Tim Kirkby


Timothy John Kirkby is a British filmmaker, working in both the United Kingdom and the United States. He is best known for directing the science parody series Look Around You, the BAFTA winning BBC 2 show Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, and setting up the multi-award winning Fleabag.

Career

Kirkby made his TV directorial debut with the BAFTA nominated science spoof Look Around You. He received further recognition for the first season of the BAFTA nominated My Mad Fat Diary, the BAFTA nominated BBC single drama The C Word, and more recently the critically acclaimed Fleabag.
In the United States he created and directed all eight episodes and co-executive produced the award-winning first & second season of Brockmire for IFC. Other notable US television directing credits includes episodes of the Emmy-winning HBO comedy Veep , Grace & Frankie, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Man Seeking Woman, and his Netflix 6-part TV series The Pentaverate created by Mike Myers, about a secret society that has been working to control world events since 1347.
He has also made documentaries with Motörhead, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest for the multi-award-winning documentary strand Classic Albums, as well as creating and directing all 4 series of the critically acclaimed BAFTA winning show Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle a six-part comedy series featuring standup and sketches. The first season was executive produced by Armando Iannucci and script edited by Chris Morris. The first episode received positive reviews from The Independent and The Daily Mirror, although the show received a negative review, written by Stewart Lee in Time Out, in which he described himself as "fat" and his performance as "positively Neanderthal, suggesting a jungle-dwelling pygmy, struggling to coax notes out of a clarinet that has fallen from a passing aircraft". The second series won a BAFTA for Best Comedy Programme in 2012.
More recently Tim directed The Revenge Club for Gaumont UK, Freemantle & Paramount+, which premiered December 2025.

Filmography

Film
YearTitleDirectorExecutive
Producer		Notes-
2015The C WordTV Movie-
2018Action Point-
2021Last Looks-
2024Bad TidingsTV Movie
???This Godless Place-

Television
YearTitleDirectorExecutive
Producer		Notes
2002, 2005Look Around YouSeries 1 & 2, 14 episodes
2002, 2004, 2005Classic Albums3 episodes
2007Kombat Opera PresentsSeries 1, episode 4
2010Little CrackersSeries 1, episode 10
20124-part serial
2013, 2015The Alternative Comedy ExperienceSeries 1 & 2, 25 episodes
2013My Mad Fat DiarySeries 1, episodes 1, 2, 3
2009, 2011,
2014, 2016		Stewart Lee's Comedy VehicleSeason 1-4, 24 episodes
2013, 2014VeepSeason 2 & 3, 3 episodes
2014Playing HouseSeason 1, 3 episodes
2015You, Me and the ApocalypseSeason 1, 3 episodes
2015Man Seeking WomanSeason 1, 3 episodes
2015Brooklyn Nine-NineSeason 1, 1 episode
2015Grace & FrankieSeason 1, 2 episodes
2017, 2018BrockmireSeries 1 & 2, 8 episodes
2018FleabagPilot/1st episode
2019Don't Forget the DriverSeries 1, 6 episodes
2019 Cult ClassicPilot for SyFy
2022The PentaverateSeries 1, 6 episodes
2023The Famous Five3 episodes
2024EntitledSeries 1, 8 episodes
2025The Revenge ClubSeries 1, 3 episodes

Awards and nominations

Television (as actor)

  • ''Look Around You''