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Paul is the only screenwriter/novelist he knows who has handled a major conspiracy trial at the Old Bailey, had an advertising slogan in neon across Piccadilly Circus, been nominated for a Best Comedy BAFTA and been sacked as an extra on his own hit show for mouthing everybody else’s lines.
He created the long-running BBC comedies May to December (6 seasons - BAFTA nomination best comedy), So Haunt Me (3 seasons - best Jewish-mother-ghost comedy) and My Hero (6 seasons - best residuals). All shown in US and over 40 countries.
His acclaimed, semi-autobiographical ITV drama Losing It, starring Martin Clunes as an adman with testicular cancer, was shortlisted for several Best Writing Awards and used to train family therapists and MacMillan nurses.
In the US Paul co-created the Annie-nominated DreamWorks Animation/Fox series Neighbors From Hell, starring Patton Oswalt, with Steve Coogan as Satan. Now showing on Prime.
For BBC Radio 4, Paul has written four original plays and adapted several novels. The latter include the Chief Inspector Dover Casebooks, starring Kenneth Cranham, CS Forester’s London Noir Trilogy with Greg Wise and The African Queen with Toby Jones and Samantha Bond. All available on Audible. He also created the successful Radio 4 comedy series Snap, which ran for three seasons and is now a favourite for insomniacs who listen to BBC Radio 4 Extra at 3.00 in the morning.
Paul has written five novels and three collections of shorter fiction for adults and four novels for middle grade children.
He scripts all his novels and four have been Finalists in the prestigious Screencraft Script Contests in LA. His comic novel Must Have GSOH was the only UK Finalist in the 2023 Screencraft Cinematic Book Contest and was optioned with script by Fred Films.
His much repeated BBC radio script A Meeting in Seville, about a fractious middle-aged couple who return to where they honeymooned exactly thirty years earlier and meet their younger honeymooning selves there became an optioned movie script and later a novel Seville (to be republished October 2025).
Paul’s first novel In The Matter of Isabel, (The Book Guild 2017) (‘a wonderfully funny and touching comic debut’ The Independent) was inspired by a case he handled as a young lawyer. It was optioned alongside his script by LA producer Elizabeth (Official Secrets) Fowler and the script of his most recent adult novel The Forever Moment made the 2023 Filmarket Hub top 30.
Paul is currently writing The Henry Jaffa Trilogy for children (9+) The first volume Henry the Half-Time Hero (Book Guild 2024) tells of a lad whose dad is a superhero but whose mum isn’t, so he only has powers spasmodically and he never knows which ones or for how long. (‘Surprises and humour abound’ The Independent) The sequel Henry Jaffa and the League of Not Really Very Super Heroes (June 2025) shows how he teams up with other similar hybrids. The final adventure The League of Not Really Very Super Heroes Saves The World will be out in 2026.
Paul’s grandad went to school with Stan Laurel, so hopefully something rubbed off.
Paul A. Mendelson