George Kay

George Kay is an English television writer, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known as the creator of the Netflix series Lupin and Criminal, the Apple TV+ thriller Hijack, and ITV's The Long Shadow. He has also worked on the shows Litvinenko, Stag, My Mad Fat Diary, The Hour, The Tunnel, and the first season of Killing Eve. Whilst a teenage student at Wellington College, Berkshire, Kay met director Jim Field Smith, with whom he often collaborates. Kay began his career in non-scripted entertainment, serving as head of development at Twenty Twenty Television and head of factual at Blast! Films, where he co-created productions such as The Choir, Evacuation, and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Kay became a full-time writer in 2009, after he won the Brit List with his feature script Good Luck Anthony Belcher. He went on to write episodes of The Hour for the BBC, The Tunnel for Sky, and two episodes of the first season of Killing Eve. Whilst writing the script for Litvinenko, Kay had access to transcripts of Alexander Litvinenko's eighteen hours of deathbed interviews with the London Metropolitan Police. Litvinenko's widow, Marina, and the Metropolitan Police supported the production of the series. The show has been sold to over eighty international territories.

Works

Lupin

Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.

Release Date2021-01-08

DepartmentWriting

JobDialogue

Episode Count4

Vote Count2367

Killing Eve

A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.

Release Date2018-04-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count1352

Hijack

When Flight KA29 is hijacked during its seven-hour journey from Dubai to London, Sam Nelson—an accomplished corporate negotiator—tries using his professional skills to save everyone on board. Will this high-risk strategy be his undoing?

Release Date2023-06-28

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count7

Vote Count592

The Long Shadow

Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.

Release Date2023-09-25

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count7

Vote Count56

Criminal: UK

Within the walls of an interrogation room, London investigators question suspects accused of grievous crimes until the truth comes to light.

Release Date2019-09-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count7

Vote Count216

Criminal: Germany

In the interview room, detectives go head-to-head with suspects and try to get to the truth—even if it means breaking the rules and risking it all.

Release Date2019-09-20

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count87

Litvinenko

The story of the determined Scotland Yard Officers who worked to prove who was responsible for the death of Alexander Litvinenko, in one of the most complex and dangerous investigations in the history of the Metropolitan Police.

Release Date2022-12-15

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count28

Criminal: Spain

Psychological games abound between detectives and suspects in a tense interrogation room, where the search for answers sometimes comes at a moral cost.

Release Date2019-09-20

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count90

Stag

Dark comedy about a group of obnoxious friends who struggle to survive the Stag Weekend from hell, as a deer-stalking expedition in the Scottish Highlands quickly turns messier than expected.

Release Date2016-02-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count31

Criminal: France

Secrets emerge and entire cases unravel inside a police interview room in Paris, where suspects and investigators face off in an intricate dance.

Release Date2019-09-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count90

The Wanted Man

The Wanted Man

The series charts the rise and fall of Felix Carmichael, the elusive and powerful head of notorious British crime syndicate 'The Capital.' Untouchable for 20 years, Carmichael is finally apprehended, but while he's held in the infamous Staplehurst prison, it becomes clear that he's been betrayed by one of his own. As the traitor moves to dismantle the empire he has built, Carmichael must risk everything in a daring escape. Willing to stop at nothing to take his revenge, if he succeeds, he'll be a wanted man once more.

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Barbados

David (Michael Sheen) is a middle class guy with middle class problems, despite his lovely home and beautiful middle class wife (Radha Mitchell). His son Gary (Ty Simpkins) is the same, just thirty years younger. Both are looking for a way out from suburbia and all its trappings. One Sunday lunchtime, however, the police come knocking - and David's world suddenly becomes even more claustrophobic.

Release Date2015-09-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Goodbye to the Normals

A short film about a small boy from England telling his parents he's off to America.

Release Date2006-10-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

Trimming the Fat

When a hotel barman discovers a guest is an old school friend he becomes determined that they hang out for the night. As boundaries are crossed it can only be a matter of time before it all ends in tears.

Release Date2008-11-20

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Missing Moscow

A short comedy film which plays with the viewer's perception of immigrants, and the accompanying clash of culture and language, as an English documentary team with a pre-conceived agenda follows a group of Russians living in London.

Release Date2004-01-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

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