Television Committee

02 July 09

The Television committee is not only involved in the content and presentation of the annual Television Awards and Television Craft Awards (considering categories, chairing juries, providing key editorial advice, recommending Gift of Council awards) but is also involved in producing membership events throughout the year. The committee's credits include some of the very best in British television.

JOHN WILLIS

Chairman

John Willis is Chief Executive of Mentorn Media and Group Creative Director of Tinopolis plc. John started his career at Yorkshire Television where he directed a string of award winning documentaries including Johnny Go Home and Alice - A Fight for Life. In 1988 he moved to Channel 4 as Controller of Factual Programmes before being promoted to Director of Programmes in 1993. During his time at Channel 4 successes included Trainspotting, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Cutting Edge, Father Ted, Big Breakfast and True Stories. After Channel 4 he moved to United Productions as Chief Executive where United made Hornblower, Paul Watson's Wedding in the Family and Alan Bleasdale's Oliver Twist. He represented United on the Boards of both Channel 5 and ITN broadcaster WGBH. He returned to England in 2003 to join the BBC as Director of Factual and Learning programmes which included The Secret Policeman and Planet Earth. He was a member of the BBC Executive Committee. In late 2006 he joined Mentorn, producers of Question Time for the BBC as well as factual drama like The Government Inspector and A Very Social Secretary.

ROY ACKERMAN

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FOZ ALLAN

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KENTON ALLEN

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LYNN HORSFORD

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JANE LUSH

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KRISHNENDU MAJUMDAR

Krishnendu is an award-winning director. He won the John Brabourne Big Five Film Award and a Mental Health in Media Award in 2008. He was nominated for a BAFTA in 2005 for his directing and also as Best Director in the Broadcast Young Talent awards. He has been uniquely trained on both the prestigious BBC Production Trainee scheme and the ITN News Trainee scheme.

At the BBC he worked on a range of output including Watchdog, Newsnight Review, Art That Shook The World and at BBC Films and BBC Radio Drama. At ITN he worked as a producer across all of the output - ITV News, Channel 4 News and Five News.

He is currently developing his first feature film Deep Cut with Andrew Eaton at Revolution Films and also directing a major TV series – Karl Pilkington’s Seven Wonders of the World, Exec Produced by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.

Films produced and directed include: The Happiness Salesman; True Stories: What’s Killing Darcus Howe? (More4 / C4) Bleach, Nip, Tuck: The White Beauty Myth (C4); The World’s Smallest Man and Me (C4); Michael Howard: No More Mr Nasty (BBC2); Coked Up Britain (Sky) and the BAFTA-nominated Who You Callin' A Nigger? (C4).

ANNE MORRISON

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ANDREW NEWMAN

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JULIAN SCOTT

Julian Scott runs Coolabi Productions, a division of Coolabi plc; a public traded company focussing on the ownership and exploitation of high quality intellectual property assets.

Prior to Coolabi Julian ran Zenith Entertainment's children's division where he oversaw over 100 episodes of live action drama series Byker Grove and Out There for CBBC and animation such as King Arthur's Disasters for CiTV. Prior to Zenith, Julian worked in New York for Sesame Workshop, most recently as Group Vice President, European Operations and prior to that as Group Vice President, Creative Development. During this time he was credited with creating the most active development slate in the history of the company and built strategic partnerships and relationships for the Workshop around the world. Before locating to the US, Julian was Head of Production and Operations at Walt Disney Television International in London, overseeing 33 branded productions across the world.

 

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