---
name: "Jamie Brittain"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jamie-brittain"
fi1m_id: "jamie-brittain"
imdb_id: "nm2355808"
tmdb_id: 1221044
wikidata_id: "Q2471151"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "14 August 1985"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:06:40.952702+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jamie Brittain

## Identity

Jamie Brittain

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jamie-brittain
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jamie-brittain
- **IMDb ID:** nm2355808
- **TMDB ID:** 1221044
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2471151
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Brittain, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2471151, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2355808/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1221044

Writer. Born 14 August 1985 in Edinburgh.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 14 August 1985, Edinburgh
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Brittain, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2471151, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2355808/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1221044

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Skins*](https://film.one/tv/skins.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Jamie Brittain

> Jamie Brittain’s work on *Skins* is funny, abrasive and sympathetic to teenagers without requiring them to behave. We recommend the company, though the predictable plotting leaves the cast doing more than their share.

In *Skins* (2007), Bristol A-level students move between college and parties, with sex and drugs taking up plenty of their attention. Jamie Brittain and fellow creator Bryan Elsley do not make good behaviour a condition of our interest. We enjoyed their company more than we expected, because the abrasive dialogue makes even their aggravating behaviour funny. The sympathy survives their misbehaviour, and that matters in a programme so keen to shock. We recommend it to those who enjoy noisy teenage comedy-drama, with a warning that the talk is often better than the story.

Brittain favours collaborative writers’ rooms, so there is little sense in assigning every sharp line or predictable turn to him alone. But the shared approach has a weakness: sometimes these teenagers seem chosen from a stock list and sent towards difficulties we can see coming. The sex and drug use become tiring when the programme treats them as enough to hold our attention. At those points, the cast have to make us care about what happens, and the writing is fortunate to have them.

The later television credits suggest an interest in how people behave together that is not confined to adolescence. He contributed an episode to the romantic anthology *Dates* (2013), then served as writer, adviser and associate producer on the virtual-reality thriller *Kiss Me First* (2018). Writing episodes of *Breeders* (2020) brought him to a comedy-drama about being a parent, a change of subject from the students whose behaviour first gave us reason to watch his work.

The more substantial change came in 2023, when he became lead writer on an open-world title at Maverick Games. His preference for design-led collaboration makes the move less surprising than it first sounds. A writer accustomed to sharing decisions has a useful starting point there, though a larger space will not by itself make characters less familiar. Start with *Skins*, provided an aggravating group of teenagers sounds like company rather than an ordeal.

## Biography

Jamie Brittain is a Scottish television writer and creator. He was born on 14 August 1985 in Edinburgh and studied English Literature at King's College London before leaving to collaborate on television projects.

With his father, Bryan Elsley, he co-created the E4 series *Skins* (2007–2013), on which he also served as writer and, for some series, executive producer. He wrote episodes across multiple generations of the show and briefly left in 2011 before returning for the final series.

Brittain has written episodes of *Dates* (2013) and *Breeders* (2020), and contributed as writer and adviser to *Kiss Me First* (2018).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, theguardian.com, rockpapershotgun.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Skins* (2007), Fi1m 72, Creator, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/skins.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Breeders* (2020), series, Writer
- *Kiss Me First* (2018), series, Associate Producer
- *Skins: Rise* (2013), Writer
- *Dates* (2013), series, Writer
- *Skins* (2011), series, Story, Creator
- *Skins* (2007), series, as DJ Flangmeister · Writer, Creator — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/skins.md)

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