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Jess Brittain is a British television writer. She is best known as a writer for the Channel 4 TV series Skins , and as the creator, producer and writer for the web television thriller series Clique , streamed on BBC Three.

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After her teenage years in Bristol, Brittain studied English literature at the University of Edinburgh. [1] Her first professional experience was writing scripts for the Channel 4 television series Skins, [2] for which she had initially given some informal contributions as a teenager. [3] [4] She also wrote the spin off novel Skins: Summer Holiday. [5] [6]

Subsequently, she created and wrote for the BBC Three thriller Clique. [7]

Brittain is the daughter of Scottish TV writer and Skins co-creator Bryan Elsley. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Sally Newell (January 29, 2016). "BBC Three's new show Clique is billed as Skins for the university age. Bring it on" . The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-06-08.
  2. Kimberly Bond (November 10, 2018). "Creating a show like Clique is "scary" for a female writer – but it's also necessary". Radio Times.
  3. Jess Brittain (March 2, 2017). "'Your uni years are for puking in bushes' … the writer of Skins on her new thriller Clique". The Guardian.
  4. Rich Pelley (May 28, 2019). "How We Made Skins". The Guardian.
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  6. 1 2 Britain, Jess. (2011). Summer holiday. 2. London: Hodder Children's. ISBN   9781444903096. OCLC   743458554.
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