---
name: "John Jackson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-jackson-1662302"
fi1m_id: "john-jackson-1662302"
imdb_id: "nm1405821"
tmdb_id: 1662302
wikidata_id: "Q19874601"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T16:43:02.682661+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."
---

# John Jackson

## Identity

John Jackson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-jackson-1662302
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-jackson-1662302
- **IMDb ID:** nm1405821
- **TMDB ID:** 1662302
- **Wikidata ID:** Q19874601
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jackson_(writer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19874601, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1405821/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1662302

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Active:** 2013–present
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jackson_(writer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19874601, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1405821/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1662302

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*In the Flesh*](https://film.one/tv/in-the-flesh.md) (78)

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

## 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*.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *In the Flesh* (2013), Fi1m 78, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/in-the-flesh.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *The Gentlemen* (2024), series, Writer
- *Trust* (2018), series, Writer
- *The Five* (2016), series, Writer
- *The Tunnel* (2013), series, Writer
- *In the Flesh* (2013), series, Writer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/in-the-flesh.md)
- *Being Human* (2009), series, Writer
- *Otis* (2008), Associate Producer

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