John Jackson is an English television screenwriter.

Life and career

After leaving

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, John Jackson developed and script edited the ITV soap Night and Day. Altogether he wrote 35 episodes for the TV Series. In 2009 he wrote the episode ''The King Is Dead, Long Live the King…'' for the

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series

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. From 2010 to 2012 he wrote two episodes of the serial drama Lip Service. From 2011 until 2013 he wrote three episodes for the supernatural drama Being Human. This brought him a

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award for Best TV Drama Series. He also wrote two episodes for the ''Being Human'' spin off Becoming Human. In 2014 Jackson wrote an episode for another

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series, In the Flesh. He would become a regular writer on ITV's ''

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'', and in 2020, was lead writer on season 3 of Sky's ''Riviera''. On 2 November 2023, it was announced that Jackson would be lead writer on the television adaptation of ''

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''.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Awards

Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award: * 2012: Best TV Drama Series ('' Being Human'')

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jackson, John Living people Year of birth missing (living people) English television producers English television writers English screenwriters English male screenwriters English male television writers 21st-century English screenwriters 21st-century English male writers