year.
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Mark Chappell's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 58th percentile, the median of all 3; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 58th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up2
- 50th to 74th3
- 25th to 49th1
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
4 of their 7 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved1
- Crowd Pleaser4
- Mixed2
Reviewers score the dialogue 65/100 and the plot and story 55/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Mark Chappell's work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 4 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Mark Chappell work with?
People who share at least 2 of Mark Chappell's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Kenton Allen shares the most, 3.
Writers
- Will ArnettShared titles: Is This Thing On? (2025), Flaked (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Will Arnett
Editors
- Mark HensonShared titles: Bliss (2017), A Young Doctor's Notebook & Other Stories (2012)See all 2 shared titles with Mark Henson
Producers
- Kenton AllenShared titles: Finding Father Christmas (2025), Bliss (2017), A Young Doctor's Notebook & Other Stories (2012)See all 3 shared titles with Kenton Allen
- Clelia MountfordShared titles: Bliss (2017), A Young Doctor's Notebook & Other Stories (2012)See all 2 shared titles with Clelia Mountford
- Matthew JusticeShared titles: Bliss (2017), A Young Doctor's Notebook & Other Stories (2012)See all 2 shared titles with Matthew Justice
