Jed Mercurio is a British author; TV and film producer and (non practicing) medical doctor

Biography

Jed Mercurio is a British

United Kingdom

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 writer

Writer

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 who also writes under the name John MacUre. He created the television series Cardiac Arrest

Cardiac Arrest (TV series)

Cardiac Arrest is a British medical drama series made by World Productions for BBC One and first broadcast between 1994 and 1996. The series was controversial due to its depiction of doctors, nurses, and the National Health Service.-Creation:...

and Bodies

Bodies (TV series)

Bodies is a BAFTA-nominated British television medical drama produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. Created by Jed Mercurio, the series began in 2004 and is based on his book Bodies. The first series debuted on BBC Three as the channel at this time was trying to break out into hour-long...

and the sci-fi miniseries Invasion: Earth

Invasion: Earth (TV series)

Invasion: Earth is a BBC science fiction TV series. It was made in collaboration with the Sci Fi Channel, and released in 1998 as six fifty minute episodes.-Creation and production:...

(1998). Bodies is based on his novel of the same name and earned him two BAFTA Television Award nominations and two RTS Award

Royal Television Society

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 nominations. He has also written and directed for The Grimleys

The Grimleys

The Grimleys is a nostalgic comedy-drama television series set on a council estate in Dudley, West Midlands, England in the mid-1970s. It was first broadcast by Granada TV for ITV in 1999, following a pilot in 1997, and concluded in 2001 after three series....

(and wrote the pilot episode).

Before turning to writing, Mercurio trained as a doctor at the University of Birmingham.

Works

• Bodies
  Bodies (TV series)
  Bodies is a BAFTA-nominated British television medical drama produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. Created by Jed Mercurio, the series began in 2004 and is based on his book Bodies. The first series debuted on BBC Three as the channel at this time was trying to break out into hour-long...
  
  (2002)
• Ascent
  Ascent (novel)
  Ascent is a novel published in 2007, written by Jed Mercurio. It follows the career of Yevgeni Yeremin, an orphan of Stalingrad, from his days as a MiG-15 pilot in the Korean War, where he becomes a leading ace. However, at the end of the war he crashes in a plane bearing USSR insignia...
  
  (2007)
• American Adulterer
  American Adulterer
  American Adulterer is a 2009 fictional novel written by Jed Mercurio focusing on the life of 35th President of the United States John Fitzgerald Kennedy, it mainly talks about his extramarital affairs, political ambitions, various physical ailments and his relationship with his wife Jackie and his...
  
  (2009)

External links

• Jed Mercurio at the bbc.co.uk
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  Guide to Comedy
• Jed Mercurio interview at BBC Writers Room