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a commercial success, having been rolled out to 19 countries. Meanwhile, over at the BBC, quirky gameshow Pointless has been promoted from BBC2 daytime to BBC1 and even spawned a peaktime celebrity spin-off.


going under; the hope was that the ratings wouldn’t follow. As it turned out, the UK didn’t embrace Julian Fellowes’ reimag- ining of the doomed liner in a big way, but it was a remarkable feat just to get it made. The rest of the world lapped it up, though, with 96 territories jumping on board. And Bartlett is more than just Titanic. She’s respon- sible for the hugely popular Vera for ITV, White Heat for BBC2 and Shetland, BBC1’s forthcoming detective drama based on Ann Cleeves’ novels. Who needs boats anyway?


16 Gavin Henderson


BBC Natural History Unit (previously Initial)


When it comes to on-screen talent, it’s hard to know which is the more diffi cult to handle: incarcerated, fame-seeking wan- nabes or painfully shy bear cubs in the wild. While it’s clear that neither will willingly hit a mark, Gavin Henderson could tell you better than most, having turned Big Brother into a Channel 5 brand and, after three series, taken creative executive duties on Planet Earth Live. Now in his second spell at the BBC’s Natural History Unit in Bristol, after stints at RDF and Initial, he is clearly the go-to man when it comes to event television, whether it’s bears or bare behinds that are the order of the day.


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18 Jes Wilkins


Firecracker Films 17 Kate Bartlett ITV Studios


As ITV Studios’ creative director for drama in London, Kate Bart- lett was always going to experi- ence a sinking feeling in 2012. With ITV’s most expensive drama ever, Titanic, on her exec slate, she knew that the boat was


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Firecracker Films head of pro- grammes Jes Wilkins has had a stonking time of late – thanks in the main to the secretive and extravagant world of the UK’s traveller community. As the exec- utive producer of the runaway ratings success that is Big Fat Gypsy Weddings (below), he and the Chelsea Harbour-based indie have brought consolidated audi- ences of more than 9 million to Channel 4 and both are now reaping the rewards. Company turnover is up 163% year on year, awards nominations have fl ooded in (including three Broadcast Awards) and a raft of BFGW spin-offs have been commissioned. With a CV that already included A Very British Party, Babies Behind Bars and The Autis- tic Me, Wilkins is a master of the human interest story.


19 Camilla Lewis Cinefl ix Productions


Appointed Cinefl ix Productions UK managing director in Sep- tember last year, Camilla Lewis is already making an impression. Using her six years at Talkback as a foundation, she is guiding the Canadian fi rm’s UK operation with an ambition to increase its international footprint in factual features and fact ent. And it’s working. Four new formats have been greenlit this year, including Channel 4 Goes Mad, a 2 x 60-minute event piece challenging mental health stigma and discrim- ination. She has also over- seen the multimillion- pound deal for Air Aces, an international co-pro for History Television Canada, the Military Channel in the US and Channel 5, and a second series of Salvage Hunters (Dis-


covery). 20 Paul Hamann Wild Pictures


Like Steve McQueen’s character in The Great Escape, Wild Pic- tures’ creative director Paul Hamann is probably best known for successfully negotiating his way into and out of high-security prisons. But while ‘The Cooler King’ was recaptured, Hamann has got away scot-free – in fact, he has emerged with ratings- winning documentaries – from four different penitentiaries. His fi rst, Strangeways, was acclaimed for its “astonishing” levels of access and became one of ITV1’s most-watched docu- mentary series in a decade, aver- aging 5.9 million (22%) viewers. Wormwood Scrubs was described by the Observer as “one of the most vivid and compelling documentaries seen anywhere on tele vision for years”. The latest, Aylesbury, focusing on a specialist young offenders’ insti- tution, will follow later in 2012. With such critical and commer- cial success, who says crime doesn’t pay?


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