Originally a journalist, I started in TV on legendary show The Word (C4) and was an integral part of a team who went on to revolutionise - and eventually run the television industry...

I helped originate the format of The Sunday Show (BBC2) where I managed to land a huge exclusive - the first ever TV interview with Prince in over 20 years (whereupon Prince famously refused to speak one word on camera).

 

I was Series Producer of The Best of British (BBC1) celebrating British icons – and where my film on Barbara Windsor was a huge rating smash and acclaimed ‘as one of the best docs of the year’ by The Daily Telegraph.

 

I was Series Producer on Turned on Europe (MTV) - over 50 no-holds-barred short films set among young people in Europe. A genuine TV event, it raised questions in Parliament with its shocking footage of heroin addiction in Eastern Europe and predatory paedophiles in Prague, etc.

 

As Head of Factual Entertainment at Rapido, I made Around the World in 80 Raves (C4). A huge hit, it remains iconic and very influential with its stylised editing, look and killer soundtrack.

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As C4's first ever Commissioning Editor for Factual Entertainment, I created an entire genre of programmes. One of the most notorious was Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster – which exposed the horror and madness of celebrity and earned me huge praise from C4 Controller, Tim Gardam, that I ‘had re-invented the grammar of documentary making’. 

 

Other big critical hits included The Showbiz Set, Sex on TV, award-winning format Make My Day and Bernard’s Bombay Dreams where Bernard Manning flew to Mumbai to perform his racist gags to a bemused Indian audience. 

 

Perhaps the most difficult commission was The Importance of Being Morrissey which generated both worldwide fan hysteria and lawsuits - and ended with a bitter Morrissey writing a song about me called “How Can Anyone Possibly Know I Feel?”.

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In my five years as Creative Director of Shine I generated over £35m of programmes including the BAFTA nominated Story of Light Entertainment (BBC2), The 1970s: That Was The Decade That Was (C5) and Comedy Songs BBC4’s highest rated doc ever.  

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I did Julie Burchill’s first ever film Chavs (SKY1) which broke ratings records for the channel. As well as specialist factual drama-doc Life and Death in Ancient Rome (SKY), The Last Hunt (SKY) and Abi Titmuss: A Modern Day Morality Tale (C4) which explored tabloid fame and selling sex as a career path. 

 

I created the long running Most Annoying series for BBC3 which satirised pop culture. Other youth-orientated shows include The Noughties: Was That It? (BBC3), How to Be Famous (E4), Musicool (C4), Je Suis Un Rock Star (C4), Love Bus (C5) and Gleeful: The Truth about Show Choirs (E4).

 

Remarkably, I'm still plugged into the youth market – recently creating Ex on the Beach (MTV) a reality format turned worldwide hit generating over 600 episodes, spin offs and numerous foreign versions (and which directly influenced the revamp of Love Island).

 

And I am also still creating new international formats – with Celebrity Call Centre (C4)  which has been optioned by 13 countries so far and was recently re-made in the US, Portugal and Belgium…

 

Full List of Job titles:

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• Researcher and Asst Producer, The Word, Planet 24 

• Assistant Producer, The Sunday Show, BBC

• Senior Producer, Passengers, Fuji TV

• Series Producer, Turned on Europe, MTV Europe

• Series Producer, Best of British, BBC Studios

• Head of Factual Entertainment, Rapido

• Commissioning Editor, Factual Entertainment, C4

• Creative Director, Entertainment, Shine

• Creative Director, Carbon

• Head of Factual Entertainment, JA Digital

• Creative Director, Whizz Kid

• Creative Director, Development Central, BBC Studios

• Managing Director, Kerfuffle TV

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Full List of TV show titles:

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• The Word 

• Access All Areas

• The Big Breakfast

• The Sunday Show

• Passengers 

• The Girlie Show

• Space Cadets

• Turned on Europe 

• Select 

• Best of British 

• Queer 2000

• Rage TV

• Japan Weekend

• Comic Relief Jukebox 

• Stags & Hens 

• Around the World In 80 Raves

• Top Ten TV

• Sex On TV

• 100 Greatest TV Treats

• 100 Greatest Sporting Moments

• 100 Greatest Scary Moments

• The Showbiz Set

• Dark Roots: The Ballad of Anna Nicole Smith

• Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster

• Bernard’s Bombay Dream

• 100 Worst Britons

• 100 Greatest Films

• 25 Years of Smash Hits

• The Importance of Being Morrissey

• Our Sam

• When Celebrities Attract...

• Newquay Nights

• Who Are The Beckhams?

• The Posh & Becks Years

• Spend it like...

• Truth About Take That

• 1970s: That Was The Decade That Was

• The Story of Light Entertainment

• Musicool

• Musicool: Six Months On

• Je Suis Un Rock Star

• Mans Work

• Teenage Tourettes Camp

• Terrible Taste of the Great Dictators

• 50 Years of the Queen's Speech

• Sin Cities

• Very Worst...

• The Secret Life of...

• Charles & Camilla: Madly in Love

• Mike Tyson: Laid Bare

• Entertainment Tonight UK

• 100 Greatest Musicals 

• 100 Greatest Funny Moments

• 100 Greatest Sex Symbols

• 100 Greatest Sexy Moments

• 100 Greatest Cartoons

• 100 Greatest Tearjerkers

• Battle of the Boybands

• Britain’s Biggest Mingers

• The World’s Greatest Mingers

• Before They Were Mingers

• After They Were Mingers

• Lucas & Walliams: New Heroes of Comedy

• What Friends Did For Us

• Before they Were Friends

• After They Were Friends

• Newquay Nights

• Michael Portillo: Great British Losers

• Unofficial World Records of Sex

• When Brad Met Angelina

• 50 Years of The Queens Speech

• The Simpsons Quiz

• 100 Greatest Sex Symbols

• Most Annoying People 2006

• Most Annoying People 2007

• Most Annoying People 2008

• Most Annoying TV we hate to love

• Most Annoying Songs we hate to love

• Most Annoying Couples we hate to love

• 101 Most Shocking Moments...

• 101 Most Embarrassing Showbiz Moments

• 101 Best Kept Hollywood Secrets

• The Clothes Show

• Is She Really Going Out With Him?

• Brad & Angelina: A Fatal Attraction

• Chavs

• Julie Burchill on Reality TV

• Julie Burchill on Heat

• Reality TV is good for you

• Abi Titmuss: Modern Day Morality Tale

• Comedy Songs

• The Naked Office 

• The Last Hunt

• Secrets of Suburbia

• Life & Death In Ancient Rome

• The Noughties: Was that it?

• Naked Britain

• Love Bus

• How to Be Famous

• Body Language Secrets

• Grace Dent Meets George RR Martin

• 50 Secrets of Diet & Exercise

• Timeline

• Ex on The Beach

• For Fact’s Sake

• What If?

• Celebrity Call Centre