Lunch with a Commissioner: Daniel Pearl, 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

Daniel Pearl is responsible for a very broad range of factual series. Since joining Channel 5, Daniel has commissioned over 300 hours of peak time shows including more than 30 new series, such as Our Yorkshire Farm, Police Code Zero, Secrets of Your Supermarket Food, Weekend Breaks with Gregg Wallace and World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys. He originated and commissioned global hit Thomas Markle: My Story and has commissioned over a dozen very high rating Royal documentaries. His slate also covers a number of popular returners, such as Nightmare Tenants. He also originated and oversees the highly successful Jeremy Vine daily show and 5 News.

Previously Daniel was Deputy Head of News & Current Affairs at Channel 4 and editor of Dispatches, where he originated and commissioned Emmy Award-winning documentary Leaving Neverland. He also spent 14 years at the BBC as Deputy Editor of Panorama, Newsnight & the Ten O’Clock News.

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.