Nev Fountain

Nev Fountain
Born Steven John Fountain
Unknown
Stamford
Occupation Writer

Nev Fountain, born Steven John Fountain, is an English writer, best known for his comedy work with writing partner Tom Jamieson on the radio and television programme Dead Ringers.[1]

A native of Stamford, Fountain attended the University of Warwick. While working at a series of odd jobs in London, Fountain wrote a few fringe plays, including one called My Grandmother Is a Time Lord, produced in 1995. In the same year, he began writing sketches for the radio programme Week Ending. It was while working on Week Ending that he met Tom Jamieson, with whom he has written most of his subsequent radio and television work.

Fountain and Jamieson contributed to many radio and television comedy programmes, including Have I Got News for You, 2DTV, The News Quiz, Loose Ends and Big Impression. Their most notable work, however, has been for Dead Ringers in which Fountain occasionally makes cameo appearances. The pair are also responsible for the historical comedy Elephants to Catch Eels and wrote "Txt Mssg Rcvd", a 2005 episode of the BBC Three anthology series Twisted Tales.

Fountain is also a staff writer on Private Eye magazine.[2]

Fountain is a fan of Doctor Who, and has contributed to several audio dramas based on the programme. His first licensed Doctor Who work was as script editor on the webcast Death Comes to Time. He has also written several Doctor Who audio plays for Big Finish Productions, including Omega, The Kingmaker, and Peri and the Piscon Paradox. In addition, he wrote the narration script for the DVD documentary "The Last Chance Saloon" about the casting of Sylvester McCoy in the role in 1987. He appears occasionally as a host or MC at Doctor Who conventions.

Fountain is also a novelist, and has written three humorous detective books and one serious thriller. The detective books, collectively titled 'The Mervyn Stone Mysteries' were published by Big Finish in 2010 and recount the exploits of an ex-script editor of science fiction television series called 'Vixens from the Void'. Mervyn Stone encounters murders wherever he goes, whether it be a sci-fi convention (Geek Tragedy), the recording of a DVD commentary (DVD Extras Include: Murder) or the revival of the aforesaid television series (Cursed Among Sequels).

The serious thriller is called 'Painkiller', published by Sphere, and recounts the story of Monica Wood, a woman suffering from chronic neuropathic pain who discovers her own suicide note in a drawer - but she cannot remember writing it.

Books

Mervyn Stone Mysteries

Painkiller (Thriller) published by Sphere (2016)

Audio

Doctor Who

Bernice Summerfield

Vienna

The Confessions of Dorian Gray

Dark Shadows

The Mervyn Stone Mysteries

References

  1. ↑ "Interview: Nev Fountain, writer of new BBC Three comedy". BBC. 12 January 2005. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
  2. ↑ http://unitedagents.co.uk/tom-jamieson-and-nev-fountain
  3. ↑ http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-widow-s-assassin-864
  4. ↑ http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-new-adventures-of-bernice-summerfield-1039
  5. ↑ http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/series-one-box-set-932
  6. ↑ http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-immortal-game-915
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