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Experience Executive
Producer & Managing DirectorPresent: Freelance Executive Producer and Consultant - BARRISTERS – 3 x 1-hour series for Channel 4 (Tx 2025)
- CENTRE STAGE – In production: 3 x 1-hour series for Sky Arts
- WHAT IF WE WERE WRONG – Development and pre-production
of a 90-minute live TV event
- Consultant
– Caledonia Television - an independant production company based in Glasgow.
2020–2022: Channel Director, 67pallmall.tv & Freelance Executive Producer- Led the creation of a 24/7 global FTA 4K web channel dedicated
to wine
- Established two 4K studios in London’s
Pall Mall and launched the channel within six months (during lockdown)
- Produced 85% of the channel’s programming, delivering over 900 hours in two years
- Executive Producer – Secrets of the Imperial War Museum
(6 x 1-hour) for Channel 5
2012–2020: Managing Director & Executive Producer, Spring Films Ltd.- Oversaw operations for a London-based independent production
company specialising in international co-productions and factual programming
- Executive Producer credits include:
- Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (Apple TV+) – Dir. Werner Herzog & Clive Oppenheimer
- How to Stay Out of Jail (Channel 4) – Dir. Jemma Gander
- PRISON 2 (Channel 4) – Dir. Paddy Wivell
- Indian Space Dreams – RTS Award winning, 90-minute featre documentary.
Dir: Sue Sudbury
- Meeting Gorbachev (A&E/MDR)
– Dir. Werner Herzog & André Singer
- PRISON
(Channel 4) – RTS, Broadcast & Grierson award-winning three-part series, Dir. Paddy Wivell
- Where the Wind Blows – Feature-length documentary, Dir. André
Singer
- Into the Inferno (Netflix) – Emmy-nominated,
Dir. Werner Herzog
- Night Will Fall (BFI/Channel
4/HBO) – Feature-length documentary. RTS, Peabody & Emmy award-winning, Dir. André Singer
- Beyond Bollywood (BBC Four) – Feature-length documentary
- Lonnie Donegan and Me (ITV) – One-hour special
- Tinderbox - Feature documentary, Dir. Gillian Mosely
- Cool Daddio - Feature documentary, Dir. Monika Baran & Imogen Pulter
2010–2024:
Executive Producer & Programme Consultant, Urban Canyons Ltd.Executive
producer: - Samurai 6 x 1
hour, broadcast across Europe and on the Smithsonian Channel (US)
- Warrior Women 8 x 1-hour, Smithsonian Channel
- God’s Soldiers 2 x 1-hour, ZDF
2010–2011: Programme Consultant- Consult for – Pricey Media Ltd., Global Arts, and Alchemiya
2002–2010:
Channel Director & Head of Programming- Oversaw
– History, Bio, Bio HD, History HD, Military History, The Crime & Investigation Network, and Crime & Investigation
HD
- Commissioned - Over 1000+ hours
of Broadcast programmes
- New Channels -
Helped create and launch two new genre channels
- Expanded
operations – From 2 UK digital channels to 7 channels across 3 continents in 5 years
- Increased turnover and profit – By over 300%
- Scaled team – From 26 to 110 staff with <5% annual staff turnover
- Pioneered HD broadcasting – Delivered one of the UK’s
first HD channels for SKY
- Introduced new post-production
technologies – Saving over £500K annually
- Designed
and implimented a company wide programme database – Significantly improved efficiency
- Awarded – Broadcast’s Factual Channel of the Year
(nominated twice more)
1999–2002: Channel Director & Executive Director, Artsworld (now Sky
Arts)- Co-created – Channel
and business plan with Sir Jeremy Isaacs and John Hambley
- Project-managed
– All aspects of the Channel launch and transmission
- Raised
– £6.5 million in equity finance
- Commissioned
– 500+ hours of programming, including documentaries, concerts, and magazine shows
1998–1999: Head of Production, Jeremy Isaacs Productions- Managed all production and operations – Reporting to Sir
Jeremy Isaacs
- Oversaw – Millennium,
a 10-part award-winning series on the history of the last 1000 years
1997–1998: BBC Launch Manager, People+Arts & Animal Planet- Based in – Discovery’s Latin American HQ (Miami)
- Led BBC input and Supervision – Into two BBC/Discovery
joint venture channels under a $600 million contract
1995–1997: Producer & Director, Cold War (CNN)- Produced and directed – 3 episodes of the BAFTA-nominated,
Peabody-winning 24-part series
- Designed
– Operational and editing systems for Jeremy Isaacs Productions
1993–1995: Head of Production & Producer/Director, InCA- Produced and directed – Programmes for BBC and Channel
4, including Equinox, Horizon, and The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
1988–1993:
Managing Director & Producer, Picture House Productions- Specialised in – Music videos and commercials
- Increased revenue – By over 100% year-on-year
1986–1988: Producer, Wood Film The Future of Things Past (2 x 1 hour) Channel 4 Dir: Elizabeth Wood
1985–2005: Managing Director, Heavy PencilA camera and crewing facilities company. - Grew the company – From a £1,500 investment to an asset value
of £500,000
- Achieved – Annual
turnover of £350,000 with a 35% profit margin
Industry Involvement- Member of – BAFTA and the Royal Television Society
- Regular jury member and chair – For major industry awards including the Emmys,
BAFTA and the RTS
Awards
include:- Emmy – Outstanding
Historical Programme
- Grierson – Best
Factual Series
- Broadcast – Best Factual
Series
- Royal Television Society –
Best Factual Series & Best History Documentary
- Peabody
Award (x2) – Best History Documentary
- Silbersalz Science & Media Award
- FOCAL
Awards – Best History Documentary & Best Use of Archive Footage
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