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 genres and all UK channels - Primeval, The Fixer, Hotel Babylon, Robin Hood, Suburban Shootout and Mistresses.

Sarah began her career at Yorkshire Television as a researcher, producer and Head of Development. As Director of Enterprises at Yorkshire Tyne Tees she oversaw the worldwide exploitation of shows such as Heartbeat, Darling Buds of May and The Tube.

As head of Commercial Development at Granada LWT she brand managed the off screen revenue on dramas including Coronation Street, London's Burning and Cold Feet.

She worked in the USA for major cable network The Family Channel (now ABC Family) setting up their international operations including launching the Latin American Family Channel and the first Western joint venture production company in China.

She returned to work for an enlarged Granada as Creative Director for Commercial Ventures - brand managing programming ranging from Emmerdale to Popstars. She joined the set up joint venture BBC DVD arm - 2Entertain as Head of Independents before moving the the Indie Unit in 2007.