Jordan Barrett is a writer for television drama, young-adult and children’s. He is currently a regular writer for CBBC Drama series The Dumping Ground, as well as writing for CBBC comedy series Andy and the Band. Jordan also wrote all episodes of the third season of spin-off series The Dumping Ground: Survival Files. Jordan has an impressive amount of editorial experience having previously been part of the creative team as series script-editor on The Dumping Ground (six seasons in total), working with all writers commissioned across the seasons, as well as being series script-editor on Andy and the Band, and recent Channel 5 drama series Blindspot and Love Rat.
| Television (as writer): | |
|---|---|
| The Dumping Ground – Season 11 | CBBC / CBBC Drama Writer for the children’s drama series (2023) 1 x 30’ episode / Series Prod: Jane Baxter |
| Andy and the Band – Season 3 | Ninja Pig Productions / Three Arrow Productions / CBBC Writer for season 3 of the hit children’s comedy series 1 x 15’ episode / Exec Prod: Tamsin Skan |
| The Dumping Ground – Season 10 | CBBC / CBBC Drama Writer of the 200th special episode of the milestone tenth season of the children’s drama series (2022) 1 x 30’ episode / Exec Prod: Jane Dauncey/Jonathan Wolfman |
| The Dumping Ground: Survival Files – Season 3 | CBBC / CBBC Drama Writer of all episodes of the live-action children’s drama (2020) 5 x 30’ episodes / Exec Prod: Jonathan Phillips |
| Television (as script-editor/editorial): | |
|---|---|
| Andy and the Band – Season 3 | Ninja Pig Productions / Three Arrow Productions / CBBC Series script editor (2022-2023) Exec Prod: David Hallam, Jon Hancock, Tamsin Skan, Jon Turner |
| Blind Spot | Clapperboard Studios Series script editor 4×60′ – Psychological thriller (2022-2023) Exec Prod: Jonathan Hall |
| Love Rat | Clapperboard Studios / Channel 5 Series script editor 4×45′ – Psychological thriller (2022) Exec Prod: Andy Morgan, Mike Benson |
| The Dumping Ground – Season 10 | CBBC / CBBC Drama Series script editor – 20 x 30’ episodes of the children’s drama series (2021-2022) Exec Prod: Jane Dauncey/Jonathan Wolfman |
| The Dumping Ground – Season 9 | CBBC / CBBC Drama Series script editor – 20 x 30’ episodes of the children’s drama series (2019-2021) Exec Prod: Jonathan Phillips |
| The Dumping Ground – Season 8 | CBBC / CBBC Drama Series script editor – 24 x 30’ episodes of the children’s drama series (2018-2019) Exec Prod: Jonathan Phillips |
| The Dumping Ground – Season 7 | CBBC / CBBC Drama Series script editor – 24 x 30’ episodes of the children’s drama series (2017-2018) Exec Prod: Jonathan Phillips Winner – Best Drama at the RTS North East & Borders Awards |
| The Dumping Ground (Webisodes) | CBBC / CBBC Drama Script-editor – 10 x 4’ episodes of the children’s drama series (2017) Exec Prod: Jonathan Phillips Nominated – Best Short Form Series at BAFTA Children’s |
| The Dumping Ground – Season 6 | CBBC / CBBC Drama Assistant script-editor – 24 x 30’ episodes of the children’s drama series (2017) Exec Prod: Jonathan Phillips Winner – Best Drama at RTS North East & Borders Awards Nominated – Best Drama at BAFTA Children’s |
| The Dumping Ground – Season 5 | CBBC / CBBC Drama Trainee script-editor – 24 x 30’ episodes of the children’s drama series (2016) Exec Prod: Jonathan Phillips |
| Television (production): | |
|---|---|
| Vera – Season 6 | ITV Studios / ITV Drama Assistant Production coordinator – for the prime-time limited drama series (2016) |
| Beowulf | ITV Studios / ITV Drama Assistant Production coordinator – for the prime-time drama series (2016) |
| Inspector George Gently – Season 7 | Company Pictures / BBC Drama Assistant Production coordinator – for the prime-time drama series (2015) |
| Vera – Season 5 | ITV Studios / ITV Drama Production secretary – for the prime-time drama series (2015) |
| Vera – Season 4 | ITV Studios / ITV Drama Production secretary – for the prime-time drama series (2014) |
| Vera – Season 3 | ITV Studios / ITV Drama Production runner – for the prime-time drama series (2013) |