DEVELOPMENT BACKGROUND
Currently on the prestigious 'Development SuperSizers' course - specifically designed to boost leading development talent.
Relationships with all major broadcasters in factual and daytime.
A skilled writer of proposals, treatments and scripts. A proficient self shooter and sizzle edit producer. Can rough cut on Avid and Premier.
Very experienced casting. Can find excellent characters, and pitch those contributors to commissioners.
Commissions include:
- Dom Delivers (BBC Daytime)
- Gardener's World: British Asian Special (BBC Two)
- The Home That 2 Built (BBC Two)
- Castles: A Fortified History (BBC Four)
- Medical Mysteries (C5).
As part of a team I have worked on commissions including;
- Nadiya’s British Food Adventure (BBC),
- Gymstars (CBBC)
- Countryfile Royal Specials (BBC)
- Geordie Shore (MTV)
I have gained exclusive access: Amazon, NHS Blood, Iceland, The Royal Mail, Historic England, The Royal Mint and a number of Police Forces and NHS Trusts.
Sample treatments/decks/sizzles available on request.
DEVELOPMENT CREDITS
Head of Development - Boom TV
Writing treatments, devising formats and pitching to BBC, S4C, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 commissioners. Shooting and editing taster tapes. Having face-to-face meetings with commissioners including Kate Teckman, Catherine Catton, Ian Dunkley, Seb Cardwell, and Lindsay Bradbury. Promoted from Development Producer to Head of Development by Creative Director Kate Thomas (before she left for Channel 4) and led the development team for 18 months. My role was to lead the development team until a new creative director was hired.
June 2018 - October 2020
MD: Nia Thomas
Development / Access Producer - Dom Delivers
Boom TV for BBC Daytime
Having won the commission for BBC Daytime by securing access during paid development. David continued working on this series about deliveries gaining access to some of the UKs biggest names during the height of the COVID-19 restrictions. Brands included:
- Amazon
- The Royal Mail
- Iceland Supermarket
- The Post Office
- They Royal Mint
- NHS Blood
- AO
- Abel and Cole
- Jaguar Land Rover
- Just Eat
August 2020- October 2020
Executive Producer: Rachel Evans
Development Producer - Icon Films
Writing treatments, devising formats and pitching to BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5 commissioners. Meeting potential talent. Gaining access to a high profile government agency. Producing taster tapes. Working in Factual and Fact Ent.
October 2017 - March 2018
Creative Director: Stephen McQuillan
History AP / Development - Back In Time For Tea
Wall to Wall for BBC Two
Working across 6 programmes. In-depth fact-finding for popular living history format. Dealing with museums, academics and government institutions to acquire archive and historical facts for the series. Devising and developing potential tasks, meals and stories to tell within each programme covering a time period from 1914-2000. FS7 shooting on location.
Also assisted with the final development of 'The Sweetmakers at Christmas'
April 2017 - September 2017
Series Producer: Christina Nutter
Deevelopment AP - BBC Studio Factual and Features
Developing Arts, Factual and Features programme for BBC in house production. Shooting development casting Taster tapes, meeting with potential talent, taking part in brainstorms, writing treatments. Commissions include ‘Mary Berry’s Christmas Party’, ‘Nadiya’s Great British Food Adventure, and Countryfile specials
Department Leads: Morgana Wicks & Kate Vines
December 2016 - April 2017
Development Producer - Drummer TV
Casting, shooting and editing for a funded development taster tape about youth homelessness in Bristol. Liaising and shooting tasters with potential talent. Gaining access to an NHS nursing team. Working on projects for BBC Docs, BBC Food, Channel 4 docs, Channel 5 Features, Sky Arts and CBBC.
MDs: Tamsin Summers & Rachel Drummond-Hay
December 2015 - April 2016
DEVELOPMENT CREDITS
2006-2013
- Development Researcher - BBC Features Bristol
- Development Casting Researcher – Lime Pictures – Geordie Shore Series 1
- Development Researcher – Renegade
- Development Researcher - Lime Pictures Drama
- Development Researcher – Freeform Productions
SELECTED PRODUCTION CREDITS
2006-2018
Shooting PD / Casting Producer
- Crimewatch Roadshow—BBC Unscripted Productions - April 18—June 18
- The Royal Collection Partnership films - BBC Arts - October 17’-December 17’ (Also Jan 14’-Feb 14’)
- Countryfile Autumn Diaries - BBC Unscripted Productions - August 2017 - September 2017
- Countryfile Spring Diaries - BBC Unscripted Productions - April 2017 - May 2017
- Meet the Humans - BBC Earth -June 2016 - December 2016
- Medical Mysteries (C5) Tigress Productions - April 2015 - October 2015
- Timeshift: Spicing Up Britain (BBC Four) - BBC Arts Bristol August 2014 - November 2014
- BBC Arts at Hay Festival - BBC Arts Bristol - May 2014 - June 2014
- Timeshift: The Nation’s Railway- BBC Arts Bristol February 2014 - May 2014
- Evil Up Close (CI Network) - Firstlook TV - July 2011 - November 2012
Skills/ Qualifications
- TRC SuperSizers Development 2021 cohort
- TRC Taking Development Online
- Frank Ash BBC Treatment Writing Course
- BBC Shoot and Edit 7-Day Course
- BBC Legal Compliance Training
- BBC Safeguarding Trust
- FS7 Training
- BBC C300 conversion course
- BBC Lighting Course
- Manual Handling
- Driving Licence