Listed below are the names of our directors. Click on each link to view their biographical details and responsibilities:
Prior to co-founding Shed, Eileen was Managing Director of LWT (London Weekend Television) and deputy Managing Director of Granada Broadcasting. She also co-created ‘Bad Girls’. Eileen’s business experience and strong creative influence have been instrumental in Shed’s success. As chair of the Independent Producers’ Trade Association (PACT) for 2002 and 2003, she was at the forefront of the successful campaign to introduce amendments into the Communications Bill to strengthen the position of the independent production sector in its dealings with broadcasters. In 2002 / 2003 Eileen picked up two industry awards for outstanding achievements for her work with Shed and the independent production sector as a whole.
Jonathon Kemp joined Shed in 2002 from Capitol Films, a film production and financing company, where he was Head of Finance. Jon has had experience in a number of UK production and broadcasting companies including Fox Kids, where he was involved in the flotation of the channel. Before that Jon worked at Nickelodeon UK. Jon's primary responsibility is the financial management of Shed including overseeing the production finance teams. He is an ACMA qualified accountant.
Brian Park was previously Head of Entertainment at Granada, where he stewarded ‘Stars in their Eyes’, ‘You’ve been Framed’ and ‘Russ Abbot’. His subsequent move to drama resulted in him producing ‘True Love’ and ‘Prime Suspect’. He took over an ailing ‘Coronation Street’, restoring it as the UK’s biggest rating show. Brian produced the first two series of ‘Bad Girls’ and has been Executive Producer on the subsequent series of ‘Bad Girls’, all series of ‘Footballers’ Wives’, the first series of ‘Bombshell’ and ‘Waterloo Road.’
Ann McManus is the story expert and show runner at Shed. She is responsible for the script to screen creative overview for all Shed dramas and has extensive experience writing serial drama for major television networks with a large number of storylines and scripts having appeared on screen in the UK and abroad. Working as story and script executive with Brian Park at Granada, she worked on the successful turn around of an ailing 'Coronation Street'.
Maureen Chadwick is the script expert at Shed and shares the show runner role with Ann McManus. Her television credits include 'Eastenders', 'Eldorado', 'Angels', 'Springhill' and 'Coronation Street', plus two of her own screenplays: 'Two Golden Balls' and 'Watch With Mother', made for BBC1's Screen One Series. She has also written original work for theatre and musical theatre and was a finalist for the Vivian Ellis award for new musicals. Maureen is the lead writer for Shed, working closely with Ann McManus to create stories and characters and develop every episode from master scene storyline to shooting script. Together they write key episodes and, where necessary, edit or re-write others, to ensure a consistent style and quality throughout each series.
Nick began working in TV in 1987 at Brook Productions as a researcher on a major series on the international Debt Crisis. He worked at Diverse Productions in 1988 working on ‘9 to 5’ and at Box productions on ‘The Harrods Sale’. In 1989 he transferred to Channel 4 where he produced ‘Comment’ before becoming series producer on ‘Out of Africa’ and then series editor on ‘Right to Reply’.
In 1995 Nick formed Ricochet, assuming the role of Managing Director. During the last 10 years he has Executive Produced over 500 hours of prime-time network television in the UK, with many of the series having been shown and broadcast throughout the world. He has overseen many projects including, ‘No Going Back’, ‘Its Me Or the Dog’, ‘Risking it All’, and ‘Supernanny’. In 2003, Nick established a Los Angeles offi ce and executive produces the American version of ‘Supernanny’ for ABC. As well as managing the growth of the company, Nick oversees development and overall company strategy.
Nick started his TV career in 1988 making wildlife fi lms for National Geographic. He moved to Sky News in 1990 where he was researcher on the ‘Frank Bough Interview’. In 1991 he started with the BBC in their Natural History unit where he worked on projects including ‘The Really Wild Show’, ‘2 Seconds to Midnight’ and ‘Wildlife on One’. In 1996 Nick transferred to BBC Children’s and then to BBC Science in 1997. In 1998 he formed Tiga Films Ltd making a series of films including ‘An Obsession with Rabbits’, ‘Living with Lama Osel’, ‘In the Blood’ and ‘Saving Trudy’.
Nick joined Ricochet in 1999 as a producer/director making fi lms including ‘The 20th Century Garden’ and ‘What I Really Want for Christmas’. In 2000 he formed Ricochet Digital with Nick Powell and has since executive produced projects including ‘Who Rules the Roost?’, ‘FightBox’, ‘Tetris: From Russia with Love’, ‘Posh Rock’, ‘Mirror Signal Manoeuvre’ and ’Living in the Sun’.
Following the merger between Ricochet Digital and Ricochet South Nick became Creative Director of the new company Ricochet Limited and continues to oversee key projects and manages the company’s rights strategy.
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.
Peter Casely-Hayford Managing Director, Twenty Twenty, has been in the television industry since 1976. He began his career at the BBC in the Television Accounts department, where he gained experience of management and finance in the TV industry. Later, he moved to News and Current Affairs, managing programmes such as Question Time and Newsnight, before becoming Production Unit Manager of Panorama for 5 years. Peter joined Twenty Twenty in 1990 as the Manager of Production, looking after all areas of management within the Group. In 1996 Peter became a director shareholder of Twenty Twenty and was subsequently promoted to Managing Director in 2003. Since that time he has been responsible for the running of the business and profitability of the company. Peter is a director of Twenty Twenty Productions Ltd and Twenty Twenty Brighton Ltd.
Alex Graham Chief Executive, Wall to Wall, co-founded the company in 1987 and has helped build the business into one of the UK’s leading independent content producers. Alex currently holds the following Wall to Wall directorships: Wall to Wall Television Limited, Wall to Wall (Holdings) Limited, Wall to Wall Media Limited, Wall to Wall Drama Limited, Wall to Wall (Egypt) Limited, Wall to Wall S&L 2001 Ltd, Wall to Wall (New Tricks) Limited and Spring Place Services Limited. Alex is also a director and elected chair of PACT, director of Producers Rights Agency Limited and director of Independent Production Training Fund.
Katherine Innes Ker is a Non-executive Director of Taylor Woodrow plc, Fibernet plc, Wickam Capital, The Ordnance Survey and Williams Lea plc. Having gained a D. Phil in molecular biophysics at Oxford University, she joined UBS Phillips and Drew in 1987 as a UK media analyst. She subsequently worked at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and SBC Warburg as a Director and pan European media analyst. She is a trustee of The Tavistock Trust for Aphasia, and has been a Non-executive Director of ITVdigital plc (formerly Ondigital plc), The Television Corporation plc and Bryant Group plc.
David Kogan is the Chief Executive and co founder of Reel Enterprises Limited, a company specialising in rights negotiations, channel development and sport in the UK and global media markets. Reel Enterprises advise the BBC and other leading UK broadcasters as well as leading sports leagues such as the FA Premier League on all its media rights deals in the UK and overseas. In 1979 he worked as a marketing executive at Express Newspapers, and then in 1982 he joined the BBC where he worked as a senior producer on news and current affairs programmes such as 'Today', 'Newsnight' and 'Breakfast Time'. He was the BBC radio editor in New York in 1984/5. In 1988 he joined Reuters Televison as Managing Editor. He subsequently became Managing Director in the United Kingdom and was then, for three years, the global Managing Director. He also acted as the launch Managing Editor of GMTV in 1993. In 1996 David joined the Granada Media Group as Executive Director of Granada Channels, which he left to create Reel Enterprises in 1998.
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