Chris Bonney is the Managing Director of Outright Distribution, a London-based distributor owned by the Shed Group and specialising in the areas of factual entertainment, formats and drama. The group’s programming successes include Footballers’ Wives, Bad Girls, Supernanny and It’s Me Or the Dog.

Chris began his career in 1986 at ECM, a specialist in advertiser-funded programming and format distribution. He left in 1989 to join the TV programming department at Saatchi & Saatchi, followed by a spell as Manager of Sponsorship at Tyne Tees Television. Chris rejoined ECM at the end of 1991, where he rose to become Chief Operating Officer in 2001. Together with a team of experienced television distribution executives from ECM, Chris established Screentime Partners as an MBO in August 2003, which changed changed its name to Outright Distribution Limited in January 2007 following the acquisition by Shed.