Chris Foggin

The Christmas special

Big Talk’s 2 September 2026 announcement credits Foggin with directing the separate hour-long Christmas episode. Mark Brotherhood writes it, Georgie Fallon produces and Anya Wilson co-produces. Sir David Suchet is among the announced guests joining the returning cast. The story places the central detective at a remote Christmas-themed hotel in Yorkshire, with a blizzard preventing guests from leaving. That is the advertised premise; the announcement does not reveal the solution or establish the hotel’s real filming address.

Lead director of Series 3

The 8 July commission announcement identifies Foggin as lead director for a six-episode, hour-long third series. The September update says that he is also directing Series 3. Readers looking for an individual episode credit should keep that wording precise: a lead-director announcement is not an allocation of every episode. The Series 3 guide will be the place to follow those details once published, while the Christmas guide covers the separate festive programme.

Fisherman’s Friends

Screen Daily’s 17 May 2019 report identifies Fisherman’s Friends as a Chris Foggin film while covering its international sales. It is an earlier directing credit for viewers who want to explore his work before Ludwig, alongside the later Bank of Dave credit named in Sky’s Tinsel Town announcement.

This Is Christmas

Vertigo Films’ 1 December 2022 announcement names Foggin as director of This Is Christmas, written by Alastair Galbraith and produced by Allan Niblo. Its premise follows regular commuters whose routine changes when one passenger suggests a Christmas party. The announced cast includes Alfred Enoch, Kaya Scodelario, Timothy Spall and Joanna Scanlan. That gives a concrete earlier festive film to consider alongside his later Ludwig commission, without suggesting the two stories are connected or that the casting announcement describes his personal directing methods.

The Vertigo synopsis names Enoch’s Adam and Scodelario’s Emma as commuters travelling from Langton to London. Adam begins talking to the strangers who share the carriage and invites them to hold a Christmas party. The premise gives readers a clearer idea of that earlier film than its festive title alone.

Tinsel Town: production and release

Sky’s 3 November 2025 synopsis describes Kiefer Sutherland’s Bradley Mack as a failed Hollywood action star who arrives in a small village to perform in Cinderella. Rebel Wilson plays choreographer Jill, while Katherine Ryan plays Mack’s agent. The announced ensemble also includes Derek Jacobi, Mawaan Rizwan, Maria Friedman, Jason Manford, Asim Chaudhry, Danny Dyer, Ray Fearon, Alice Eve, Lucien Laviscount and James Lance, with Meera Syal as the local production’s director.

Sky’s 7 February 2025 announcement names Foggin as director of Tinsel Town, then filming in the north of England and at Versa Studios in Leeds. Kiefer Sutherland and Rebel Wilson lead the announced cast. The date matters because it identifies a production update, rather than the film’s release. For readers tracing Foggin’s work before Ludwig, the official announcement supplies a dated credit and production context without requiring an inference from an undated list of projects.

Sky’s 3 November 2025 trailer announcement again credits Foggin and schedules the film for Sky Cinema on 5 December 2025. It names Frazer Flintham, Adam Brown and Piers Ashworth as writers, with additional material by Jake Brunger, and identifies Bank of Dave as another Foggin directing credit. The two Sky announcements describe different stages of the same project. Taken together, they give a clearer reading path than assigning a production year to every edition or assuming a trailer date is the original commission.

Where to follow his Ludwig work

As of 24 October 2026, the special and third series are announced projects, so this page links to their guides rather than inventing individual Series 3 episode pages. The Christmas special preview has the cast and current broadcast information. The Series 3 guide separates the confirmed commission from an expected release window, and the making-of guide introduces the wider production team. Those routes let a viewer follow Foggin’s published Ludwig credits while keeping the future murder cases unspoilt.