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the BBC, ITV – and even Sky. Standout new commissions like Exile, Love Life, Hit & Miss and Single Father have dovetailed with returning series such as ITV’s popular (and Bafta nomi- nated) Scott & Bailey and Sky Liv- ing’s first ever scripted drama Bedlam, which averaged an impressive 620,000 viewers. It’s a strong and stable slate of work that not only provides the company with a good platform for further development but makes Red comparable with the best in the business.


access in the first place was itself a remarkable feat, and they then turned it into a remarkable piece of television. The pair also collab- orated on BBC3’s acclaimed My Murder, while Goodison directed Nutopia’s Bin Laden: Shoot To Kill for Channel 4.


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With a Bafta for Best Factual Series firmly under their arms, BBC executive producer Colin Barr and producer/director Bruce Goodison can look back on their experience of making BBC3’s Our War and feel both proud and relieved. Our War told the story of British troops in Afghanistan through footage shot by the sol- diers themselves. For this har- rowing experience, the producers had to undergo trauma aware- ness sessions before viewing often graphic and regularly dis- tressing material. Getting the


Big Talk chief executive Kenton Allen is on something of a roll right now, working with the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky and Comedy Central. Fresh from the Bafta- winning success of Rev and BBC3’s most successful ever sitcom launch, Him & Her, the former creative head of BBC Comedy has now added C4’s Rose d’Or-winning Friday Night Dinner to his list of achievements. Series one pulled in audiences of nearly 3 million and it is about to be remade in the US, a territory that Allen has worked hard to conquer. Big Talk is also on to series two of Comedy Central’s Threesome, is making The Job Lot and The Town for ITV1, took its C4 pilot Chickens to Sky 1, and has pulled off the coup of securing Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe for Sky Arts’ A Young Doctor’s Notebook.


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No Broadcast magazine list would be complete without Andy Harries, the man responsible (at least in part) for Cracker, The Royle Family and Cold Feet. In the past year or so, his indie, Left Bank Pictures, has been one of the leading lights in UK drama with a slate that includes Sky 1 and HBO’s Strike Back, Mad Dogs (also Sky 1) and a third series of Wallander for BBC1. Meanwhile, Left Bank is prod- ucing Loving Miss Hatto, Victoria Wood’s BBC1 passion project inspired by the true story of classical pianist Joyce Hatto and her husband Barrie, and co-producing a large-scale international biopic of Nelson Mandela. Turnover at the indie is up and, with an imminent £40m sale on the cards, Harries might not just be hot to trot in 2012; he might be getting the beers in too.


10 Moira Ross Wall to Wall


You have to feel a little sorry for Moira Ross, the former Strictly Come Dancing executive producer who is now Shed Media’s head of entertainment. Responsible for Wall to Wall’s entertainment output, her first assignment was executive producing the BBC1’s The Voice UK. At Strictly, she had a solid, dependable ratings winner; The Voice UK required her to mould a US format for UK audiences and cope with incredi- ble highs of 11 million viewers (and forcing ITV to reschedule Britain’s Got Talent) and lows of around 5 million in less than the time it takes for Will.i.am’s chair to turn around. The tabloids and social networks had a field day. Hysteria aside, the Talpa Media format was very much a victim of its own early success and, with a tweak or two from the woman who rejuvenated Strictly, could one day trump The X Factor.


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