Lunch with a Commissioner: Clare Mottershead, commissioning editor popular factual and factual entertainment, BBC
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
Clare Mottershead is a commissioning editor in the BBC Popular Factual and Factual Entertainment Department. Past credits include War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita and Easy Ways to Live Well for BBC One, Travels in Trumpland with Ed Balls and The Family Brain Games for BBC Two and Sex on the Couch for BBC Three. She’s also the current commissioning editor for BBC One’s Sunday night heritage brands Countryfile and The Antiques Road Show.
Prior to joining the BBC, Clare was an executive producer at Dragonfly TV where she worked for 11 years across production and development on a wide range of projects including Born Too White (BBC Two), Kill it, Cook it, Eat it (BBC Three), Driving Wild and One Car Too Far (both Discovery Networks International) and The Human Power Station (BBC Two). Prior to Dragonfly, Clare was a freelance producer working for the BBC and various leading independent production companies including Tiger Aspect, DSP and Oxford Film and Television.
The session is chaired by Patrick McMahon, Assistant Commissioner, Popular Factual and Factual Entertainment, BBC.
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.