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I have been working in television in the UK for over 20 years and in that time I have been involved in some fabulous productions. From my early days with BBC Entertainment and at Avalon TV as a Producer and Head of Production, to the years at ITV Entertainment as a Series and Executive Producer, each production had its own special moments.
I learnt a lot and got to work with some fantastic people. I hope you enjoy this journey through some of the best of British entertainment as much as I have.
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Producing a live music event inside a working Parliament raised many challenges as did the hall itself - a massive space with impossible acoustics, which had to be transformed into a music venue for 1200 people. Months of meetings and negotiations with the Parliamentary Authorites, sponsors and a variety of stakeholders resulted in a magical event which featured a Maori haka, a steel band, a show band, a piper, morris men, choirs from Australia, Canada and South Africa, the Watoto Children’s Choir from Uguanda, Heritage Dancers from India, Westminster’s own Parliament Choir and soprano Laura Wright - all topped off with a 100 strong combined Welsh Male Voice Choir.
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Narrated by Robert Powell, this ten part series takes a year by year look at the highs and lows, the political and showbiz scandals, the rising stars and the fallen heroes of the 1990s. It’s got the best of British pop culture from the rave scene to Brit Pop. There’s pickled cows, cloned sheep, the wrong kind of snow and all the fads, fashions and crazes that swept the nation.
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Follow the royal soap opera of Charles and Diana, the trials and the tribulations of John Major, the rise of Tony Blair’s New Labour and the birth of Cool Britannia. Find out what made the people of Britain take to the streets in protest, and re-live the sporting triumphs and disasters that brought the nation together. From the first Gulf War to Millennium Eve, it’s jam-packed with facts, fun and absolutely everything you need to know.
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IT’LL BE ALRIGHT ON THE NIGHT (EPS 19, 20 and ITV 50 SPECIAL)
Out-takes and bloopers selected as ever by host Denis Norden.
DENIS NORDEN'S 13th LAUGHTER FILE
Bloopers, classic sketches and things that go bump in the studio
ALL THE BEST FROM DENIS NORDEN
The legendary Denis Norden makes his final selection of the best of the best.
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This award winning home video clip show, packed with viewer videos and extreme sporting bloopers, was Sky One's highest performing UK produced programme at the time.
Hosted by Kirsty Gallacher from various glamourous and not so glamourous locations, the clips were neatly packaged with an eclectic mix of music and a comedy voice over.
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Vinnie Jones guides us through the history of the relationship between advertisers and the beautiful game in this documentary featuring classic football adverts, soccer stars and celebrity interviews.
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The second special of the risque out-takes and naughty blooper show hosted by Steve Penk.
This original studio format was produced as a special every 3-6 months but was later revamped and turned into a long-running series with episodes produced every 3 weeks for almost 3 years.
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Prior to his succesful Sky One sitcom Time Gentlemen Please, Comedian Al Murray’s one man show as The Pub Landlord was recorded as an outside broadcast on location at The Playhouse Theatre, London for TV broadcast and DVD Release.
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Hosted by comedians and football fanatics David Baddiel and Frank Skinner, Fantasy World Cup Live was the TV success of 1998!
Live every other night throughout the World Cup it featured studio guests, hilarious clips, international football stars recreating infamous football moments in the regular “Pheonix from the Flames”, and a song to end the show.
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David Blaine suspended in a perspex box above the Thames required 24 hour monitoring of the live feed for content, compliance and medical issues.
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The best moments from The Comedy Network, Channel Five’s Stand-up show hosted by comedian Boothby graffoe and featuring performances from the likes of Jenny Eclair, Sean Lock, Dave Gorman and Stewart Lee.
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A sitcom pilot starring David Baddiel, originally made for ITV but later becoming a 13 part series for Sky One. written by David Baddiel with a US style team of writers working on the series.
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Documentary shot on location in Fiji following Richard Herring and celebrity friends as he writes a play for the 1999 Edinburgh Festival. Trying to find the money to send 4 people on holiday to Fiji is bad enough but having to film and edit it as well was a tall order. Luckily producer James Bobin tagged along with a DV Camera, the play was written and the programme came together beautifully.
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A Radio One special for Christmas Eve written and performed by experimental techno pop comedians The POD featuring a pre-Mighty Boosh Julian Barratt.
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Comedian Frank Skinner’s chat show for the BBC with stand-up comedy, sketches and celebrity guests.
As Head of Production during The Frank Skinner Show’s later move to ITV, Janet was also responsible for the teams which created many hugely successful series.
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A selection of the finest moments from comedian Frank Skinner’s BBC chat show.
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With Baddiel and Skinner’s Three Lions topping the charts and England going football mad, this weekly chat with celebrity guests and a look at the funniest footballing events of the week really was an exciting programme to be involved with.
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A light hearted review of the year’s events for New Year’s Eve The End of The Year Show was hosted by Angus Deayton with funny clips, stills, news headlines and celebrity guests Nick Hancock, Maureen Lipman, Paul O’Grady, Alexei Sayle and Richard Wilson.
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Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie hosted a star-studded extravaganza with special guest Ronnie Corbett in his infamous chair and Sandie Shaw performing a Little Drummer Boy accompanied by Vic and Bob.
The show paid tribute to the tradition of Christmas Night With The Stars of years gone by, featuring specially recorded sketches by some of the year’s top comedy talent.
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A factually correct (if a little surreal) Almost Complete History of the Twentieth Century produced in the comedy revoiced archive style of, and featuring the same star studded cast as The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos.
From the Russian Revolution, the Eugenics Movement and the Middle East Crisis to the fight against Malaria - (almost) nothing was left out.
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Space traveling penguins, foul-mouthed cowboys and love-sick pandas all starred in this cult TV favourite written by Geoff Atkinson and Kim Fuller.
Staggering Stories featured archive footage re-voiced by such stars as Alistair McGowan, Ronnie Ancona, Jim Broadbent, Richard E Grant, Jim Broadbent, Kate Robbins, Enn Reitel and Jon Glover.
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Lenny Henry’s comedy series needed the support of some dodgy archive footage for it’s weekly spoof 70s cop sketches.
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In addition to Jo Brand’s stand-up and comedy sketches, this series also made innovative use of footage, enabling Jo to appear as Renata singing with husband Renee and accompany Pan’s People as they perform their infamous dance routine with a St Bernard Dog.
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Impressionist Rory Bremner’s BBC TV series entitled simply Rory Bremner included Rory’s trade-mark monologues, sketches plus political and social comment from colleagues John Bird and John Fortune.
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As the world witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and Manchester witnessed the rise of the club scene, Reportage tried out new ways to bring Current Affairs to the ‘yoof’ audience.
Presented by Rough Guide’s Sankha Guha and Magenta Devine as part of Janet Street Porters “Def II” youth strand.
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As Head of Production at Avalon Television, I was responsible for setting up live comedy show Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned, sit-coms Time Gentlemen Please and Baddiel’s Syndrome, chat show Jenny Eclair’s Private Function, sketch shows Harry Hill and The Jim Tavare Show plus many others.
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I had the pleasure of working closely with many talented producers, writers and comedians.
I brought some of the best producers, directors and production managers to the company, putting together top notch crews to help the on-screen talent create some extraordinary TV.
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