Amnesia (2004)Torn (2007)A Mother's Son (2012)Undeniable (2014)Unforgotten (2015– ) Innocent (2018- ) Chris Lang (born 1961) is a British screenwriter, producer and actor.

As an actor he worked on such British television series as Shadow of the Noose, Drop the Dead Donkey, Outside Edge, A Dance to the Music of Time and All Along the Watchtower.

In his youth, he formed a comedy revue called The Jockeys of Norfolk with Andy Taylor and Hugh Grant,[1] but stopped acting in the mid nineties in order to fully concentrate on his writing career.

The first series of Unforgotten starred Nicola Walker, Trevor Eve, Sir Tom Courtenay, Cherie Lunghi, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Gemma Jones, Hannah Gordon, Ruth Sheen and Bernard Hill, and was broadcast in Autumn 2015.

In December 2018, The Hook Up Plan, an eight-part romantic comedy that Lang created and co-wrote, and which shot in Paris, aired on Netflix.

It returned for a fifth series in February 2023 with Sinead Keenan now starring alongside Sanjeev Bhaskar and aired to a first episode audience of 8.4 million, making it the highest rated ITV programme of the year, and third most watched drama across all channels.

In the late noughties, he co-formed TXTV, through which he made much of his work, including Innocent, a four-part thriller starring Lee Ingleby, Hermione Norris, Nigel Lindsay and Angel Coulby.

In April 2022, he saw the broadcast of The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe starring Monica Dolan and Eddie Marsan, the true story of John and Anne Darwin, which Lang wrote and for which he was the executive producer.

The series was selected for competition at the Geneva International Film Festival in November 2022 with Lang as a guest speaker and was nominated for 'Best serial' at the 'Broadcast Awards' 2022.

Starring John Simm, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Gemma Jones, Daniel Rigby, James Fleet and Zoe Tapper, it will broadcast in early 2025.