Jed Mercurio

Jed Mercurio was born in Nelson, Lancashire, UK in 1966 but grew up in Cannock, Staffordshire. He graduated from the University of Birmingham Medical School in 1991 and practiced as a hospital doctor for three years. While still a medical student, he joined the Royal Air Force and received flying training with the intention of specializing in aviation medicine. Instead, after replying to an advertisement placed in the British Medical Journal, Mercurio ventured into writing the BBC medical drama Cardiac Arrest (1994) under the pseudonym John MacUre, after which he has continued a writing career under his own name.

Works

Frankenstein

Frankenstein is a 2007 British television film produced by Impossible Pictures for ITV. It was written and directed by Jed Mercurio, adapted from Mary Shelley's original novel to a present-day setting. Dr. Victoria Frankenstein, a female geneticist, accidentally creates a monster while growing her son's clone from stem cells as an organ donor in an effort to prevent his imminent death.

Release Date: 2007-10-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 11

Night of Camp David

A junior U.S. senator comes to believe that the president is mentally unbalanced and sliding into paranoia as he seeks closer ties to the Soviet Union, believes a media cabal is out to get him, and wants to annex Canada.

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Breathtaking

A searing, thought-provoking and poignant account of an NHS doctor in the eye of the storm during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Release Date: 2024-02-19

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 9

Payback

Lexie Noble lives a great life on the outskirts of Edinburgh… until her husband is murdered. As she struggles to make sense of what happened, she learns he had been laundering money for notorious crime boss Cal Morris. As a partner in her late husband's accountancy firm, both Morris and the police will be interested in controlling her next moves.

Release Date: 2023-10-04

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 24

Jed Mercurio Remembers... Cardiac Arrest

Line of Duty writer Jed Mercurio looks back on the first drama he wrote and the start of his extraordinary journey from junior doctor to award-winning TV showrunner. The acclaimed 1994 series 'Cardiac Arrest' featured a cast of then unknown actors, including future Friends star Helen Baxendale, and captured the realities of life working on a hospital ward in 90s Britain. Jed recalls what motivated him to become more than just a series advisor to the point where he ended up taking over script-writer duties; the controversy around the series that saw even the then Health Secretary getting involved, and the real-life stresses he's experienced as a doctor that made their way into the scripts.

Release Date: 2023-09-20

Character: Self

DI Ray

DI Ray is set in Birmingham and follows Leicester-born Rachita Ray, a police officer who takes on a case that forces her to confront a lifelong personal conflict between her British identity and her South Asian heritage.

Release Date: 2022-05-02

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 30

Trigger Point

For London's bomb disposal experts, no day is ever the same as they risk their lives protecting the city from harm.

Release Date: 2022-01-23

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 81

Stephen

Follows the ongoing struggle by Doreen and Neville Lawrence to achieve justice and how a detective, DCI Clive Driscoll - working closely with the Lawrences - puts together an investigation that finally - more than 18 years after his death - secures the convictions of two of the gang who committed the murder of Stephen.

Release Date: 2021-08-30

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 14

Bodyguard

A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.

Release Date: 2018-08-26

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 944

Lady Chatterley's Lover

An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.

Release Date: 2015-09-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 117

Critical

The Major Trauma Centre is a state-of-the-art unit which treats only the most gravely ill or seriously injured. Whether that patient lives or dies is determined by knife-edge decisions and procedures, but can the diverse team of medical professionals knit together and rise to the challenge? Our team hold a life in their hands but in every case they face the agonisingly real fear that it could slip through their fingers.

Release Date: 2015-02-24

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 15

Line of Duty

A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.

Release Date: 2012-06-26

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 36

Vote Count: 423

Strike Back

The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.

Release Date: 2010-05-05

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 347

Bodies

Bodies is an award-winning 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. In December 2009, The Times ranked Bodies in 9th place in its list of "Shows of the Decade". The Guardian has ranked the series among "The Greatest Television Dramas of All-Time".

Release Date: 2004-05-23

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 8

The Legend of the Tamworth Two

Based on a true story, the movie tells the story of two pigs, named Butch and Sundance, who staged a dramatic escape from an abattoir in January 1998 and remained at large for a week ...

Release Date: 2004-04-12

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

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. The show was written by Jed Mercurio, who had trained as a doctor and whose first series, Cardiac Arrest - written under the pseudonym 'John MacUre' - had attracted critical plaudits for its dark portrayal of life in a disintegrating British National Health Service. The filming of the school took place in Salford, Buile Hill High, Hope High and Pendleton College, although the filming of the characters' homes actually took place some 80 miles away in the Dudley area itself; around Parkes Hall Road on the Dudley-Sedgley border.

Release Date: 1999-03-08

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 22

Vote Count: 6

Invasion: Earth

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

Release Date: 1998-05-08

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 14

Cardiac Arrest

This series shows the workings of an English hospital through the eyes of its junior doctors. Naive and idealistic Dr Andrew Collins (Andrew Lancel), soon realises he still has much to learn. His boss, Dr Claire Maitland (Helen Baxendale) on the other hand, has seen it all. She is a competent doctor, with a cynical view, and is ready to work the system when needed, but she and Collins work well together as she guides him through the many minefields of working in the NHS.

Release Date: 1994-04-21

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 4

Nurse Lucy Letby Biopic

Nurse Lucy Letby was jailed for life last year after being convicted of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder six others, all of whom where in her care as a neonatal hospital nurse.

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Question Time

This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience.

Release Date: 1979-09-25

Character: Self - Panellist

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 12