About Me

Derren Litten was born in 1970 in the northern fishing town of Hull; thankfully things have improved greatly since then. Graduating from The Central School of Speech and Drama in 1993 he quickly became a regular face on numerous television shows and countless TV commercials.   In 2002 Derren’s best friend from drama school, Catherine Tate, asked him to write for her Edinburgh sketch show. Although he had never written comedy before it was thought he would be the best man for the job as he often said hilarious things and would do it for nothing. Although Catherine knew people funnier than Derren, thankfully none of them could beat his rates. 
When Catherine was offered her own TV series on BBC2 Derren became a main writer; he also performed in the show as they remembered at the last minute that he is rather marvellous at acting too. 
In 2005 Derren was nominated for a BAFTA Craft Award in the “New Writer” category. After two series and a Christmas Special pulling in record viewers, Derren decided it was time to concentrate on his own projects and turned down the offer to be involved in a third series. 
Derren’s first project after The Catherine Tate Show was commissioned by Paul Jackson on the strength of two scripts with no cast at that time attached. Benidorm proved a huge hit with ITV audiences and has gone from strength to strength, switching from half hour to an hour long format in series 3.  Now in it's fifth series  the show has won 2 National Television Awards and a Royal Television Society Award.  Derren has recently been commissioned to write and Exec-Produce the sixth series.

Derren’s latest show, The Spa, is a comedy set in a Herfordshire Health Club and will be broadcast on Sky Living in Spring 2013. As well as having created and written the show Derren is also starring in it along with Rebecca Front, Frances Barber, Debbie Chazen, Tim Healy, Cheryl Fergison and Niky Wardley.