SPECIALIST FACTUAL SERIES
| CAPTIVE, (Co-executive Producer) | DR JEFF: ROCKY MOUNTAIN VET (Showrunner) | DARK MATTERS (Original Series Producer) |
| Eight authored, one-hour doc-drama films for Netflix – one of their first major factual commissions – telling the stories of some of the most dramatic hostage crises of recent years. Made by Lightbox (founded by double-Oscar-winning feature-doc producer Simon Chinn) in collaboration with Creative Executive Producer, Doug Liman & Hypnotic. | Creating the format for a 10 hour observational documentary series about a maverick vet in Denver, Colorado who offers pet care to those who would otherwise be unable to afford it. Hit series, recommissioned & series 2 now being made. Animal Planet / Double Act TV | 6 x 1 hr series - True stories from the dark history of science, from head transplants to the real Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Green screen / CGI drama documentary. Discovery Science, UK & international co-producers / Wide-Eyed Entertainment |
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| WHO WAS JESUS? (Series Producer / Writer / Director) | I SHOULDN’T BE ALIVE (Original Series Producer) | ATLAS 4D (Series Editor) |
| 3 x 1hr drama-doc series revealing the reality of life in 1st century Galilee and Judea - where Jesus was born, lived and was executed. Discovery Channel US / Renegade Pictures | 10 x 1 hr high-end drama-documentaries modelled on Touching the Void, telling remarkable, true stories of survival. US hit series with multiple recommissions. Discovery Channel US / Channel 4 / Granada International / Darlow Smithson Productions | 3 x 1hr high budget, landmark series - exploring the geology, anthropology and natural history of some of the world’s most dramatic regions - using extensive state of the art CGI Discovery Channel US / Darlow Smithson Productions / IMG Media-Endemol |
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| TRUE HEROES (Original Series Producer) | ANCIENT SUPERWEAPONS (Series Producer / Director) | SAS: THE REAL STORY – DESERT WAR & COUNTER TERRORISM (Director / Writer / Producer / Lighting Camera) |
| 20 x 30 drama-documentaries about ordinary people who perform extraordinary acts of heroism Discovery Channel US / Darlow Smithson Productions / IMG Media | Three one-hour films reconstructing giant, ancient siege weapons - – The Ram, The Claw & The City Destroyer - and testing them in action - featuring CGI & battle reconstructions. Discovery Channel US / Darlow Smithson Productions | Two films in a four x 1 hr series tracing the secret history of the special forces Regiment with exclusive access to former members & using extensive battle reconstructions. (Also) C4 / Windfall Films |
| RED GOLD – MAGIC TO MEDICINE & BLOOD AND WAR (Director / Writer / Producer) | GROW YOUR GREENS, EAT YOUR GREENS (Director) | EUROPE EXPRESS (Director) |
| Two films in a 4 x 1 hr series on the history of blood in science, commerce and culture, with dramatic recreations of episodes ranging from ancient history to World War Two WNET / C4 / Optomen TV | Cooking and gardening series presented by Sophie Grigson C4 / Wall to Wall TV | Current affairs magazine films on Albanian refugees, Marseilles cités, etc C4 / Diverse / Baraclough Carey |
DRAMA
| THE BIBLE (Series Producer) | SON OF GOD (Co-Producer) | DEAD LINE (Director / Producer) |
| 5 x 2hr series – Dramatisation of The Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. Most watched programme in the USA for all five weeks on History Channel. Record DVD sales. Emmy nominated. Lightworkers Media (Mark Burnett & Roma Downey) / Hearst Coporation / History | 1 x 135 min theatrical release of the New Testament story from The Bible - which grossed over $60 million in its first few weeks. | 30 min Drama based on the poems of Chilean human rights activist Ariel Dorfman. Starring Art Malik, with poems read by Emma Thompson, Juliet Stevenson, Harold Pinter, Bono, etc. C4 / Platinum Films |
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| THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (Rights Producer) | SCHOOLGIRL CHUMS (AFM) | PRIVILEGED (Production Manager) |
| Rights acquisition for landmark BBC One stripped prime time drama serial. BBC One / Darlow Smithson Productions / IMG Media | Tongue-in-cheek drama starring Patsy Kensit and Lala Ward BBC Two | Cinema feature featuring the debut of Hugh Grant The Oxford Film Company |
DEVELOPMENT
| INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LEAD, History and Busines, BBC TV (Rights Producer) | ||
| I spent 2014 leading development of international co-production projects for the History and Business genre in BBC TV’s Factual Production – including major series commissioned by BBC One and Two such as The Celts with ZDF in Germany, Invisible Rome and The Vikings with PBS. |
SINGLE FILMS
SCIENCE AND HISTORY
| THE TAKING OF PRINCE HARRY (Director / Writer / Producer) | SECRET DIARY OF THE HOLOCAUST (Co-Exec Producer / Writer / Director) | PORN ON THE BRAIN (Director / Producer) |
| Feature length counterfactual dramadoc. What would happen if Prince Harry returned to fight in Afghanistan and were captured by the Taliban? Channel 4 / Juniper Communications | Documentary following the journey of the half-sister of a teenager murdered at Auschwitz. She travels to Poland to find out more about the girl she never knew- who kept a diary & has been dubbed the ‘Polish Anne Frank’ BBC One / Darlow Smithson Productions / IMG Media | 1 x 1hr Documentary presented by former Loaded editor Martin Daubney examining the effects of online pornography on teenagers. Including the first ever study to perform fMRI scans on the brains of compulsive users. Lead film in Channel 4’s Real Sex season, autumn 2013. Blink Films / Channel 4 |
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| WE BUILT THIS CITY – NEW YORK (Director / Writer / Producer) | SECRETS OF THE DEAD - THE JAMESTOWN MASSACRE (Director / Writer / Producer) | CANNIBAL - MAN MEAT (Director / Writer / Producer) |
| The visionary feats of engineering which turned Manhattan from marsh to metropolis. For a landmark 3 x 1 hr series shot on High Definition, featuring high-end CGI, and reconstructions. Discovery Channel US / HD Theater / FIVE / Darlow Smithson Productions | A scientific and historical investigation into the extremely high death rate at the first permanent English colony in America C4 / WNET / Optomen TV | Cannibalism in recent history - from modern day Russia, to the Andes air crash; from the Siege of Leningrad to class war in Mao’s China C4 / Discovery TLC / 3bm |
| EQUINOX SPECIAL: SECRETS OF THE PSYCHICS (Director / Writer / Producer) | THE DEEP: TOUCHDOWN (Director / Writer / Producer) | EQUINOX: THE MIRACLE POLICE (Director / Writer / Producer) |
| A sceptical history of psychic phenomena from Spiritualism to spoon bending with period reconstructions C4 / Discovery TLC / Open Media | The secret Cold War battle for control of the oceans by developing deep-submergence technology C4 / Discovery TLC / Oxford Television Company | How the Vatican tries to use science in authenticating the miracles needed to create Catholic saints C4 / Discovery TLC / Ideal World Productions |
| TRAIL OF GUILT - THE ACID HOUSE (Director / Writer / Producer) | J'ACCUSE: THE SUPERCHEFS | |
| Fully dramatised reconstruction of forensic scientists’ work to crack an LSD manufacturing gang in a remote Herefordshire farmhouse BBC One | Paul Bailey’s polemic on the cult of the star chef - with Marcello Magni playing the Superchef in dramatised comedy-sketch inserts C4 / Fulmar TV |
ARTS
| HOWARD GOODALL’S BIG BANGS - THE PIANO (Producer / Director) | YOUNG ELVIS IN COLOUR (Director / Writer / Producer) | THE BEATLES: ALL YOU NEED IS CASH (Director / Writer / Producer) |
| The invention of the most influential of instruments, and its effect on the history of music C4 / NVC Arts / Tiger Aspect Productions BAFTA Award - Best Specialised Series (Huw Weldon award) 2001; Peabody award for Journalism and Mass Communication 2001; Nominated for International Emmy, RTS and other awards. | I hr unauthorised biography with rare colour footage. Highest Rating & Share in 9 pm slot ITV / Darlow Smithson Productions | Unauthorised musical and business history of The Beatles with look-alike reconstructions C4 / Fulcrum Productions |
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| MY NIGHT WITH HANDEL (Director / Writer / Producer) | PLUNDER (Series Producer / Director) | ARENA: REVOLUTIONARY WITH A PAINT BOX (Director / Producer) |
| Dramatised scenes from Handel's operas, showing off some of his finest arias, specially recorded & filmed in modern settings through a night in London USA Cable ACE Award nominee 1996 - Best Performing Arts Programme. BANFF nominee 1997 C4 / Euphoria Films / NVC Arts | 3 x 30 mins - Cultural history & significance of the BUST OF NEFERTITI, PERGAMON ALTAR & VENUS DE MILO presented by Nicholas Ward-Jackson C4 / Brian Lapping Assocs. | 1 hr Profile of the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera |
| ARENA RADIO NIGHT: TUNING IN; ARENA FOOD NIGHT: FASTING AND ABSTINENCE (Director / Producer) | OMNIBUS: PAUL SIMON | OMNIBUS: JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER (Director / Producer) |
| (Glenfiddich Award) BBC Two | Profile of the legendary singer-song-writer filmed at his home in Montauk, Long Island, in the neighbourhood he grew up in with Art Garfunkel and in his office – a whole floor of the Brill Building in New York City. BBC One | Drama-doc about the controversial painter BBC One |
| ARTISTS' JOURNEYS: JIM DINE ON EDVARD MUNCH (Director / Producer) | HOMELANDS: NIGERIA: CHINUA ACHEBE (Director / Writer / Producer) | |
| One of Africa's foremost writers. Novel excerpts performed by local actors on location in Nigeria |
PERFORMANCE
| 4 GOES TO GLYNDEBOURNE (Live Presentation Producer / Director) | VERDI’S REQUIEM with Luciano Pavarotti (Presentation Producer) | ARRIVIDERCI BRUM: (Presentation Producer) |
| 1994 - 1996 Marriage of Figaro, Eugene Onegin, Ermione (RTS nomination), Don Giovanni, The Makropulos Case, Lulu, Theodora (BANFF 1997 Best Performance Special) 1999 Peléas et Melisande C4 / NVC Arts | Performance at the Royal Festival C4 / NVC Arts | Simon Rattle conducts his Birmingham Symphony Orchestra farewell concert C4 / NVC Arts |
MAGAZINE SHOWS
| THE LATE SHOW (Director) | SATURDAY REVIEW (Programme Producer / Studio Director / Film Director) | EUROPE EXPRESS (Director) |
| Various films including a series made by Fulmar TV - THE CRITICS | Numerous one-off films including Patrick Hughes on Arcimboldo, Andy Warhol’s obituary, Choreographer Bejart, Jonathan Meades on Barcelona and many more. Also as-live studio direction including music performance | Current affairs magazine films on Albanian refugees, Marseilles cites, etc C4 / Diverse / Baraclough Carey |
LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT
| PARKINSON(Researcher) | WOGAN(Researcher) | |