George Kay is an English screenwriter.[1] He wrote and co-created the international Netflix series Criminal and Lupin, and the Apple TV+ thriller Hijack, starring Idris Elba,[2] as well as writing and executive-producing the 2022 television series Litvinenko. He has also worked on the shows Stag, My Mad Fat Diary, The Hour, The Tunnel, and the first season of Killing Eve.[3][4]
Whilst a teenage student at Wellington College, Berkshire, Kay met director Jim Field Smith, with whom he often collaborates.[5]
Whilst writing the script for Litvinenko, Kay had access to transcripts of Alexander Litvinenko's eighteen hours of deathbed interviews with the Metropolitan Police.[6] Litvinenko's widow, Marina, and the Metropolitan Police supported the production of the series.[7] The show has been sold to over eighty international territories.[8]