Toby Haynes
Episodes Broadcast: 2010-2011
Toby Haynes was a longtime Doctor Who fan who trained at the
National Film and Television School. He graduated in 2003, and his
television debut came the following year on an episode of Coming
Up. Haynes was soon working steadily, making ten installments of
MI High alongside shows like Spooks: Code 9 and Being
Human. He then became the first director to be responsible for three
consecutive Doctor Who stories -- albeit only in broadcast, not
production, order. All three starred Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor,
and included the 2010 season finale, the same year's Christmas special,
and lastly the 2011 season premiere. Doctor Who showrunner Steven
Moffat then hired Haynes for his other show, Sherlock, where he
directed 2012's critically-acclaimed The Reichenbach Fall.
Haynes' other work during the early part of the decade included Five
Days, Wallander and The Musketeers. Having established
his telefantasy bonafides, he was handed the reins for all seven
episodes of the lavish 2015 adaptation of Susanna Clarke's Jonathan
Strange & Mr Norrell, on which he was also an executive producer. In
2017, Haynes directed an installment of Black Mirror which served
as an homage to Star Trek. His first project during the Twenties
was as a director and executive producer on the American version of the
science-fiction series Utopia. Sticking with genre programming,
Haynes next became the lead director of the Star Wars spin-off
Andor.
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