Jane Featherstone (born 1969) is an English television producer[1] and founder of Sister Pictures, a television production company. Prior to that, she was the chief executive of Kudos and co-chairman of Shine UK, now part of Endemol Shine Group.
Biography
Featherstone was educated at Old Palace School and the University of Leeds.
Prior to joining Kudos, Featherstone produced the first two series of Touching Evil and the BBC2 film Sex ‘n’ Death. She worked at Hat Trick Productions where she worked on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Have I Got News For You, and Drop The Dead Donkey.[2]
Featherstone joined Kudos in 2000 as Head of Drama. She became Creative Director in 2008 and the company's Chief Executive in 2011.[3] Whilst at Kudos, she executive produced Spooks, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, Utopia, The Tunnel, and The Smoke. Most recently she has executive produced River by Abi Morgan for BBC1/Netflix, Humans written by Jon Brackley and the Spooks movie The Greater Good.[2]
Featherstone founded independent production company Sister Pictures in November 2015 to develop stories for UK and international audiences. Sister's current projects include The Split by Abi Morgan for BBC 1, Clean Break for ITV 1 starring Sheridan Smith,[4] The Power, and The Bisexual for Channel 4. Sister Pictures is co-producer of Flowers for Channel 4 and Broadchurch for ITV.[5]
Featherstone's other credits include Mayday (BBC1) and series 1 and 2 of The Hour (BBC2), Hustle (BBC1), The Fixer (ITV1), Tsunami: The Aftermath for HBO and BBC2, and Chernobyl (miniseries) for HBO.[6]
She later served as an executive producer for the BBC medical comedy drama series This Is Going to Hurt.[7]
Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Television Society (2010)[8]
- Best Contribution to the Medium Award, Women in Film and TV awards (2007)[2]
References
- ^ IMDB
- ^ a b c "Meet the Crew of AMC's HUMANS". Revenant Media. 27 July 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
- ^ Campbell, Lisa (28 February 2013). "Jane Featherstone, Kudos | In-depth | Broadcast". Broadcastnow.co.uk. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
- ^ "Press Releases".
- ^ Mozafari, Laurence (28 February 2017). "Broadchurch series 3 opens with ITV's biggest drama ratings since 2015". Digitalspy.com. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
- ^ "'Chernobyl' Exec Producer Jane Featherstone on 'Vast' & 'Compelling' HBO Drama Plus Opportunities & Challenges of British Drama". 6 May 2019.
- ^ "Dame Harriet Walter to play Adam Kay's mum". Chortle. 24 June 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
- ^ "RTS Fellows | Royal Television Society". Rts.org.uk. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
External links
- Jane Featherstone at IMDb
- BAFTA Guru – Jane Featherstone's 2017 Television Lecture (recorded 30 October 2017)
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