Category: Factual & Arts TV; Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ
Date: 27.04.2006
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Bridget Boseley has been appointed the new Studio Head for Factual and Features, completing the leadership team for Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Factual and Learning's nine genre-based multimedia studios.
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Bridget was ITV Controller of Factual programmes from June 2003 until January 2006, where she was responsible for commissioning over 100 hours of peak time factual programming a year. She takes up her new role at the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ in August.
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The Features and Formats Studio based in London, produces a range of programmes including established hits like Top
Gear, What Not To Wear, Holiday, Watchdog, Rogue
Traders and Crimewatch UK and new shows like Perfection
With Heston Blumenthal for Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ TWO and Old
Dogs New Tricks, featuring Esther Rantzen and Lyn
Faulds Wood, for Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ ONE.
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John Willis, Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Director of Factual and Learning, said: "Bridget
has a great track record in intelligent popular factual programming. She will
be a great addition to an already successful team.
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"It says a lot for the range
and quality of our output that we have attracted someone of Bridget's calibre
to the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ."
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Bridget Boseley said: "I'm delighted to be returning to the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ and am really looking forward to the opportunities and challenges that a move back into production presents.
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"The department produces some of the most well
known factual titles and my aim is to expand on this success with
a range of new output across all Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ channels."
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While at ITV, Bridget successfully moved ITV's factual output into new territories with popular factual formatted programmes like Holiday Showdown (RTS winner), Bad Lads Army and Ladette to Lady.
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She commissioned a range of factual programming from
The Gunpowder Plot and Titanic - Birth of a Legend to Murder Squad
and Britain's Youngest Mums and Dads.
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Prior to joining ITV, Bridget was Controller of Features for Granada Media and,
under her leadership, the newly created department built up a £10m
business from scratch by becoming a key supplier of popular factual programmes
to all channels.
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Well known brands included 100 Greatest for Channel
4 and After They Were Famous for ITV1.
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Before joining Granada, Bridget was at the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ for ten years where she started as a researcher in the Youth department, working on shows like Rough Guide.
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She later became Series Producer of the Rough Guides
then Editor of Entertainment and Features, Manchester. She was
responsible for executive producing many of Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ TWO's theme nights
and youth output.
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The nine genre based studios were set up by John Willis, the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ's Director of Factual & Learning, in April 2006 to create a simplified and more integrated structure for the division as the world's first cross-platform content creator. The studio heads report to the Controller of Factual Production, Keith Scholey.
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The other studio heads are:
- John Lynch (Science and History)
- Sarah
Hargreaves (Documentaries and Specialist Features)
- Mark
Harrison (Arts)
- Nick Vaughan-Barratt (Events)
- Neil
Nightingale (Head of the Natural History Unit, based in Bristol)
- Tom
Archer (Features and Documentaries, Bristol)
- Tessa
Finch (Features and Documentaries, Birmingham)
- Alan
Bookbinder (Religion, based in Manchester)
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Alan Bookbinder is due
to leave the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ at the end of July and a replacement is being
sought.
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It was also recently announced that Rachel Innes-Lumsden is to become the new Head of Development for the division. She was previously an Executive Producer in Factual and Learning.
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