Duncan Foster
Directing
Biography
Duncan Foster is a veteran British television director with more than 25 years in the industry and over 500 episodes of continuing drama to his name. He began his career on the Yorkshire magazine show Tonight in the late 1990s before moving into drama directing. Foster has been a core director on Emmerdale since 2001 and Coronation Street since 2002. He has become particularly associated with Emmerdale’s major stunt sequences, directing some of the show’s most high-profile set-pieces, including the King’s River house explosion, the Woolpack siege, the Hotten Bypass crash, and serial killer Meena Jutla's stunt week featuring the maze fire and waterfall disaster. He also helmed Coronation Street: Out of Africa (2018) and the 2026 crossover special Corriedale. Beyond his long-running ITV soap work, Foster has directed episodes of EastEnders, Hollyoaks, The Royal, World’s End, Benidorm, The Dumping Ground, and Casualty.
Known For
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
Casualty
The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs, lies, deceit, laughter and tears, it's all there in the village.
Emmerdale
The daily soap that follows the loves, lives and misdemeanours of a group of people living in the Chester village of Hollyoaks where anything could, and frequently does, happen...
Hollyoaks
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
The Royal
Coronation Street: Out of Africa is a 2008 spin-off film featuring locals from the British soap opera Coronation Street, who visit the luxury resort of Sun City, South Africa. Cilla Battersby-Brown, the mother from hell, brought her son and other "son" over to Africa to win a competition for $500,000
Coronation Street: Out of Africa
Corriedale behind the scenes fun, exclusive interviews and a few surprises along the way.