A BAFTA and EMMY award-winning screenwriter, James is creator of the international football thriller The Window for ZDF Studios and Fuji TV, and co-creator of Sky adventure series Hooten and The Lady.

His East Enders episode “Phil’s Psychosis: The Mitchells in 1985” won the 2025 British Soap Award for Best Single Episode.

Contributing writer credits include Mr Selfridge, The Musketeers, Ashes to Ashes, Death in Paradise and Hustle.

James has also worked extensively in the middle-east, creating and writing two series for MBC. He created the Beirut-set Arabic webdrama Shankaboot, which ran for five series and won the Reflet D’or at the Geneva Film Festival and the International Digital EMMY for fiction.

He was a key part of the team that brought the late Adrian Bunting’s vision of a Brighton Open Air Theatre to life.