Biography
John Jackson is an English television screenwriter. After leaving Cambridge University he developed and script-edited the ITV soap Night and Day, for which he wrote 35 episodes.
His credits include episodes of Robin Hood (2009), Lip Service (2010–2012), Being Human (2011–2013) and its spin-off Becoming Human, In the Flesh (2014), The Five (2016), Grantchester (2016–2022), The Tunnel (2017), Trust (2018), Riviera (2020, lead writer on season 3), A Town Called Malice (2023), No Escape (2023) and The Gentlemen (2024). He received a Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for Best TV Drama Series for his work on Being Human.
In 2023 it was announced that he would be lead writer on the television adaptation of Rivers of London.
