Amy Flanagan appointed Deputy Head of Documentaries

6 November 2014

 

Channel 4 today announces the promotion of Amy Flanagan to Deputy Head of Documentaries.

Amy Flanagan will now support Head of Documentaries Nick Mirsky in shaping the strategic direction of the documentaries output and to ensure coherence of the key prime-time documentaries titles. This newly-created role reflects the significant expansion in both scale and range of the department’s output with documentaries among the most important genres for delivering both Channel 4’s remit and commercial position.

She will have responsibility, along with Nick for developing innovation in form, overseeing the range of subjects covered and the long-term development of key documentary-making talents.

Mirsky says: “I am really thrilled that Amy will be taking on this role.  She has already proven herself an enormously successful and talented commissioner.  Now, as well as continuing to commission some of the Channel’s most important output, she will also be taking a more strategic role in the Department and the long-term future of our output.”

Since joining Channel 4 in January this year, Flanagan has been behind the critically-acclaimed and ratings hit series 24 Hours in Police Custody and Royal Marines Commando School.

As a multi-award winning executive producer Flanagan has worked on a wide range of challenging and impactful content. Working for The Garden Productions she series produced and directed the first series of the critically-acclaimed and ratings hit 24 Hours in A&E, which won the Royal Television Society (RTS) Award for Best Documentary Series and went on to co-exec series two. She also was the executive producer for last year’s Bafta-winning series Bedlam.

Previously, she spent six years at Blast! where she produced Victorian Sex Explorer (RTS Winner),The Artful Codgers and Last Days of the Raj (both Grierson-nominated) and factual drama Sex, the City and Me. Other credits include co-producer on the BAFTA-winning Feltham Sings for Century TV and series producer on the second series of The Hospital for North One.