Derek Wax
Wax started his career working in London-based theatres before moving to the BBC to work in television production. He was an Executive Producer at Kudos from 2005 to 2017. He left Kudos to launch his new label Wild Mercury Productions in 2017.
Wax's first major work came as a producer of the BAFTA-nominated drama Flesh and Blood for BBC2 in 2002. This was followed by the Channel 4 series Sex Traffic, which won a number of BAFTA awards including Best Serial, also the RTS award for Best Mini Series, and the Prix Italia.
His first role as an executive producer came on the BBC and HBO mini-series, Tsunami: The Aftermath. In 2009, he produced the BAFTA and Prix Europa-winning BBC mini-series, Occupation. Since then he has been executive producer on the Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated The Hour.
In 2015, Wax was executive producer of the BBC miniseries Capital. Between 2014 and 2018, he was executive producer of three seasons of AMC and Channel 4 series Humans. In 2020 he was announced as executive producer of the Amazon original series The Rig, and of mini series The Sixth Commandment for BBC One.
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