Jamie Rix

Jamie Rix (born 27 April 1958) is an English children's author, television comedy writer, and media producer. He is best known for the book series Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids and The War Diaries of Alistair Fury; both were adapted into award-winning children's television programmes. Career Rix studied Drama and English at the University of Kent, and worked as an assistant stage manager at Royal Court Theatre to learn how to direct plays. On holiday in France, he created a white lie story, The Spaghetti Man, in order to make his four-year-old son eat his dinner. It was about a little boy who refused to behave at the kitchen table and is kidnapped by an invisible force, that takes him to a factory to turn him into lasagne. Rix took note of how the lie had made his four-year-old eat all of his meals without hesitations, which would inspire a series that could scare children into behaving themselves. An unspecified time later, Rix was hired by the BBC to write and produce comedy, such as Radio Active, The Michael Bentine Show, The Wow Show, and The History of Rock for BBC Radio 4, and, for television, Alas Smith and Jones. The Spaghetti Man would be included in Rix debut book Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, which was published in 1990 by André Deutsch. Its popularity led to a Smarties Prize Children's Choice Award and three sequels: Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids (1992), Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids (1996), and More Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids (2001), followed by a revived book series in 2007, now named Grizzly Tales: Cautionary Tales for Lovers of Squeam!. These were later adapted into two award-winning television animation series. He has written many books for many age groups, such as Johnny Casanova - the Unstoppable Sex Machine for older readers, and The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury, originally called The War Diaries of Alistair Fury, an account of an eleven-year-old boy desperate for revenge on his older brother and sister. This series includes (in order): Bugs on the Brain, Dead Dad Dog, Kiss of Death, Tough Turkey, Summer Helliday Exam Fever. The series was adapted into a successful CBBC series, which won a BAFTA in 2008. Little Brother Productions In 1994, Rix founded a production company with Nigel Planer, at the time named Elephant Productions.