[DONE] 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.

ANDREW NEWMAN

Chair of the Television Committee

Andrew Newman started out in television as a runner on The Big Breakfast. He went on to work on some landmark entertainment and comedy shows (mainly landmark in terms of taste and decency) including The Word and Brass Eye. After a stint at the BBC, he developed The Eleven O’Clock Show at the then small indie, talkbackTHAMES and devised the Ali G strand with Sacha Baron Cohen.

In 1998 he became a Channel4 commissioning editor, overseeing programmes including TFI Friday, Da Ali G Show and The Adam and Joe Show. In 2001 he was made the Head of Programmes for the launch of E4 and commissioned shows including Banzai and Big Brother’s Little Brother and put live streaming on television for the first time. After a stint as controller at Five, he returned to Channel4 as Head of Comedy & Entertainment, commissioning shows including The Friday Night Project, 8/10 Cats, Bo Selecta, Peep Show, The IT Crowd, Fonejacker, The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year, Derren Brown, Star Stories, Charlie Brooker’s You Have Been Watching, Alan Carr: Chatty Man, Dead Set and The Inbetweeners and occasionally took time out to write on the Borat and Bruno movies.
He left Channel 4 to become Chief Creative Officer at Objective Productions, makers of Derren Brown, Peep Show, The Cube, The Real Hustle, Star Stories, Undercover Princesses in late 2009. He has been on the BAFTA TV committee since 2007 and the Deputy Chairman since 2009.

JANE LUSH

Deputy Chair of the Television Committee

Jane was a programme maker for many years before becoming the BBC’s Controller of Daytime where she commissioned Weakest Link and Doctors – a stepping stone for countless actors, writers, directors and crews. She left the BBC in 2005 as Controller Entertainment and Comedy responsible for Strictly Come Dancing, Catherine Tate, The Apprentice and Dragons Den. Since then, she has been growing and establishing a new indie, Splash Media.

FOZ ALLAN

Foz Allan is a drama Executive Producer and show creator. He is working with Coney, HutV and Oiffy developing transmedia drama projects. He co-created Robin Hood for the BBC via Tigeraspect Productions. Previously he worked for the BBC where he ran the prime time medical show Casualty for 3 years (Two BAFTA nominations). He was the Exec Producer on Vital Signs, a 6 part Tamsin Outhwaite vehicle for ITV and on Pinchot in Suburbia for BBC/HBO with Derek Jocabi. He created the series Belonging for BBC Wales (BAFTA WALES Best Series 4 years running) and produced Score with Alan Armstrong and Sue Johnston. He has also worked extensively as a director and producer in Theatre and Radio.

NEIL GRANT

Neil joined Mentorn Media in May 2007 after working for the BBC's current affairs and documentary departments for 17 years. He currently runs Mentorn Wales and from London, Executive Produces network programmes in documentaries and specialist factual. Recent commissions have included, Fish town for Sky Atlantic; For Neda for HBO; John Sergeant's on Tracks of Empire for BBC FOUR; The Man Who Can't Stop Hiccupping for BBC ONE; Rolf on Welsh Art, Hidden Houses of Wales and Hotel Stephanie for BBC Wales; Jacques Peretti's Michael Jackson's Last Days, co-exec'ed with Steve Anderson, and Madonna and Child What Really Happened for C4; My Big Fat Cycle Challenge and At Home With The Hattons for Sky and Dangerous Adventures for Boys for Five.

Before joining Mentorn Media he made numerous award-winning and nominated programmes including Hotel BBC ONE, Fighting the War BBC TWO, The Oklahoma Bomber and The Boys That Killed Stephen Lawrence BBC ONE. Other credits include; Soldier, Husband, Daughter, Dad BBC ONE (as Exec Producer), Inside Story BBC ONE, IKEA Drives Me Crazy BBC TWO (as Exec Producer); Sale Fever BBC TWO (as Exec Producer); Grandchild of the Holocaust BBCONE (as Exec Producer); Defence of the Realm BBC ONE, States of Terror BBC ONE; Panorama BBC ONE; Public Eye BBC TWO.

LYNN HORSFORD

Lynn began her career as a casting director for the Royal Court Theatre. She became a script editor and then began producing television drama, winning an EMMY award for Granada Television’s PRIME SUSPECT V and working on other exceptional drama programmes including:

ANY HUMAN HEART, an adaptation of William Boyd’s novel directed by Michael Samuels and starting Matthew Macfadyen, Jim Broadbent, Hayley Attwell and Gillian Anderson (BAFTA Best Drama Serial Winner 2010).

BOY A for Channel 4 and Cuba Pictures Directed by John Crowely and staring Andrew Garfield, and Peter Mullan (Ecumenical Prize at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival. Hitchcock D’Or at the Dinard Film Festival)

THE MARK OF CAIN (Amnesty International Movies That Matter Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, South Bank Show Best Single Drama Award ) was her third collaboration with the writer Tony Marchant, having produced his earlier series SWALLOW and NEVER NEVER.

She produced the BAFTA nominated serial based on William Golding’s trilogy: TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH for the BBC and the recent television adaptation of John Buchan’s THE 39 STEPS starring Rupert Penry-Jones.

Currently Lynn is finishing production on an adaptation of Sebastian Faulk’s novel BIRDSONG for Working Title Television / BBC directed by Philip Martin and starring Eddie Redmayne and Clemence Poesy for transmission early in 2012.

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

Anne Morrison is Director, BBC Academy.

She took up the post in June 2009 to launch this new organisation within the BBC, responsible for all of its training and development.

This post follows on from her role as Project Director of Network Supply Review, the BBC's ambitious plan to grow network TV production dramatically from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland by 2012.

Prior to this Anne was Controller, Documentaries and Contemporary Factual, BBC.

Under her leadership, this factual TV production department made programmes such as the drama-documentary Dunkirk, investigations such as The Secret Policeman and Whistleblower, live events such as The Queen's Jubilee and Live8; launched documentary strands One Life and Mischief; made contemporary factual programmes such as What Not To Wear and relaunched Top Gear.

Anne began her career at the BBC in 1981 as a general trainee and then joined Documentary Features where she directed and produced a range of documentaries.

She also produced Holiday and executive produced Crimewatch and Rough Justice.

Anne was educated in Belfast and Churchill College, Cambridge.

ELAINE PYKE

Elaine Pyke is Head of Drama for Sky1HD, 2 & 3. She has commissioned a variety of stand-out programmes and created the drama strategy which has made Sky a key destination for British drama. After acting for ten years, she built a new career in television starting at the bottom giving out post at the BBC and writing script reports for BBC Fiction lab. She moved to Carlton and subsequently Talkback Thames script editing and developing new scripts. She joined Sky to exec produce Dream Team and Mile High and was promoted to Commissioning Editor in 2005. Her first commission was Terry Pratchett’s The Hogfather building this event franchise further with The Colour of Magic and Going Postal. She followed with Skellig and the successful serials The Take, and Strike Back. Coming soon is thorne; Mad Dogs and the second Martina Cole adaptation The Runaway.

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.

ANDRE SINGER

Singer was awarded his doctorate from Oxford University as an anthropologist specializing in Iran and Afghanistan. He moved into television in the seventies to work on anthropological films. He is the author of four books of non-fiction. His executive experience runs from being Series Editor of Disappearing World, to heading the BBC Documentary Department’s Independent Unit where he was responsible for such series as Pole to Pole, Madness and The Visit. He set up the Fine Cut series (later Storyville) and worked with international filmmakers including Jean Rouch, D.B. Pennebaker, Bob Drew and Fred Wiseman. Under the auspices of his own company, Singer was executive producer on many international series and in 2001 became Senior Vice-President, European Productions for Alliance Atlantis Plc and administered the UK-Canada Trade treaty for their television productions alongside the DCMS. He has worked as producer or executive producer on eight films with Werner Herzog including The Wild Blue Yonder and Into the Abyss. After working with Stephen Fry on HIV & Me, Stephen Fry in America and Last Chance to See, Singer set up Spring Films and is currently co-producing a series with Werner Herzog about Death Row.

Singer is a Vice-President of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Chairman of their Film Committee and Adjunct Research Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern California.

 

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