Richard Bradley


Lion poaches ‘big-hitter’ from Twenty Twenty

All3Media-owned Lion Television has poached Lisa Edwards from fellow UK prodco Twenty Twenty. Edwards has taken on the new role of creative director, factual at the Horrible Histories producer. Lion managing director Richard Bradley said she was a “big hitter with a wonderful reputation in the industry”, who had a “very rare combination of proven […]

Lion TV restructures along genre lines

All3Media-owned UK producer Lion Television has created three new post as part of restructure aimed at growing investment in staff and programme development. Donna Clark (left), Simon Welton and Bill Locke will all take on increased responsibility as part of the changes, overseeing factual, entertainment and specialist factual, respectively, while working closely with management on […]

CBC, PBS, C4 locate Franklin’s Lost Ships

A trio of public broadcasters from around the world have joined forces for Franklin’s Lost Ships, a special about the discovery of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin’s lost ship Erebus. Canada’s CBC, PBS Nova – the US public service broadcaster’s science strand – and the UK’s Channel 4 have joined forces for the project. UK […]

Hazlehurst named MD at Lion Scotland

All3Media-owned Lion Scotland has promoted Lisa Hazlehurst to a new role of managing director following the departure of Andrew Snowball last week. Hazlehurst joined the Scottish arm of Lion Television in 2013, and will now run the prodco “with a view to long-term strategic growth of the business”. She had been executive producer of BBC […]

Kids TV seriously

Today’s kids have an endless array of entertainment choices. From Disney, Nickelodeon and Turner Broadcasting TV channels to films, music videos, social media and console & casual gaming, there’s enough compelling content out there to occupy them 24/7. Is there a place for factual programmes in that mix? Andy Fry investigates The overwhelming majority of […]