---
name: "Daran Little"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/daran-little"
fi1m_id: "daran-little"
imdb_id: "nm1280161"
tmdb_id: 1215246
wikidata_id: "Q5222089"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "11 May 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T15:32:09.122692+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Daran Little

## Identity

Daran Little

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/daran-little
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** daran-little
- **IMDb ID:** nm1280161
- **TMDB ID:** 1215246
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5222089
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daran_Little, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5222089, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1280161/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1215246

Writer. Born 11 May 1966.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 11 May 1966
- **Active:** 1960–2010
- **Also known as:** Daran Arthur Peter Little
- **Frequently works with:** [Afia Nkrumah](https://film.one/person/afia-nkrumah.md), [Alan Wareing](https://film.one/person/alan-wareing.md), [Audrey Cooke](https://film.one/person/audrey-cooke.md), [Charles Sturridge](https://film.one/person/charles-sturridge.md), [Clive Arnold](https://film.one/person/clive-arnold.md), [Gerald Blake](https://film.one/person/gerald-blake.md), [Gill Wilkinson](https://film.one/person/gill-wilkinson.md), [Graeme Harper](https://film.one/person/graeme-harper.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 74 (1), 1980s 70 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daran_Little, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5222089, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1280161/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1215246

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Coronation Street*](https://film.one/tv/coronation-street.md) (74), [*EastEnders*](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Daran Little is a British television writer. He studied film and television production at Manchester Polytechnic, where he wrote a dissertation on *Coronation Street*. After graduating, he joined Granada Television in 1989 as the show's official archivist before moving into storylining and scriptwriting.

Little wrote 104 episodes of *Coronation Street* between 2000 and 2010. He created characters including Todd Grimshaw, the soap's first gay character, as well as Sean Tully, Archie Shuttleworth and Bev Unwin. He also created, wrote and produced the 20-part series *Hollyoaks: In the City* (2006) and worked as a writer on the American soap *All My Children*.

In 2010 Little joined the writing team on *EastEnders*, where he has contributed over 200 episodes. He wrote the BAFTA-winning single drama *The Road to Coronation Street* (2010), which dramatised the creation of the original series. He has also written eleven books about *Coronation Street* and co-wrote Betty Driver's autobiography.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, coronationstreet.fandom.com, unitedagents.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *EastEnders* (1985), Fi1m 70, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)
- *Coronation Street* (1960), Fi1m 74, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/coronation-street.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *East Street* (2010), Writer
- *The Road to Coronation Street* (2010), Writer
- *EastEnders* (1985), series, Writer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)
- *All My Children* (1970), series, Writer
- *Coronation Street* (1960), series, Writer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/coronation-street.md)

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