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25/10/2022
Channel 4 Appoints Commissioning Editor Of Factual Entertainment
Channel 4 has appointed Luke Mcfarlane as commissioning editor in Alf Lawrie’s Factual Entertainment department, to help it expand its reality output.
Luke is an experienced and award-winning TV executive with extensive experience across reality, factual entertainment, and live studio shows. He has worked most recently at Lifted where he was Executive Producer on the live and anarchic The Big Breakfast.
Prior to this, Mcfarlane was Executive Producer at Naked TV, a Fremantle company, and Supervising Exec at ViacomCBS International Studios UK. His credits include the reality and factual entertainment formats The Only Way Is Essex, Celebs Go Dating, Britain’s Next Top Model, Life on Marbs, Sexpod, and MTV Cribs.
Luke joins Channel 4's factual entertainment team as they expand their hunt for young-skewing reality formats to complement Married At First Sight and the upcoming Rise and Fall. He replaces Becky Cadman who left Channel 4 to join Lime as Creative Director: Formats and Talent.
Alf Lawrie, Channel 4's Head of Factual Entertainment, said: "Luke is a hugely respected and accomplished reality showrunner, and I'm thrilled he is joining the team. Reality is ever more important to the portfolio, as we pivot to All4, and he will help us expand our offering."
www.channel4.com
Luke is an experienced and award-winning TV executive with extensive experience across reality, factual entertainment, and live studio shows. He has worked most recently at Lifted where he was Executive Producer on the live and anarchic The Big Breakfast.
Prior to this, Mcfarlane was Executive Producer at Naked TV, a Fremantle company, and Supervising Exec at ViacomCBS International Studios UK. His credits include the reality and factual entertainment formats The Only Way Is Essex, Celebs Go Dating, Britain’s Next Top Model, Life on Marbs, Sexpod, and MTV Cribs.
Luke joins Channel 4's factual entertainment team as they expand their hunt for young-skewing reality formats to complement Married At First Sight and the upcoming Rise and Fall. He replaces Becky Cadman who left Channel 4 to join Lime as Creative Director: Formats and Talent.
Alf Lawrie, Channel 4's Head of Factual Entertainment, said: "Luke is a hugely respected and accomplished reality showrunner, and I'm thrilled he is joining the team. Reality is ever more important to the portfolio, as we pivot to All4, and he will help us expand our offering."
www.channel4.com
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