What makes an audience watch something and care about the characters is the emotional life of the characters. Jed Mercurio Read Quote
Line Of Duty’ is first and foremost a thriller. But I hope it will also be seen as a revisionist commentary on 21st century policing. Jed Mercurio Read Quote
The success of ‘Bodyguard’ is a tribute to the magnetism of our two leads, Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes. Jed Mercurio Read Quote
I think that the general public understands that its own doctors are human, fallible, and flawed. Jed Mercurio Read Quote
The world is a horrible place, but no one worries because we have all been pacified by anodyne television in which incorruptible cops solve crimes, crusading lawyers keep the innocent out of prison, and streetwise social workers rescue children from abuse. Jed Mercurio Read Quote
In ‘Bodies,’ we had a lot of gore because other medical dramas at the time had these hospitals where even a drop of blood seemed to be too much, which is clearly not what it’s like when you cut someone up. Jed Mercurio Read Quote
I think you’ve got to be careful with gore. Different genres need different things. Jed Mercurio Read Quote
Nowadays, you can’t broadcast dodgy special effects and then put up a caption saying, ‘Sorry, this is what the budget was.’ You have to do it with high production values because the audience has been spoilt by the special effects on things like ‘The X Files’ and ‘Independence Day.’ Jed Mercurio Read Quote
Special effects are becoming more and more affordable and looking more and more like the real thing. Jed Mercurio Read Quote
Certain people in politics and the press felt there was a political spin to ‘Cardiac Arrest,’ but there was no political agenda to what I was doing. Jed Mercurio Read Quote
