Tim Hancock to join Channel 4 Features and Daytime commissioning team

14 March 2016

Tim Hancock will be joining Channel 4 as Commissioning Editor for Features and Daytime next month, reporting to Head of Features Gill Wilson. He will be tasked with commissioning across prime time features for Channel 4, More 4, and All 4 as well as the Channel 4 daytime schedule.

Hancock joins the newly merged Features and Daytime team headed by Wilson with David Sayer as Head of Daytime, Alex Menzies Deputy Head of Features, Kate Teckman and Lizi Wootton as Commissioning Editors Features, and recently promoted Helen Cook as Editor, and Clemency Green as Commissioning Executive.

Hancock joins from Naked Entertainment where he was in post as Head of Development. He has previously held senior development positions at Twenty Twenty, BBC in-house, World of Wonder, Blast! Films, Optomen, NERD, Alchemy and Charlie Parson’s Castaway Television.

His credits include BBC2’s The Naked Choir, The Incredible Spice Men and forthcoming series The Factory, as well as Finding Sarah for Oprah Winfrey’s network OWN and BBC arts documentary Alive in the Face of Death. He also recently created the high-rating Channel 4 shorts series Rich Kids Go Shopping and How To Pull.

Gill Wilson said “We are very lucky to have Tim and look forward to him joining the team. His wisdom, warmth and wit are perfectly in tune with what we are looking for across the Channel 4 Features and Daytime slate.'

Tim said “I’m completely thrilled to be joining a channel I’ve always felt such a deep love for. It’s a uniquely creative place, so the opportunity to get stuck into C4 commissioning was impossible to turn down.”

Simon Andreae from Naked said “As a colleague, I'm very sad to lose Tim. As a friend, I'm excited for this opportunity. Indies that deal with him will find a champion whose creative dexterity is matched only by his wicked sense of fun.”

Channel 4 Features and Daytime commission across Channel 4, More 4, E4 and All 4 prime time and Channel 4 daytime with programming that reflects how we live today or how we can live better. Features and Daytime programming centres around the ingenious, the eccentric, the audacious, and attention-grabbing propositions across a huge range of topics with key areas of interest being health, parenting, food, finances and property.

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