Speakers
Acting Head of Drama, Channel 4
Luke Alkin recently joined Channel 4 as Acting Head of Drama working closely with Tessa Ross. The department commissions from a wide range of independent producers and recent drama output at that channel has included Skins, Britz and Boy A. Since taking... more
Executive Producer, DCD Media/Box TV
One of the more experienced of producers working in television, Adrian started his career in the cutting rooms but after four years trapped inside smoked filled rooms he decided to try and get some fresh air on the other side of the camera as an assistant... more
Exective Producer, Livity
In 2001 Sam Conniff and Michelle Clothier formed Livity, where they developed a shared vision for a company delivering social marketing to the public and private sectors. Livity's clients include Department for Education and Skills, Talk To Frank, Sony... more
Series Producer, Skins, a production of Company Pictures and Stormdog Films
Chris began his career as a researcher at Granada and quickly moved on to directing documentaries and studio shows. From there, he moved across to drama and directed the opening episode of Brookside, early episodes of Eastenders and a variety of other... more
Executive Producer, Livity
In 2001 Sam Conniff and Michelle Clothier formed Livity, where they developed a shared vision for a company delivering social marketing to the public and private sectors. Livity's clients include Department for Education and Skills, Talk To Frank, Sony... more
Director of Creative Content, Dangerous Films
Richard is Director of Creative Content at Dangerous Films, one of the UK's leading independent production companies. Dangerous has an award-winning track record and extensive co-production experience. Clients include BBC, Discovery Channel, ProSieben,... more
Screenwriter
Andrew Davies is acknowledged to be the most successful adapter of classic novels writing in television today. He began his career by writing radio plays and then moved into writing for television, films, theatre, novels and children's books.
Following... more
Writer and Executive Producer
Russell T Davies was awarded the 2006 Dennis Potter Award at BAFTA for his writing services to television. He created Torchwood for the BBC (Best New Drama Series TV Quick Awards) the second series of which is currently being transmitted on BBC 2 and... more
Publishing Director, Broadcast
Conor Dignam has been writing about the media industry for almost a decade, and worked on business titles in London, New York and Hong Kong.
In October 2003 he became the editor of Broadcast, the weekly newspaper of the television and radio industry.
Dignam... more
Director of Drama & Comedy, The Indie Unit, BBC Worldwide
Sarah Doole is Director of Drama and Comedy at BBCWW at the Indie Unit. She works with indies to distribute and export the best of British drama around the world by investing at script stage. The drama programming distributed by BBCWW extends across all... more
Executive Producer, Skins, a production of Company Pictures and Stormdog Films
2006/07 - SKINS - After creating, co-producing and writing series I and II, Bryan is currently writing series III for Company Television / E4.
2005 - ROSE AND MALONEY II - Created, wrote and co-produced Company / C4, starring Phil Davies, Sarah... more
Chief Executive, Shed Media plc
Eileen Gallagher is managing director and co-owner of Shed Productions the company responsible for ITV's hit dramas Bad Girls and Footballers' Wives. Until recently she has also been the Chair of Pact, the trade body representing over 1000 independent... more
Group Head of Production, Lime Pictures
Jamie joined LIME Pictures in 2005. Before joining LIME, Jamie was a freelance Line Producer working for all the major broadcasters and UK production companies. A sample of the programmes Jamie has worked on are "Our Friends in the North", "Holding On",... more
Controller of Drama Commissioning, ITV
Sally Haynes joined ITV as Deputy Controller of Drama in April 2006 from the BBC where she was Executive Producer, BBC Drama Series and Serials.
Sally joined the BBC in 1991 as a script editor and worked on a variety of programmes including Casualty,... more
Head of Programmes (English), BBC Wales
Clare Hudson is BBC Wales' Head of Programmes (English), based in Cardiff.
She was born in London. After attending university in Bristol, she trained as a journalist on a local weekly newspaper in a Yorkshire mining community. After travelling in the... more
Writer and Director, Dubplate Drama
During his training at YCTV, Luke created countless shows including a chat-show format, Pass the Mic, which in 2000 earned YCTV its first terrestrial commission from BBC2. In 2001, Luke turned his attention from presenting to writing, his first project... more
Producer
With Ecosse Films Caroline is currently developing a wide range of film and television projects for UK broadcasters, US networks and cable channels including HBO, AMC, Showtime, CBS and NBC. She pitches projects on both sides of the water and is always... more
Founder, plainvanilla
Dominic Minghella script edited and wrote Hamish Macbeth starring Robert Carlyle as the dope-smoking Westie-loving policeman for Zenith/BBC. He has also written for radio and American television. His UK television career continued when he created Doc... more
Managing Director, ALL3MEDIA International
Louise joined All3Media International as Managing Director in March 2004 from Carlton International.
All3Media International is one of the UK's leading independent distributors with a catalogue spanning formats, factual and drama programming. In recent... more
Joint MD, Monastic Productions
Ashley is a graduate of The National Film and Television School where his graduation film, Water's Edge, was nominated for a BAFTA and won several international awards. He joined BBC flagship soap EastEnders in 1991 and over four years contributed over... more
Commissioning Editor, Drama, Sky One
Elaine was responsible for commissioning a live action adapation from Terry Pratchett's Discworld franchise for the first time. Filmed and transmitted in HD, the first of the adapted books was event drama Terry Pratchett's Hogfather. It was the highest... more
Managing Director & Executive Producer, Ecosse Films
Douglas Rae set up Ecosse Films in 1988. Since then he has gone on to produce many television programmes and films, including seven series of Monarch of the Glen for the BBC, the Oscar nominated Mrs Brown starring Judi Dench, Charlotte Gray starring Cate... more
Chief Executive, Red Production Company
Nicola Shindler set up Red Production Company in January 1998 to work with writers on modern, innovative and entertaining dramas. Red first went into production Spring 1998 on Russell T Davies 8 part serial, Queer As Folk, for Channel 4. The programme... more
Head of Drama Commissioning, BBC Vision
Ben Stephenson is the Head of Drama Commissioning at the BBC. Working with Jane Tranter, Head of BBC Fiction he oversees all drama development, production and strategy for the four BBC channels. This covers both independent and in-house drama. He has... more
Head of TV, Scott Free
David W. Zucker is President of Television for Scott Free, and Executive Producer of the CBS hit drama, NUMB3RS, now in its fourth season. During his tenure, Scott Free has also produced a steady stream of longform programs including A&E's forthcoming... more
