John Ridley (Writer)
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Works
Rush
They are trained to be smarter, tactically superior and technologically advantaged - Melbourne's answer for a cutting edge trend in policing worldwide. Rush was an Australian television police drama that first screened on Network Ten in September 2008. Set in Melbourne, Victoria, it focuses on the members of a Police Tactical Response team. It is produced by John Edwards and Southern Star. On 10 November 2011, as with Network Ten setting out DVD promotions for the finale of season 4, David Knox of TV Tonight has announced that Rush would not return after 4 years, as the next episode would be its last.
Release Date2008-09-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Prosecutor
Episode Count2
Vote Count13
Stingers
Stingers brings to light the life and work of an undercover police unit located in Melbourne. This dangerous work requires complete dedication, one slip can cost an operative their life.
Release Date1998-09-29
Charactersd Det. Snr. Sgt. Eric Chatterly / Det. Milano
Episode Count22
Vote Count5
Diana & Me
Australian Diana Spencer wins a competition in a women's magazine, and as a prize gets a trip for two to London, where she wants to meet her idol and namesake, Princess Diana. She goes there with her fiance, Mark, but during the garden party the Princess plans to attend, things get mixed up and Aussie Diana gets arrested with Paparazzi photographer Rob. Diana really wants to meet the Princess and follows Rob as he searches for Princess Di to take some photos.
Release Date1997-12-04
Charactersd Paparazzo #1
Vote Count4
Wentworth
Bea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her husband and must learn how life works in prison. A modern adaptation and sequel of the iconic Prisoner series.
Release Date2013-05-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count281
Rescue: Special Ops
Rescue: Special Ops is an Australian television drama series that first screened on the Nine Network in 2009. Filmed in and around Sydney, the program is produced by Southern Star Group with the assistance of Screen Australia and the New South Wales Government. This drama series focuses on a team of experienced professional paramedics who specialise in rescue operations. It premiered on Sunday 2 August 2009, and the season finale of the first season aired on Sunday 25 October. A second season screened from 28 June 2010. The third and final season consisting of 22 episodes screened from 30 May 2011. The Nine Network has confirmed it will not be renewing Rescue Special Ops for a fourth season.
Release Date2009-08-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count10
Vote Count12
Sea Patrol
Sea Patrol is an Australian television drama set on board HMAS Hammersley, a fictional patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy. The series focuses on the ship and the lives of its crew members.
Release Date2007-07-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count15
Vote Count25
Nowhere Boys
Four teenage boys get lost in the forest and discover, when they return home, that they are in an alternate world identical to theirs except for one startling difference - they were never born.
Release Date2013-11-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count72
Wanted
Two complete strangers, Lola and Chelsea, intervene in a fatal carjacking while waiting at a suburban bus stop, and are subsequently thrust into a chase from authorities across Australia with a vehicle filled with cash. The strangers must rely solely on each other while on the run.
Release Date2016-02-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count7
Vote Count75
Black Water: Abyss
An adventure-loving couple convince their friends to explore a remote, uncharted cave system in the forests of Northern Australia. With a tropical storm approaching, they abseil into the mouth of the cave, but when the caves start to flood, tensions rise as oxygen levels fall and the friends find themselves trapped. Unknown to them, the storm has also brought in a pack of dangerous and hungry crocodiles.
Release Date2020-07-09
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count456
Platinum
Two brothers try to handle all the problems of running a hip-hop/rap record label in New York
Release Date2003-04-14
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count6
Guerrilla
Set against the backdrop of one of the most explosive times in U.K. history, discover the story of a politically active couple whose relationship and values are tested when they liberate a political prisoner and form a radical underground cell in 1970s London.
Release Date2017-04-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count19
Canal Road
Canal Road is an Australian television drama series on the Nine Network. The series was produced in-house, under producer Susan Bower, in collaboration with writers Sarah Smith, John Ridley and Dave Warner, and directed by Kevin Carlin. It was filmed at Channel Nine’s GTV Studio 11 and on location in and around Melbourne. The series reportedly cost A$10 million to produce. The 13-part series went to air from 16 April 2008. The series debuted to mixed critical reception and only average ratings, which were further eroded when the series was moved to a later timeslot. Nine removed Canal Road from its schedules after the seventh episode, which drew in only 360,000 viewers; however the eighth episode was still made available online. Nine aired the remaining episodes during August and December 2008. Canal Road was released on DVD on 4 August 2008 in Australia.
Release Date2008-04-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count3
Reef Doctors
Running the remote Hope Island Clinic, Sam Stewart is an accomplished doctor, who with her team, looks after the residents of all the neighbouring islands, as well as the holidaymakers and thrill seekers who visit the area. Not only a GP, Sam is a single mother with a free spirit and a determination – who has an unusual hobby: venom.
Release Date2013-06-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
The Strip
The Strip is an Australian television drama series that screened on the Nine Network. The series premiered on the Nine Network at 8:30pm on 4 September 2008 but was moved to a later 10:30pm timeslot from 13 November 2008. The show did not return for a second season, due to disappointing ratings. The Strip was released on DVD on 4 July 2009.
Release Date2008-09-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
High Country
When detective Andrea 'Andie' Whitford is transferred to the Victorian High Country, she is thrust into a baffling mystery of five missing persons who have vanished into the wilderness. Through an edge-of-the-seat, high-stakes investigation, Andie uncovers a complex web involving murder, deceit and revenge.
Release Date2024-03-19
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count8
Vote Count15
Those Who Walk in Darkness
Hip-hop star Lil' Kim voices main character Soledad in this urban anime action film, about a police officer living in futuristic Los Angeles -- a place that is now home to citizens with incredible genetic structures. With these super genes, the people of the city now have powers that make them shockingly superior to all other human beings. It's up to Soledad to join a special task force to take on the mighty creatures.
Release Date2003-08-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Bite Club
After surviving a shark attack, homicide detectives Dan Cooper and Zoe Rawlings join forces to hunt the ultimate predator - a serial killer who is also hunting them. Not only are they survivors but also ex-lovers. Exceptional at what they do, together they're a force like no other. Zoe is happy in a new relationship, but after three years away Dan knows Zoe was the one he let go and wants her back. Will Dan and Zoe be able to work together to hunt down the serial killer or will they become the killer's next victims?
Release Date2018-08-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count8
Vote Count10
Hungry Ghosts
When a tomb in Vietnam is accidentally opened on the eve of the Hungry Ghost Festival, a vengeful spirit is unleashed, bringing the dead with him. As these spirits wreak havoc across the Vietnamese-Australian community in Melbourne, reclaiming lost loves and exacting revenge, young woman May Le must rediscover her true heritage and accept her destiny to help bring balance to a community still traumatized by war.
Release Date2020-08-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count8
Wild Boys
Wild Boys is an Australian television period drama series that began airing on the Seven Network on 4 September 2011. It is produced by Julie McGauran and Sarah Smith from Southern Star and John Holmes. The series is set in and around the fictional town of Hopetoun and principally filmed in Wilberforce on the Hawkesbury, Nelson, and Glenworth Valley on the New South Wales Central Coast.The series premiered in the UK on TCM UK on 3 March 2013. The series was not renewed after the first season of 13 episodes.
Release Date2011-09-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count7
Dripping in Chocolate
When Detective Bennett O'Mara finds a chocolate wrapper on a strangled girl, it leads him to enigmatic chocolatier Juliana Lovece. Just as this perceptive woman gets under his hardened skin, he suspects she may be at the centre of an increasing murder count.
Release Date2012-04-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count6