Toby
Haynes

Toby is currently directing the new series of Utopia, written by Gillian Flynn for Amazon Studios. He most recently directed James Graham's Brexit, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, and the Emmy winning episode of Black Mirror Series 4: USS Callister. Prior to this Toby directed and exec produced all seven parts of an adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, for Cuba Pictures and BBC1. Prior to that he directed the opener of the BBC's reworking of The Musketeers.

Toby directed the audacious finale to series Sherlock Series 2: The Reichenbach Fall, which was the third most watched TV programme of the decade and ignited a media frenzy around Sherlock’s apparent death plunge. In his review of the episode Andrew Billen of The Times wrote, "This detective story so transcended its genre, it should be considered alongside British TV drama’s highest achievements." 

Toby also opened the first series of the hit BBC 3 show Being Human, starring Russell Tovey, Aidan Turner and Leonora Crichlow. The series won the Broadcast Award for Best New Programme.

Further credits include Wallander Series 3 starring Kenneth Branagh and Five Days II for BBC1 starring Suranne Jones and David Morrissey. Toby has directed multiple episodes of Doctor Who including the series 5 finale The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang, which won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form), followed by the one-off special A Christmas Carol starring Michael Gambon and the opening to series 6 The Impossible Astronaut and The Day of the Moon.

Toby is a graduate of The National Film & Television School.