Matt Jones (writer)

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Matthew Jones
Born (1968-08-05) 5 August 1968 (age 55)
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, television producer

Matthew David Jones (born 5 August 1968) is a British television screenwriter and television producer, who has worked on a variety of popular drama programmes for several television networks in the UK.[1][2]

Early work

Matt Jones began his writing career as a columnist for

Beyond the Sun
for the same series.

Career

His big break in television came in 1999, when he was the

Queer as Folk, screened on Channel 4
. The same year, he script edited another Channel 4 drama produced by Red, the anthology series Love in the 21st Century, for which he also wrote one episode.

The following year he worked as a writer on two series for

British Academy Television Award-winning drama Clocking Off, and in 2001 he gained his first credit as a producer when he both wrote and produced the one-off drama Now You See Her, starring Amanda Holden, for the satellite channel Sky One
.

In 2003 he began working for

Shameless, screened on Channel 4, and became the show's producer for the second season in 2005, the year in which the programme won a British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series
.

In April 2005, Jones was announced as one of the writers working on the second season of the BBC revival of hugely popular science-fiction series Doctor Who, fulfilling a childhood ambition to work on the programme of which he had long been a fan. His episodes, a two-parter with the titles "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit", were broadcast on 3 and 10 June 2006.[3]

Jones also wrote the seventh episode of the second series of Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood, called "Dead Man Walking".

In 2012 Jones wrote the second episode of the BBC Four TV series Dirk Gently based on the novels by Douglas Adams. in 2017, he contributed episodes to Stan Lee's Lucky Man, and in 2020, to legal drama The Split.

References

  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20050211182735/http://chat.channel4.com/pastchats/pastchat47.html Archived online web chat about Queer as Folk
  2. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20050211183036/http://chat.channel4.com/pastchats/pastchat92.html Archived online web chat about Love in the 21st Century
  3. ^ "The Impossible Planet: Fact File". BBC. Retrieved 24 March 2012.

External links

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