Merry Christmas! is a moving, reimagined version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol for the 21st Century.
Gordon Frank Newman (born 22 May 1947) is an English writer and television producer. In addition to his two earlier series Law & Order and The Nation's Health, each based on his books, he is known for more recent TV series including Judge John Deed and New Street Law. He is also a double BAFTA winner. He wrote and created BBC Radio 4's longest running drama series, 58 plays from his novel, The Corrupted, a fictional ' history' of the crime-business-politics nexus from the 1950s to the bank crash of 2008.