Cameron McAllister

Writer

Biography

After Producing and Exec Producing multiple prime-time drama series for ITV and Sky including PRIMEVAL, DAYLIGHT ROBBERY, JERICHO, FORGOTTEN and DREAM TEAM, Cameron became a full-time scriptwriter in 2008. Since then he has written across a variety of prime-time and critically acclaimed series both in the UK and US including CAPTIVATED, SPOOKS CODE 9, CRUSOE and NEW TRICKS. CAPTIVATED was launched on Netflix in December 2025 and went straight to No 1 with 60 million views. 

For the last eight years he has also been a core writer on ITV’s CORONATION STREET, as well as writing two middle-grade children’s novels for Penguin Random House. 

Credits

In Development

Production Company Notes
UNTITLED STEPHEN KNIGHT PROJECT
2025
Kudos Knight / BBC

Writers’ Room from 10/2024 to 11/2025

Television

Production Company Notes
CAPTIVATED (TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE)
2025
Story Films / Channel 5

Four-part psychological thriller broadcast on Channel 5 in 2024; episodes 1, 3 and 4.
Launched on Netflix in December 2025 and went straight to No 1 with 60 million views.

CORONATION STREET
2017 – 2025
ITV Studios

Core writer

EMMERDALE
2009 – 2017
ITV Studios

Core writer

HOLBY CITY
2009
BBC Studios

Series 11 Episode 50; “The Cost of Loving”

NEW TRICKS
2009
BBC Studios

Series 6 Episode 7; “Blood is Thicker Than Water”

PRIMEVAL
2006 – 2009
ITV Studios

Writer and Exec Producer / Producer on this ITV prime-time action / adventure series

CRUSOE
2008
Power / NBC

NBC’s adaptation of Robinson Crusoe; Episode 8, “Heroes and Villains”

SPOOKS: CODE 9
2008
Kudos / BBC

Spooks spy spin-off; Episode 5

JERICHO
2005
ITV Studios

Producer, four-part period detective series starring Robert Lindsay

DAYLIGHT ROBBERY
1999 – 2002
ITV

Co-creator, Writer, and Producer on 2 series of this ITV action thriller about a group of desperate mums who rob banks

FORGOTTEN
1999
ITV

Producer, three-part acclaimed thriller starring Amanda Burton & Paul McGann

DREAM TEAM
1997
Sky

Producer and Co-creator of Sky’s long-running drama series set in the world of a fictitious Premiership Football Club

Cameron McAllister
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