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Derek Wax
Derek Wax is a British television executive producer. His work includes The Rig, The Sixth Commandment, Sex Traffic, Occupation, The Hour, Troy: Fall of a City, Capital, Humans, Lip Service, Tsunami: The Aftermath and From There to Here. He was a producer at Granada TV from 2001 to 2005 and an Executive Producer at Kudos from 2005 to 2017.
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. In 2023 The Rig launched across all Amazon territories, and was renewed for a second series. The Sixth Commandment aired on BBC One in 2023. In 2024 it won the BAFTA and RTS Awards for Best Limited Series and awards for key cast, including BAFTA and International Emmy awards for leading actor for Timothy Spall and RTS award for Supporting Actor for Eanna Hardwicke. In 2023 Amazon announced a new mini series Fear, starring Martin Compston and Anjli Mohindra. The series filmed in Glasgow in 2024 and aired on Prime Video in 2025.
Wax was educated at Manchester Grammar School and graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a degree in English Language and Literature. His brother Kenny Wax is a theatre producer, whose productions include The Play That Goes Wrong and Six the Musical.
His career began in theatre, starting as an assistant director at the Greenwich Theatre and Albery Theatre on a production of Chekhov's Three Sisters. He was a staff director at the Royal National Theatre in 1989 and 1990, before working at a number of London-based theatres where he directed numerous plays, including Ivan Klíma's Games at the Gate Theatre, Patrick's Day at the Battersea Arts Centre, No Remission at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith and The Life of the World to Come at the Almeida Theatre.
His TV career began in 1995 when he moved to BBC Drama Series and Serials as a script editor. He script edited the two-part Minette Walters serial The Ice House and the Stella Tillyard BBC/WGBH mini-series Aristocrats.
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Derek Wax
Derek Wax is a British television executive producer. His work includes The Rig, The Sixth Commandment, Sex Traffic, Occupation, The Hour, Troy: Fall of a City, Capital, Humans, Lip Service, Tsunami: The Aftermath and From There to Here. He was a producer at Granada TV from 2001 to 2005 and an Executive Producer at Kudos from 2005 to 2017.
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. In 2023 The Rig launched across all Amazon territories, and was renewed for a second series. The Sixth Commandment aired on BBC One in 2023. In 2024 it won the BAFTA and RTS Awards for Best Limited Series and awards for key cast, including BAFTA and International Emmy awards for leading actor for Timothy Spall and RTS award for Supporting Actor for Eanna Hardwicke. In 2023 Amazon announced a new mini series Fear, starring Martin Compston and Anjli Mohindra. The series filmed in Glasgow in 2024 and aired on Prime Video in 2025.
Wax was educated at Manchester Grammar School and graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a degree in English Language and Literature. His brother Kenny Wax is a theatre producer, whose productions include The Play That Goes Wrong and Six the Musical.
His career began in theatre, starting as an assistant director at the Greenwich Theatre and Albery Theatre on a production of Chekhov's Three Sisters. He was a staff director at the Royal National Theatre in 1989 and 1990, before working at a number of London-based theatres where he directed numerous plays, including Ivan Klíma's Games at the Gate Theatre, Patrick's Day at the Battersea Arts Centre, No Remission at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith and The Life of the World to Come at the Almeida Theatre.
His TV career began in 1995 when he moved to BBC Drama Series and Serials as a script editor. He script edited the two-part Minette Walters serial The Ice House and the Stella Tillyard BBC/WGBH mini-series Aristocrats.