P/D with 20 years experience of docs & factual entertainment for UK and international broadcasters.
2011, Edit Producer, Dispatches, Outline, Channel 4
Prime time, fast-turnaround international investigation.
2011, Edit Producer, Jamie's Great Britain, Fresh One, Channel 4
One-hour prime time, factual entertainment show with Jamie Oliver.
2011, P/D, Pushy & Proud: Botox Mums, Outline, Sky Living
One-hour, fast-turnaround documentary. TX 3 Oct. EP Laura Mansfield.
2011, Series Director, Cineflix, Design Dealers, Sky Atlantic & Sky One
First factual entertainment series on Sky Atlantic. 8 x 1 hour. TX Jan 2012.
2011, Edit Producer, WAG TV, How Do They Do It?, Discovery
Delivering 20 x 30 mins science series for US and UK. EP: Martin Durkin.
2010 Edit Producer, The House That Made Me, Nutopia, Channel Four
1-hour primetime doc: Jamelia revisits her reconstructed childhood home.
2010 P/D Come Dine With Me, ITV Productions, Channel Four
One-hour primetime New Year show in Wakefield for hit series.
2010 P/D, Working Lives; Human Trafficking, BBC World
PD of investigation into Mexican human trafficking cartels & Edit Producer of Kenyan child sex tourism documentary (nominated for World's Best Investigative Documentary 2010 by Association of International Broadcasters
Secret Millionaire - RDF , United Kingdom
2010 - Producer/Director
Prime time, hour-long doc for hit Channel 4 series. Jahan Abedi goes undercover with Leicester's asylum seekers (2.5million viewers)
World's Strictest Parents - Twenty Twenty , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2009 - Producer/Director
2 x 60 BBC 1 docs about wayward British teenagers staying with stern families in Atlanta and Beirut.
My Brilliant Britain - Prospect Pictures , United Kingdom
2009 - Producer/Director
2 x 30 docs for new BBC channel launch: Kelvin Mackenzie trains to be a stand-up comedian and Goldie learns how to cook for his manservant
Election - Diverse , United Kingdom
2008 - Producer/Director
5 x 30 BBC1 new factual entertainment programmes with Jonathan Dimbleby and Angellica Bell. Teen version of The Apprentice in which the winner gets to meet the Prime Minister.
Love Trap - Windfall Films Ltd , United Kingdom
2007 - Producer/Director
4 x 60 global experiment for Channel Four. Real-life romcom combining observational documentary, reality and drama with contributors from Africa, Australia, Germany, Italy and the UK. 20 hidden cameras, multiple location-based tests and over 2,500 hours of footage. Covert Producer on progs 1 and 2. Overall PD on programmes 3 and 4.
River Cottage Treatment - - , United Kingdom
2006 - Director
1 x 60 Channel 4 doc with chef/farmer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Five takeaway addicts try to change their habits during a stay at River Cottage.
Inventing Histories - - , United Kingdom
2006 - Producer/Director
3 x 30 docs for hit Discovery Europe technology series.I ran shoots across Scandinavia and mainland Europe, scripted these entirely presenter-led shows and directed the main location shoots for the series as a whole. Comm. Ed. Susie Worster
Industrial Revelations - - , United Kingdom
2005 - Producer/Director
3 x 30 presenter-led science docs for Discovery Europe. Scripted these entirely presenter-led shows on the history of flight, mills and Alpine railways. Ran shoots in seven countries.
Facing The Music - BBC , United Kingdom
2004 - Producer/Director
2 x 60 documentaries for BBC1 & BBC2 with Fame Academy's Carrie & David Grant.
Cosmopolitan - Endemol , United Kingdom
2003 - Producer/Director
1 x 90-min, prime time Channel 5 documentary to mark Cosmopolitan Magazine's 30th anniversary.
Straight Dates by Gay Mates - - , United Kingdom
2003 - Producer/Director
1 x 60 entertainment programme for Living. Established two untried presenters in a new format, which sold around the world.
Hercules - Radar TV , United Kingdom
2003 - Producer/Director
4 x 60 reality show for BBC3 by the makers of Banzai.
Animal Park - Endemol , United Kingdom
2002 - Producer
26 x 60 minute hit BBC1 and BBC2 series. Ran the location team at Longleat House.
Diet Another Day - Brighter Pictures , United Kingdom
2002 - Director
1 x 30 Channel 4 doc. Also Location Director on the other 3 x 30 episodes.
Chefs in the City - - , United Kingdom
2001 - Producer/Director
10 x 30 comedy/factual entertainment show shot in New York for Living.
- - BBC , United Kingdom
2000 - Producer/Director
Ran large teams and made various series for BBC 2 Learning Zone, BBC Knowledge (now BBC4) and BBC presentations to Downing Street.
TV's Greatest Hits - BBC , United Kingdom
1999 - Location Director
Gaby Roslin's location reports for prime time BBC1 entertainment series.
The Osmonds Are Back - - , United Kingdom
1999 - Director
1 x 60 prime time documentary for Channel 5 shot in US and UK.
Cool Cymru (Scrutiny) - BBC , United Kingdom
1998 - Producer/Director
1 x 30 observational documentary for BBC2.
Out of Africa (Scrutiny) - BBC , United Kingdom
1998 - Producer/Director
1 x 40 BBC 2 documentary shot in in Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda.
My Ex - - , United Kingdom
1998 - Producer/Director
3 x 30 prime time observational docs for Channel Five
The Feelgood Factor - Wall to Wall , United Kingdom
1997 - Producer/Director
2 x 30 Channel 4 docs with Mark Little.
Pet Rescue - Endemol , United Kingdom
1997 - Director
Hit Channel 4 series
The Agenda - Wall to Wall , United Kingdom
1996 - Director
Comedy reports with Simon Hoggart and David Stafford.
ManMade News - - , United Kingdom
1996 - Director
Comedy sketches with Dom Joly, Rhona Cameron, Kevin Day, Sean Meo, Felix Dexter and Sean Lock.
Moving Pictures - - , United Kingdom
1995 - Director
Directed international reports for award-winning BBC2 cinema magazine show and worked on series as AP.
Talking Xs - - , United Kingdom
1995 - Producer/Director
Six shorts for BBC2
Picasso & The Dealers - BBC , United Kingdom
1994 - Producer/Director
20 minute BBC2 doc shot on film in New York and Paris.
"A fascinating insight into the commercial side of art."
(A.N. Wilson, Evening Standard)
BBC Design Awards - Architecture Update - BBC , United Kingdom
1994 - Director
Ten-minute BBC2 documentary about the shortlisted buildings, using celebrities and members of the public to put them to the test.
John Noakes - The Final Challenge - BBC , United Kingdom
1993 - Director
BBC 2 tribute to John Noakes, in which the veteran presenter scales a building to award a fifteen-foot high image of Shep with a giant Blue Peter badge.
Off The Wall - BBC , United Kingdom
1993 - Director
Two shorts for BBC2 prime time arts series about an art exhibition in Newcatle's Byker Estate presented by Muriel Grey.
Edinburgh Nights - BBC , United Kingdom
1993 - Director
Films with Garrison Keillor, Angelo Abela and the Reduced Shakespeare Company for this award-winning BBC2 arts and entertainment series.
English Express - BBC , United Kingdom
1992 - Director
20-minute drama for BBC2's award-winning children's strand.
Selected Press Reviews
"This trip through the more hellish parts of East Africa is compelling television. It told me more than Children in Need ever has about the aid abyss that is Africa."
(JOHN DIAMOND, Sunday Telegraph, of "Scrutiny - Out of Africa", BBC2)
"This is Blind Date updated for the modern age, and way more entertaining." (Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, of "Love Trap")
"A breathtakingly sad film"
(CHARLES JENNINGS, Observer of "Scrutiny: Cool Cymru?")
"A fun, fizzy profile of an ageing sensation."
(EMMA PERRY, Time Out of The Osmonds Are Back...))
"A fascinating insight into the commercial side of art."
(A.N. WILSON, Evening Standard of Picasso & The Dealers)
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