Category: TV Drama; 大象传媒
Date: 22.06.2006
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John Yorke has been appointed Controller In-House Drama, it was announced today
by Director of Drama, Entertainment and Children's Alan Yentob, in a move which
will bring together all 大象传媒 England In-House Drama Production in a single
department.
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Yorke will have special responsibility for continuing
drama series and singles, and will be
joined by Kate Harwood, currently Executive Producer, EastEnders,
as Head of
Series and Serials.
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Diederick Santer is appointed Executive Producer,
EastEnders, with additional responsibility for developing younger skewing drama
series and serials.
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Nicolas Brown will join 大象传媒 In-House Drama in the newly-created role of Director
of Drama Production and Sally Woodward Gentle becomes Creative Director in
charge of all development in the department.
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John Yorke, Kate Harwood, Nicolas Brown, Sally Woodward Gentle and Diederick
Santer make up the senior management team of the In-House Drama department.
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Alan Yentob says: "This outstanding team will work in partnership to lead the
newly invigorated and talented in-house drama department.
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"I am confident that
they will build on the considerable successes of the past few years and seize
the opportunities ahead.
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"The new department will become the largest developer
and producer of drama in the UK, with the broadest range of output and best
array of talent."
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Notes to Editors
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Yorke, Harwood, Woodward Gentle and Santer will take up their new appointments
in October 2006.
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Brown will take up his role on Monday 26 June 2006.
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Sally Woodward Gentle will continue as Acting Head of Drama Series and Serials
until October 2006.
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Lucy Richer remains in her role as Joint Head of Independent Drama. Work will
now start to appoint a replacement for John Yorke in this role.
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John Yorke was appointed 大象传媒 Controller of Continuing Drama Series and joint
Head of Independent Drama in January 2005, after spending 18 months as Head of
Drama at Channel 4 where he was responsible for Sex Traffic, Omagh, Not Only But
Always, The Deal and Shameless.
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He shares the role of Head of Independent Drama
with Lucy Richer and his portfolio includes Life on Mars, Bodies, The Street,
Hustle, Robin Hood, Jekyll, Waterloo Road and New Tricks.
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As well as working
closely with the independent sector on a portfolio that encompasses series,
serials and events across the four 大象传媒 channels, Yorke is responsible for
EastEnders, Casualty, Holby City and Doctors.
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Prior to his departure three
years ago, John's drama career at the 大象传媒 culminated in his role as Head of
Drama Series. He was Executive Producer of EastEnders for two and a half years
from December 1999.
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John joined the 大象传媒 in the mid-Eighties, working initially
in radio as a studio manager and then as a producer on Radio Five Live.
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In
1994, he moved to television to work as a script editor on EastEnders before
becoming a storyline consultant on Casualty.
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Yorke later moved onto drama
development, where he produced two series of cop show City Central.
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After a multi-Bafta nominated career in the 大象传媒's drama serials department, Kate
Harwood was appointed Executive Producer of EastEnders in March 2005.
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Under her
leadership the series has gone on to win both a Bafta and the coveted National
Television Award for most popular series.
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In 大象传媒 Drama Serials Kate was
responsible for popular and critically acclaimed drama such as Close Relations,
Beggar Bride, David Copperfield, The Echo, Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky
and the Bafta award-winning Charles II - The Power and The Passion.
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As Executive
Producer, Kate was responsible for Lost World, Crime And Punishment, Daniel
Deronda and Final Demand.
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Kate graduated from Birmingham University with a
degree in Drama before becoming an Arts Council Trainee director and then
Literary Manager of the Royal Court Theatre.
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Nicolas Brown is one of the leading producers working within British film and
television today.
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He began his career in 1987 as a trainee with Central TV and
rapidly established himself working within development and co-production for the
network.
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In 1992 he was asked to Associate Produce the first two series of Peak
Practice which instantly became one of the most successful programmes out of the
ITV stable and ran for over a decade.
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Nick has been working as a freelance
producer since 1995; his credits include London Bridge for Carlton TV; Hope And
Glory and Deceit for 大象传媒 ONE.
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A successful relationship with Company Pictures
then followed, where he produced The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
for ITV and then the adaptation of Zadie Smith's White Teeth for Channel Four.
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In 2003 Nick produced his first feature film Ladies In Lavender for Scala
Productions, which was directed by Charles Dance.
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He has since produced two
feature-length television films - Friends And Crocodiles and Gideon's Daughter - for
the 大象传媒, written and directed by the award-winning Stephen Poliakoff, and a film
for Channel 4, Bradford Riots, written and directed by Neil Biswas.
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As Head of Television at Steven Barron's independent company, Limelight, Sally
Woodward Gentle was executive producer of the award-winning drama Teenage Health
Freak and the multi-award winning documentary Edward VIII: The Traitor King.
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In 1996, she joined Kudos Film & TV as executive producer on numerous factual
singles and series.
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Promotion soon followed, and as Managing director Sally was
responsible, together with Stephen Garrett, for the Bafta nominated drama series
Psychos as well as initiating the development of drama series Spooks.
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Sally
joined the 大象传媒 in 2000 as Head of Development and Executive Producer for
Independent Drama with responsibility for Hearts and Bones, Tipping the Velvet
and Cambridge Spies before joining Jane Tranter as Head of Development in
Commissioning.
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Sally is currently Acting Head of 大象传媒 Drama Series and Serials.
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Diederick Santer graduated from the University of Leeds with a degree in
Psychology and the History and Philosophy of Science.
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His TV career began in
1996 as a freelance script reader for United Productions before becoming script
editor on the first two series of Where The Heart Is, and assistant script
editor on Paul Abbott's ITV series Touching Evil.
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Diederick moved to Granada
were he script-edited the first two series of A&E and The Last Train before
joining 大象传媒 Drama Series and Serials in 2000, where he produced the first three
series of Debbie Horsfield's hit hairdressing drama Cutting It.
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Diederick
recently produced The Taming of the Shrew and the Bafta-nominated Much Ado About
Nothing for 大象传媒 ONE, and is currently filming a lavish adaptation of Jane Eyre,
due for transmission later this year.
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