David Upshal is a British television producer.
[1] His work includes Victorian Farm,[2] Victorian Pharmacy,[3][4] Edwardian Farm,[5][6] Wartime Farm,[7][8] Tales from the Green Valley,[9] Tudor Monastery Farm,[10][11] The True Face of War,[12] Days That Shook The World,[13][14] Outbreak Investigation,[15] Tony Benn: Free at Last, Gordon Brown's Missing Billions,[16] Summer of Noise,[17][18] The Gospel of Gospel,[19] Pilgrimage with Simon Reeve,[20] On Tour with the Queen,[21] Lulu: Something to Shout About,[22] Secrets of the Castle,[23] The Hunt for the Arctic Ghost Ship[24][25] and the historical skills game show Escape in Time,[26][27] for which he is also credited as format devisor.
[28][29] He previously directed the Channel 4 series The Hip Hop Years (short-listed for a BAFTA[30]) and the landmark BBC series Windrush[31] (winner of the 1999 Royal Television Society Award for Best Documentary Series[32][33]).
He began his television career at the BBC where his credits included The Late Show,[34] Reportage, Reputations,[35] Decisive Weapons[36][37] and Vietnam: The Camera at War.
[38] In 2017, he produced and directed The Seven Ages of Elvis,[39] a 90-minute feature documentary broadcast by Sky Arts to mark the 40th anniversary of Elvis Presley.