About Jeff Povey

Jeff Povey is a Scottish screenwriter and author, best known for his extensive work in British television.

After his two-man play Tidy, Povey started writing television since the early 1990s, with Stay Lucky. He has written multiple episodes of long running continuing dramas, such as Casualty, its spinoff Holby City, and EastEnders,.

Other television series, covering a wide array of genres, he wrote for include children's drama The Dumping Ground, action-adventures Hooten and the Lady and The Musketeers, and crime series such as Silent Witness, Kingdom and Midsomer Murders.[8] In 2002, he directed the short film Blowing It.