[3] Jukes' television writing has mainly been in the genre of prime time thrillers or TV detective fiction, with 90-minute or two-hour long stories being broadcast by the BBC.
[6][7] Burn Out, the two-hour first episode of the first season of the Emmy Award winning cold case series Waking the Dead;[8] achieved 8.4m viewers and a 38% share.
As The Spectator magazine explained: "Greg Wise plays the harassed producer trying to put together a drama for which Lenny Henry has provided sheafs of research printouts from the internet – but no script... 'Whose story is this?'
(Lenny Henry's) performance is brilliant" according to Gillian Reynolds in The Daily Telegraph,[24] and according to The Stage:"Jukes' writing is terrific – funny, deep, unafraid to move from the mundane to the reflective.
[30]Following through in these themes of urbanism and city development, Jukes also co-authored, along with Anna Whyatt, Stephen O'Brien and the sociologist Manuel Castells, the monograph Creative Capital: 21st Century Regions.
[35] Shadowing the Conqueror, which transferred to Washington, D.C., was described in The Washington Post as "a depiction of the travels of Alexander the Great (Grimmette) and a contemporary photographer named Mary Ellis (Laura Giannarelli) – based very loosely on the relationship between Alexander and Pyrrho of Elis, a painter who accompanied the warrior on his expedition to the Orient – is most of all a lofty debate between two intensely committed, opposing forces.
Jukes has been a book reviewer[38] and feature writer[39] for both The Independent and the New Statesman[40] on themes including nationalism, art in the computer age,[41] and apocalyptic religion.
[44] Jukes became an active Barack Obama supporter during the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries in the US, writing for Daily Kos and then MyDD when it became a pro-Hillary Clinton site.
[50] According to Eliott Higgins, founder of the open source investigative site Bellingcat, Jukes came up with the name of the new organisation in 2014, inspired by the medieval folk tale of Belling the Cat.