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    RECENT PRODUCTIONS

    Edit Producer " Brendan's Love Cruise"
    Optomen for C4
    Cut 6 episodes of the new C4 tea time camp dating show with Brendan from Coachtrip

    Edit Producer "Only Way is Essexmas"
    Lime Pictures for ITV2
    Cut the third of the TOWIE Christmas specials (NOT the live one).

    Edit Producer "Britan's Best Bakery"
    Shine for ITV1
    Cutting 10 episodes of the brand new cake based cooking series.

    Senior Edit Producer "Geordie Shore: Chaos in Cancun"
    Lime Pictures for MTV
    Running the fine cut suite for the hugely popular MTV reality series

    Edit Producer "Dinner Date (3)"
    Hattrick for ITV1
    Cutting 20 episodes of the award nominated cooking and dating series.

    Series Producer "Coach Trip (8)"
    12 Yard for Channel 4
    Series producer responsible for planning, shooting and cutting series 8 of Channel 4's returning coach based reality series.

    Senior Edit Producer "Geordie Shore"
    Lime Pictures for MTV
    Running the edits and cutting episodes 1 and 5 of the British version of MTV's global reality / documentary smash hit Jersey Shore. THe series has now smashed all MTV records with episode 5 rating 4 times the previous slot highest.

    Edit Producer "Celebrity Coach Trip"
    12 Yard for Channel 4
    Cut 3 episodes of the celeb version of Coachtrip - the journey from hell!

    Edit Producer "Coach Trip" V & VI
    12 Yard for Channel 4
    Edit producer for Series 5 and 6 of Channel 4's hugely entertaining ratings juggernaut.

    Edit Producer "Dinner Date"
    Hat Trick for ITV1
    Cutting 15 episodes of the natural and long awaited follow up to Come Dine With Me.

    Series Producer "Gutted"
    Two Four for UKTV Home
    Second series of the all or nothing home make over show presented by Mark Durden Smith. I also reformatted the 10 part series and the new format has sold to the US.

    Edit Producer "`Design For Life"
    Two Four for BBC2
    Cut episode 3 of BBC2's latest Apprentice style show.

    Producer / Director "Make My Body Younger"
    Two Four for BBC3
    PD'ing 2 episodes of the returning internal organ make over show presented by George Lamb

    Series Producer "Boozed Up Brits Abroad"
    Two Four for Bravo
    18 x 30 & 2 x 60
    Return to the classic ob doc format of following young people having fun around the fleshpots of Eastern Europe.
    Also cut the first 10 episodes.

    Producer / Director "Surviving Midsomer: An Insiders Guide
    Hamma & Glamma for ITV3
    1x60
    Light hearted look at avoiding death in the murder capital of the UK, well, murder capital of the Home Counties.

    Series Producer "Those Were The Days"
    Hamma & Glamma for ITV3
    5 x 60
    Social history series looking at the forgotten stories behind 5 days in recent living memory.I also cut 3 episodes. Narrated by Rupert Penry-Jones

    Series Producer "Stuart Maconie's TV Towns"
    Hamma & Glamma for ITV3
    6 x 60
    Stuart Maconie's brand new series looking at the social history behind interesting and unusual tv locations.Cut 3 episodes.

    Producer / Director "Mousetrapped"
    Hamma & Glamma for ITV3
    1 x 60
    One off documentary putting Chris EIllison (Burnside) into the Mousetrap for one night only.

    Producer / Director "Murder Made Simple"
    Hamma & Glamma for ITV3
    1 x 60
    One off documentary presented by James Fox

    Series Editor "The Garage" Series 2
    Cheetah TV for Discovery NE
    11 x 60
    Second series of the mechanical slanted ob doc based in Marbella.Series 1 was the Discovery Channels highest rating home originated show ever, Series 2 looks set to beat that. In fact, it has with a greater audience share.

    Nominated for Broadcast Award: Best Multi Channel Series of 2006

    Series Producer "Celebrity World Cup Soccer Six"
    Ruggie Media for Sky 1
    2 x 60 & 1 x 430 Live
    Massive celebrity football event, fast turn around studio and live entertainment show. Richard Woolfe's first Sky One show with ratings of over 1 million viewers across 7 hours of Sunday afternoon tv.

    Series Producer "Death by Excess" Oxford Scientific Films for Sky 1
    5 x 60
    CGI based account and reconstruction of the causes of death of many of the worlds true hellraisers. The series that will show for the first time internal reconstructions of the days leading up to the deaths of many of our most popular film and rock stars.

    Series Producer "TV Firsts" Prospect Pictures for UKTV
    1 x 60 (30 x 30' & 15 x 60' interstitials)
    One hour special featuring celebrities talking about the moments in British TV that influenced or changed their lives.

    Series Producer "Boxing Academy" Talkback Thames for C5
    5 x 60
    Gritty ob doc series following 10 young inner city boxers as they enter an intense training camp for a month leading up to a live fight. Mixture of reality and ob doc with 10 challenging and controversial subjects. 2 regional PSC crews and various PD150 operators working to 3 offlines turning round each episode in 5 days.

    Series Producer "Celebrity Penthouse" RDF Media for Sky 1 4 x 60
    New format reality show in which 2 celebrities agree to spend 24 hours in a luxury penthouse. Mixture of PSC and galleried remote cameras with a production crew of around 20. Celebrity pairings include Vanessa Feltz with Stan Collymore, Sam Fox with Victoria Sylvsted and James Hewitt with Jodie Marsh.

    Series Producer "Behaving Badly III" LWT for Sky 1
    8 x 60
    Popular Sunday night series featuring a host of celebrity bad behaviour. Mixture of archive, journalists, pundits and first hand accounts of bad behaviour with dramatic reconstructions and celebrity door stepping. Crew directing.

    Series Producer "Behaving Badly I" LWT for Sky 1
    7 x 60
    Popular Sunday night series featuring a host of celebrity bad behaviour. Mixture of archive, journalists, pundits and first hand accounts of bad behaviour with dramatic reconstructions and celebrity door - stepping.

    Series Editor/Producer "Temptation Island II" LWT for Sky 1
    10 x 60
    Second series of the controversial reality show shot entirely on location in Thailand with a cast and crew of over 120 and a budget of £1 million plus. Post production featuring 10 simultaneous offline edit suites running on unity. Liasing with Fox TV in the US as well as UK Sky execs to ensure format compatibility.


    Edit Producer "House of Tiny Tearaways" Outline Productions for BBC2
    11 x 30
    Re-cutting 11 episodes of the observational problem baby series in 6 weeks.

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    Credits

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    Brendan's Love Cruise - Optomen , United Kingdom
    2013 - Edit Producer
    Cut 6 episodes of the new C4 tea time high seas dating show with Brendan from Coachtrip

    The Only Way is Essexmas - Lime Pictures , Unspecified
    2012 - Edit Producer
    Cutting the third ep of the Towie Christmas specials

    Britain's Best Bakery - Shine , United Kingdom
    2012 - Edit Producer
    Cutting 7 episodes of ITV's soon to be huge bakery challenge series

    Geordie Shore: Chaos in Cancun - Lime Pictures , Unspecified
    2012 - Other
    Senior edit producer on the MTV ratings giant. Episode one of this series has already smashed MTV viewing records.

    Dinner Date  - Hattrick , United Kingdom
    2012 - Edit Producer
    Cutting 20 episodes of the hugely popular and award nominated cooking and dating series

    Coach Trip  - 12 Yard , United Kingdom
    2011 - Series Producer
    Series Producer of Channel 4's returning coach based reality series.

    Geordie Shore - Lime Pictures , United Kingdom
    2011 - Edit Producer
    Running multiple edits and cutting episode 1and 5 of the UK version of MTV global smash hit Jersey Shore.

    Celebrity Coach Trip  - 12 Yard , United Kingdom
    2010 - Edit Producer
    Edit producer on channel 4's celebrity coach based reality show

    Coach Trip  - 12 Yards , Unspecified
    2010 - Edit Producer
    Fine cut edit producer on series 5 and 6 of Channel 4's rating smash.

    Dinner Dates  - Hattrick , United Kingdom
    2010 - Edit Producer
    Cutting 15 episodes of the dating and dining show for ITV1. A bit like Come Dine With Me but with dating thrown in.

    Gutted - Two Four , United Kingdom
    2009 - Series Producer
    Second series of UKTV Homes extreme and slightly radical home and lifestyle clearance series with Mark Durden Smith

    Design For Life  - Two Four , United Kingdom
    2009 - Edit Producer
    Cut episode 3 of BBC2's critically aclaimed Designer slash Apprentice show.

    Make My Body Younger  - Two Four for BBC3 , Unspecified
    2009 - Producer/Director
    I Pd'd and cut 3 episodes of BBC3's medical make over show. A nice mix of presenter, studio and location shooting.

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    Employment History

    Dan Clapton

    Senior Edit Producer "Geordie Shore: Chaos in Cancun"
    Lime Pictures for MTV 
    Running the fine cut suite for MTV's most popular UK show ever.

    Edit Producer "Dinner Date (3)
    Hattrick for ITV1 
    Cutting 20 episodes of the returning foodie dating show.

    Series Producer "Coach Trip" (8)
    12 Yard for Channel 4
    Taking series 8 of the ever popular Channel 4 reality show on the road.

    Senior Edit Producer "Geordie Shore"
    Lime Pictures for MTV
    Cut eps 1 and 5 of the most watched British MTV show in history

    Edit Producer "Celebrity Coach Trip" 
    12 Yard for Channel 4
    Edit producer on the celebrity version of the ratings juggernaut.

    Edit Producer "Coach Trip V and VI
    12 Yard for Channel 4
    Edit producer on two series of the coach based ratings juggernaut.

    Edit Producer "Dinner Date "
    Hattrick for ITV1
    Edit producer on ITV1's daytime dating and food show.

    Series Producer "Gutted"
    Two Four for UKTV Home
    Second series of the radical home and lifestyle makeover show presented by Mark Durden Smith

    P/D  "Make My Body Younger"
    Two Four for BBC3
    P/D and cut 3 episodes of the George Lamb fronted internal makeover show.

    Edit Producer "Design  For Life"
    Two Four for BBC2
    Cutting episode 3 of BBC2's latest Apprentice style show.

    Series Producer "Boozed Up Brits Abroad"
    Two Four for Bravo
    18 x 30 & 2 x 60
    Return to the classic ob doc format of following young people having fun around the fleshpots of Eastern Europe.
    Also cut the first 10 episodes.

    Producer / Director "Surviving Midsomer: An Insiders Guide
    Hamma & Glamma for ITV3
    1x60
    Light hearted look at avoiding death in the murder capital of the UK, well, murder capital of the Home Counties.

    Series Producer "Those Were The Days"
    Hamma & Glamma for ITV3
    5 x 60
    Social history series looking at the forgotten stories behind 5 days in recent living memory.I also cut 3 episodes. Narrated by Rupert Penry-Jones

    Series Producer "Stuart Maconie's TV Towns"
    Hamma & Glamma for ITV3
    6 x 60
    Stuart Maconie's brand new series looking at the social history behind interesting and unusual tv locations.Cut 3 episodes.

    Producer / Director "Mousetrapped"
    Hamma & Glamma for ITV3
    1 x 60
    One off documentary putting Chris EIllison (Burnside) into the Mousetrap for one night only.

    Producer / Director "Murder Made Simple"
    Hamma & Glamma for ITV3
    1 x 60
    One off documentary presented by James Fox

    Series Editor "The Garage" Series 2
    Cheetah TV for Discovery NE
    11 x 60
    Second series of the mechanical slanted ob doc based in Marbella.Series 1 was the Discovery Channels highest rating home originated show ever, Series 2 looks set to beat that. In fact, it has with a greater audience share.

    Nominated for Broadcast Award: Best Multi Channel Series of 2006

    Series Producer "Celebrity World Cup Soccer Six"
    Ruggie Media for Sky 1
    2 x 60 & 1 x 430 Live
    Massive celebrity football event, fast turn around studio and live entertainment show. Richard Woolfe's first Sky One show with ratings of over 1 million viewers across 7 hours of Sunday afternoon tv.

    Series Producer "Death by Excess" Oxford Scientific Films for Sky 1
    5 x 60
    CGI based account and reconstruction of the causes of death of many of the worlds true hellraisers. The series that will show for the first time internal reconstructions of the days leading up to the deaths of many of our most popular film and rock stars.

    Series Producer "TV Firsts" Prospect Pictures for UKTV
    1 x 60 (30 x 30' & 15 x 60' interstitials)
    One hour special featuring celebrities talking about the moments in British TV that influenced or changed their lives.

    Series Producer "Boxing Academy" Talkback Thames for C5
    5 x 60
    Gritty ob doc series following 10 young inner city boxers as they enter an intense training camp for a month leading up to a live fight. Mixture of reality and ob doc with 10 challenging and controversial subjects. 2 regional PSC crews and various PD150 operators working to 3 offlines turning round each episode in 5 days.

    Series Producer "Celebrity Penthouse" RDF Media for Sky 1 4 x 60
    New format reality show in which 2 celebrities agree to spend 24 hours in a luxury penthouse. Mixture of PSC and galleried remote cameras with a production crew of around 20. Celebrity pairings include Vanessa Feltz with Stan Collymore, Sam Fox with Victoria Sylvsted and James Hewitt with Jodie Marsh.

    Series Producer "Behaving Badly III" LWT for Sky 1
    8 x 60
    Popular Sunday night series featuring a host of celebrity bad behaviour. Mixture of archive, journalists, pundits and first hand accounts of bad behaviour with dramatic reconstructions and celebrity door stepping. Crew directing.

    Series Producer "Behaving Badly I" LWT for Sky 1
    7 x 60
    Popular Sunday night series featuring a host of celebrity bad behaviour. Mixture of archive, journalists, pundits and first hand accounts of bad behaviour with dramatic reconstructions and celebrity door - stepping.

    Series Editor/Producer "Temptation Island II" LWT for Sky 1
    10 x 60
    Second series of the controversial reality show shot entirely on location in Thailand with a cast and crew of over 120 and a budget of £1 million plus. Post production featuring 10 simultaneous offline edit suites running on unity. Liasing with Fox TV in the US as well as UK Sky execs to ensure format compatibility.


    Edit Producer "House of Tiny Tearaways" Outline Productions for BBC2
    11 x 30
    Re-cutting 11 episodes of the observational problem baby series in 6 weeks.

    Edit Producer "House of Tiny Tearaways 2" Outline Productions for BBC3
    13 x 33
    Re-cutting 11 episodes of the observational problem baby series.

    Edit Producer "Get a New Life [NZ]" Brighter Pictures for BBC2
    4 x 60
    Hasty edit of final 4 programmes in the relocation series featuring a family moving to New Zealand. 4 Edit suites, 4 shows cut in 3 weeks.

    Producer / Director "ISHTA-Royal Reporter" LWT For ITV1
    1 x 60
    One of the most recent and successful episodes of ITV1's popular archive and pundit show. Featuring a range of royal reporters past and present recounting their favourite anecdotes about the job.

    "The kind of show that will save ITV1" Victor Lewis Smith

    Producer / Director "The Luvvies" LWT for ITV1
    1 x 90
    A 90 minute studio based entertainment show for ITV1 peaktime (sat 9pm) designed around an awards ceremony celebrating the worst of celebrity behaviour and excess. Devising 14 packages/awards. Presented by Rhona Cameron the show featured celebrity guests including Simon Cowell (to collect "Ego of the Year"), Jordan (to collect the "Opening of an Envelope" award) and a rather furious Angus Deayton presented with the "Love Rat of the Year" award on his doorstep. Guest booking, crew directing and formatting.

    Producer "It Shouldn't Happen to a-Soapstar" LWT for ITV1
    1 x 60
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    Additional Information

    Industries

    • TV

    Programme Types

    • Corporate, 
    • Daytime, 
    • DIY, 
    • Documentary, 
    • Docusoap, 
    • Entertainment, 
    • Glamour (Adult), 
    • Music, 
    • Observational Documentary, 
    • Reality TV

    Specialisms

    • Celebrity, 
    • Location Filming, 
    • Popular Culture, 
    • Programme Formatting, 
    • Sex Industry

    Permits

    • USA

    Licenses

    • Basic Driving (PLG)
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