---
name: "Kenton Allen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kenton-allen"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "16 June 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-18T07:44:04.665715+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."
---

# Kenton Allen

Producer. Born 16 June 1965 in Stourbridge.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 16 June 1965, Stourbridge
- **Active:** 1998–2005
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 85 (1), 2000s 71 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenton_Allen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6392070, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0020727/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/969992

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The Royle Family*](https://film.one/tv/the-royle-family.md) (85)

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

## Biography

Kenton Allen is a British television producer and executive. He is chief executive of Big Talk Studios, which he has led since 2008, overseeing its growth and sale to ITV Studios in 2013. He began his career in radio before working on Jonathan Ross's Channel 4 chat show and later at Granada Television in Manchester.

Allen produced series of *The Royle Family* (1998–2000) and has credits on numerous comedy and drama series, including *Friday Night Dinner* (2011–2018), *Him & Her* (2010–2012), *Rev.* and *Mum*. His film work includes Martin McDonagh's *Six Shooter* (2004). He holds multiple BAFTA awards for situation comedy and received the Royal Television Society Fellowship in 2019.

He is married to writer Imogen Edwards-Jones.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, rts.org.uk.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Ideal* (2005), Fi1m 71, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/ideal.md)
- *The Royle Family* (1998), Fi1m 85, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-royle-family.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

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

- *Can You Keep a Secret?* (2026), series, Executive Producer
- *Finding Father Christmas* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *Ludwig* (2024), series, Executive Producer
- *Dinner with the Parents* (2024), series, Executive Producer
- *The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin* (2024), series, Executive Producer
- *We Are Not Alone* (2023), Executive Producer
- *The Outlaws* (2021), series, Executive Producer
- *Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Living the Dream* (2017), series, Executive Producer
- *Diana and I* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Houdini & Doyle* (2016), series, Executive Producer
- *Crashing* (2016), series, Executive Producer
- *Youngers* (2013), series, Executive Producer
- *A Young Doctor's Notebook* (2012), series, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Threesome* (2011), series, Executive Producer
- *Free Agents* (2011), series, Executive Producer
- *The Visit* (2007), series, Executive Producer
- *After You've Gone* (2007), series, Executive Producer
- *That Mitchell and Webb Look* (2006), series, Executive Producer
- *I'm with Stupid* (2006), series, Executive Producer
- *Funland* (2005), series, Executive Producer
- *Ideal* (2005), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/ideal.md)
- *According to Bex* (2005), series, Producer
- *Six Shooter* (2004), Producer
- *Hello, Friend* (2003), Producer
- *The Royle Family* (1998), series, Producer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-royle-family.md)
- *The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole*, series, Executive Producer

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