About me: Over 20 years experience of production management across entertainment, scripted comedy, live events, documentary, factual, reality, fact ent, childrens, archive, magic and daytime on award-winning shows, including helping set up brand-new Viceland TV channels in the UK and Europe and overseeing all original content in the UK and France from scratch in 6 months, setting up all production and business management sysems for Viceland and Vice Studios in the UK. Also management of a 16-suite post-production facility and helping to grow companies to multi-million pound turnovers.
25 years experience.
Genre: Childrens, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Factual Entertainment, Light Entertainment, Magazine Programmes, Multi camera Studio, Observational Documentary, Online Content, Outside Broadcasts, Reality
Additional skills: 4K, Archive, Covid Supervisor, EP Budgeting, EP Scheduling, Extreme Filming Geographical, Extreme Filming Political, File Based Formats, First Aid, Health And Safety, Negotiating a contract with a broadcaster, Underwater Filming
Other skills: Extensive experience includes as VP Production for Vice UK, where I helped launch TV channels in the UK and Europe, advised on and set up financial and management systems , negotiated deals with internal and external stakeholders and was responsible for establishing business plans and overseeing all original TV content creation for Vice Studios UK. Prior to that I was Director of Production at Objective Productions for over 10 years, overseeing numerous award-winning entertainment, comedy , scripted and fact ent shows including Peep Show, Fresh Meat, The Cube, Derren Brown - including negotiating with broadcasters in the UK, USA and Europe, budgeting, hiring strategies in the UK, Europe and USA, advising on best practice etc etc = all aspects of production. COVID-19 Supervisor qualified and experienced.
Overseas experience in: China, France, Panama, Portugal, Spain, United States of America.
Languages: Fluent written and spoken French, Basic conversational German
Credits
I’M A CELEBRITY GET ME OUT OF HERE s20 + s21
Production company: ITV/Lifted Entertainment; On-screen credit: Production Manager (Covid/Community/Welfare); Programme type: Light Entertainment, Multi camera Studio, Reality; Broadcaster: ITV1, ITV2, ITV Hub.
Covid PM on tentpole live and as-live Entertainment series shot on location in North Wales. Responsibilities included devising, writing and helping implement over a dozen Covid protocols for the main show as well as post-production and ITV Hub companion show, supervision of Covid testing regimes for over 450 crew and cast, welfare support and acting as point of contact for local community and government agencies.
UNCLE VANYA
Production company: Angelica Films; On-screen credit: Production Executive; Programme type: Drama, Feature Films; Broadcaster: BBC2.
Production supervision of feature-length film of theatrical production of ’Uncle Vanya’ for international cinema distribution and UK tx on BBC, under Covid conditions and 10 days’ prep.
EE BRITISH ACADEMY FILM AWARDS 2020
Production company: Whizz Kid Entertainment; On-screen credit: Head of Production; Programme type: Outside Broadcasts; Broadcaster: BBC1.
Supporting production team on 1 x 120min as-live event from the Royal Albert Hall.
CELEBRITY EX ON THE BEACH s1
Production company: Whizz Kid Entertainment; On-screen credit: Head of Production; Programme type: Reality; Broadcaster: MTV/MTVInternational.
Overall supervision of 15 x 60mins hit ratings series for MTV International/MTV UK. Including budget negotiation, location contracting, supplier deals, cast care and general support and advice for production team as well as 1 month overseas location filming with fixed rig cams and PSC crews.
DERREN BROWN : SACRIFICE
Production company: Vaudeville Productions; On-screen credit: Executive in Charge of Production; Programme type: Factual Entertainment; Broadcaster: Netflix.
1 x 60mins Special shot in UK and USA.
HATE THY NEIGHBOUR
Production company: Vice Studios; On-screen credit: VP Production; Programme type: Factual Entertainment; Broadcaster: Viceland.
6x60mins series shot in the UK, Europe and USA
PEEP SHOW
Production company: Objective Productions; On-screen credit: Head of Production; Programme type: Comedy; Broadcaster: C4.
HOP on this landmark scripted comedy series for Channel 4 2005-2015.
THE CUBE
Production company: Objective Productions; On-screen credit: Head of Production; Programme type: Multi camera Studio; Broadcaster: ITV.
9 Series of award-winning physical game show for ITV1
BREAKING MAGIC
Production company: Objective Productions; On-screen credit: Head of Production; Programme type: LE; Broadcaster: Discovery.
2 series for Discovery and Discovery US
FRESH MEAT
Production company: Objective Productions; On-screen credit: Head of Production; Programme type: Comedy; Broadcaster: C4.
4 series of award-winning scripted comedy
DERREN BROWN APOCALYPSE
Production company: Objective Productions; On-screen credit: Head of Production; Programme type: LE; Broadcaster: C4.
4 x 60mins for C4
SECRET PRINCES
Production company: Objective Productions US / Kalel; On-screen credit: Executive in Charge of Production; Programme type: LE; Broadcaster: TLC.
2 series of reality show shot and edited in the USA
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