Lunch with a Commissioner: Adrian Padmore Commissioning Editor, factual, Channel 5

Grab your homemade sandwich of choice and get ready to dine with a different commissioner every day. At 1pm from Monday to Friday, participants will be able to join a commissioner and listen to their insights as well as ask questions at the end of the hour.

These are great sessions for our freelance community who don’t normally get the opportunity to chat to commissioners. So, if you’re a head honcho who normally has all the commissioners on speed-dial this session isn’t for you! Please keep this in mind when booking. Thanks for your support and understanding.

Speaker

Adrian Padmore joined Channel 5 as Commissioning Editor, Factual in May 2017.

At Channel 5 he is responsible for commissioning peak-time factual and factual entertainment programming across the channel with series including Police Interceptors, Trawlermen: Celebs at Sea, 5 Mistakes that Caught a Killer and the World’s Most Expensive Cruise Ship.

Adrian has overseen such popular Channel 5 series as: Traffic Cops; Inside the Nick 24/7; Race: My Story; Police Raids; Wonderful World of Chocolate; Secrets of the Royal Palaces; Oxford Street 24/7; The Bermuda Triangle Enigma; World’s Strongest Man; Inside Hotel Chocolat; Celebrity Big Brother and Digging Up Britain’s Past.

He joined Channel 5 from the BBC where he was Commissioning Editor of Daytime and Early Peak from 2015 to 2017 working across a combination of established brands and new series including: The Great British Menu; Escape to the Country; Springwatch Unsprung; Housing Enforcers; Secret Life of the Hospital Bed; Antiques Road Trip and A1: Britain’s Longest Road.

This event is supported by the ScreenSkills Television Skills Fund which invests in training for the freelance television workforce thanks to contributions from the BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5.

It is part of a ScreenSkills programme managed by the Indie Training Fund to support freelancers to upskill and stay connected, helping keep the industry resilient in these difficult times.

This session will take place online via Zoom. Click ‘get ticket’ to reserve your place: you must login or register before you are able to get a ticket for this event. A booking confirmation with a joining link to the session will be sent to you via email.

If you are no longer able to use your ticket, we ask you to please contact support@screenskills.com  so that we can release your place. Our sessions are often oversubscribed, so we’d like to give other freelancers the opportunity to fill available spots. Thank you for your consideration.