Unique
Producer Development Scheme set for expansion
Following
the success of the first year of the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's unique Producer Development
Programme in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland the Ö÷²¥´óÐã has announced
that, in its second year, the scheme is to be extended to the English
Regions.
The
announcement was made by Jane Root, Controller Ö÷²¥´óÐã TWO, who was
speaking at the tenth Television from the Nations and Regions Conference,
held at the Lowry in Salford.
The
scheme, run as a joint venture with the Glasgow-based Research Centre
for Television and Interactivity, is currently providing career
enhancement and building executive producer skills for nine producers
drawn from both the Ö÷²¥´óÐã and the independent sector.
It
was set up last year with the stated aim of "reversing the
TV production brain drain" and strengthening and developing
the next generation of executive producers available to both the
Ö÷²¥´óÐã and independent TV companies based in the Nations.
Ö÷²¥´óÐã network
TV production from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland has grown
from £55 million two years ago to around £98 million
in the current year (2002/03).
Next
year's scheme, which starts in June 2003, will now be open to Ö÷²¥´óÐã
in-house and independent producers sponsored by the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's network
production departments in Manchester and Birmingham as a result
of support from the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's Drama & Entertainment and Factual
& Learning divisions - as well as those from Glasgow, Belfast
and Cardiff.
A total
of 12 places will be available, three more than this year.
Colin
Cameron, Controller of Network Development for the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's Nations
and Regions, and who runs the scheme for the Ö÷²¥´óÐã, said:
"After
just six months, the programme has already been hugely successful
in widening producers' horizons and we have had terrific support
from all parts of the Ö÷²¥´óÐã in making it work.
"I
am delighted that Drama & Entertainment and Factual & Learning
have now lent their weight to broadening the scheme next year."
Notes
to Editors
Ö÷²¥´óÐã
Producer Development Programme 2002/03 - Biographies
Northern
Ireland
Noleen
Golding
Noleen
began her TV career with two years as a graduate trainee at Granada
Television.
She
has produced a wide range of Ö÷²¥´óÐã daytime and peaktime programmes
including The National Lottery, Eastenders – A Family Album,
Vets In The Country and most recently she was the Series Producer
for Dog Eat Dog.
Noleen
has also produced This Morning for ITV.
Currently
living and working for the Ö÷²¥´óÐã in London, Noleen intends to re-locate
back to her native Northern Ireland.
Alison
Millar
Alison
is currently Head of Factual for Green Inc, a Belfast-based independent
production company. It is a position she has held for the past two
years.
Prior
to returning to live in Belfast, Alison spent 12 years in England
producing for a number of broadcasters including Channel 4 and the
Ö÷²¥´óÐã.
Her
credits include Jackpot and Made In Manchester for Ö÷²¥´óÐã TWO and Love
In Leeds and Citizen 2000 for Channel 4.
John
O'Kane
John
has worked for Ö÷²¥´óÐã Television for nine years. He has produced and
directed a wide range of current affairs and factual programmes
and his production credits include Panorama and Kenyon Confronts.
His
specialism for Ö÷²¥´óÐã Northern Ireland's current affairs series, Spotlight,
was undercover investigations.
John
won an RTS award for his programme The Life And Death Of An IRA
Quartermaster in 2001.
He
is based at Ö÷²¥´óÐã Northern Ireland in Belfast.
Scotland
Harry
Bell
Harry
is Director of Development for Aberdeen-based independent Tern TV.
He
works out of the company's Glasgow office which he set up on his
return from London in April 2001.
Harry
started his career in theatre production before moving into film
and television in 1994.
He
has worked for various ITV companies, including Granada and Anglia,
and for a number of independents producing for the Ö÷²¥´óÐã and Channel
4.
His
producer credits include She’s Gotta Have It, Atomic Kitten
Uncovered, Find A Fortune, Better Ö÷²¥´óÐãs, and Changing Lives.
Ian
Lilley
Ian
is an experienced freelance producer/director who has worked regularly
in Scotland for the last few years.
He
is keen to make the country his permanent base.
Ian
began his TV career as a Ö÷²¥´óÐã trainee becoming a videotape editor
before moving into production.
Ian
has subsequently worked for all the main UK broadcasters.
A sample
of recent credits includes Mad About Food, The Day Britain Died,
From Here To Modernity and Civil War.
Paul Overton
Paul
is a Glasgow-based producer/director with the independent production
company Lion Scotland.
Paul
has worked in television since the mid-1990s at Ö÷²¥´óÐã Scotland, prior
to which he was a print journalist.
Paul
has steadily built up his TV producer credits with a wide range
of programming for Ö÷²¥´óÐã Scotland together with a number of network
series including The Heat Is On and Castaway 2000.
Paul
is currently producing and directing a six part series on Chicago
Children's Hospital for PBS in the US and for UK Horizon.
Wales
Catrin
Griffith
Catrin
started her TV career ten years ago with HTV Wales where she was
responsible for, among other things, devising and producing The
Ferret, a consumer show that won a Welsh BAFTA for best magazine
programme.
Catrin
has spent the past three years with the Ö÷²¥´óÐã in London during which
she produced Watchdog, Weekend Watchdog, Watchdog Healthcheck and
most recently, Rogue Traders.
Catrin
has recently returned to Wales and is working with the Ö÷²¥´óÐã in Cardiff.
Steve
Robinson
Steve
started out in print journalism in 1990 before moving into TV in
the independent sector in 1994.
He
went on to work with Sky Sports before joining Ö÷²¥´óÐã Wales in 1997.
Since
then Steve has worked for Ö÷²¥´óÐã Wales Sport, then moving into factual
producing and directing a number of network documentary series and
one-offs.
His
producer credits include The Man Who Fell To Earth which won The
Royal Television Society Best Sports Documentary award.
Other
credits include Extreme Lives and Ellen McArthur: Sailing Through
Heaven and Hell.
Judith Winnan
Judith
is currently a Senior Producer with Cardiff based independent production
company Fulmar Television.
Judith
has also worked within the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Wales factual department.
She
has produced and directed for most of the main UK broadcasters and
her credits include No Service Please We’re British and Catherine
The Great for Channel 5, The Slot: Citibank Photography Prize 2002
for Channel 4, and The Private Life Of A Masterpiece for Ö÷²¥´óÐã TWO.
Speech
given by Jane Root, Controller Ö÷²¥´óÐã TWO, at the Television from the
Nations and Regions Conference, Salford (27.11.02)
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