Biography
Michael Wearing was a British television producer who worked extensively on BBC drama productions. He studied anthropology at Durham University and began his career in the theatre before joining the BBC's English Regions Drama department in Birmingham in 1976 as a script editor.
He is best known for producing the acclaimed series Boys from the Blackstuff (1982) and Edge of Darkness (1985). Wearing later became Head of Serials at the BBC, overseeing productions including Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Our Friends in the North (1996). He also served as producer on the 2010 feature film adaptation of Edge of Darkness.
Wearing received the BAFTA Alan Clarke Award in 1997 and the Royal Television Society's Cyril Bennett Judges Award in 1998. He died in 2017.
