Daniel Percival is a British BAFTA-winning director and screenwriter of television drama.
[1][2] Having originally trained as a film editor Percival started directing documentaries for the BBC in the mid 1990s.
One of his earliest successes was a two-part series about depression for Channel 4 in England, New Britain on the Couch, presented by psychologist Oliver James, as well as Ancient Inventions.
The series, a joint production between BBC Films and BBC America, follows Sir Mark Brydon (Jason Isaacs), the British Ambassador to Washington, who is caught in the centre of a political conspiracy threatening to depose Western governments.
[5] Other work includes Death Comes to Pemberley[6] and Jimmy McGovern's Banished, and several Frank Spotnitz productions, such as Chris Ryan's Strike Back, Crossing Lines, Hunted and Leonardo.