From 1993, he worked as a journalist for several years, freelancing for The Guardian, City Life, and Manchester Evening News while serving as a senior feature writer for The Big Issue.
[9] His Company Pictures produced four-part ITV drama, Talk To Me, starring Max Beesley, Laura Fraser, Adrian Bower, Kate Ashfield and Emma Pierson.
[citation needed] In 2011 it was announced that Brocklehurst would write a new HBO drama, Dirty, with Andrea Arnold attached to direct.
[18] In February 2014, HBO announced a project called A Teacher, which would be co-written by Brocklehurst and Hannah Fidell, and executive produced by Mark Duplass.
[20][21] Come Home, a three-part BBC drama, aired in April 2018, starring Christopher Eccleston and Paula Malcomson.
[22] The Stranger, also co-written with Coben, debuted on Netflix in January 2020, starring Richard Armitage, Stephen Rea and Jennifer Saunders.
Parish, the American version of his hit UK show The Driver aired on AMC in 2024, starring Giancarlo Esposito.
[28] Brocklehurst has written three award-winning plays, My Eight Times Table, Nobody and Loaded (transferred to Radio Four),[29] as well being story adviser and book co-writer of the West End (and national touring) musical Never Forget.
[32] It stars Hugo Speer as Detective Inspector John Stone and every episode features a morally complex crime.
[citation needed] He wrote a play about Margaret Thatcher's mutually assured destruction policy in the 1980s, The End of The World,[33] a thriller about a man who seems to have ceased to exist, Nobody, an Australian set examination of greed, Loaded and a single drama about an eighty-year-old woman who admits to a series of brutal murders, Mary Shane.
Brocklehurst wrote the podcast Ecstasy: The Battle Of Rave that features David Morrissey, Monica Dolan, Ian Hart, Meera Syal and Ade Edmondson.