Matthew David Jones (born 5 August 1968) is a British

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screenwriter and television producer, who has worked on a variety of popular drama programmes for several television networks in the UK.https://web.archive.org/web/20050211183036/http://chat.channel4.com/pastchats/pastchat92.html Archived online web chat about ''Love in the 21st Century''

Early work

Matt Jones began his writing career as a columnist for ''

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'' in 1995, before the following year having a novel, ''

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'', printed in

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's range of licensed ''Doctor Who'' tie-in books, the ''

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''. He later wrote '' Beyond the Sun'' for the same series.

Career

His big break in television came in 1999, when he was the

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's controversial drama series '' Queer as Folk'', screened on

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. The same year, he script edited another Channel 4 drama produced by Red, the anthology series ''Love in the 21st Century'', for which he also wrote one episode. The following year he worked as a writer on two series for Granada Television, their popular children's drama ''

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'' and flagship soap opera ''

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'', both aired on the

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network. Returning to Red, in 2000 he script edited the first series of the British Academy Television Award-winning drama ''

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'', and in 2001 he gained his first credit as a producer when he both wrote and produced the one-off drama ''Now You See Her'', starring

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, for the satellite channel Sky One. In 2003 he began working for

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, creating, writing and producing the crime drama ''Serious and Organised'', starring

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and again screened on ITV. Moving up to become an Executive Producer, he worked on another Company series for ITV, the

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-set '' POW''. In 2004 he was an Executive Producer on Company's critically acclaimed drama series '' Shameless'', screened on

, and became the show's producer for the second season in 2005, the year in which the programme won a

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. In April 2005, Jones was announced as one of the writers working on the second season of the

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Early work

Career

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