Lunch with a Commissioner: Gemma John-Lewis, asssistant commissioning editor, entertainment, ITV

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

Gemma John-Lewis is a commissioning editor on a range of productions within the ITV entertainment portfolio. Ranging from studio to location-based formats, contributor-led factual entertainment formats, live events and children’s live-action series. For ITV she is across series including Catchphrase, Big Star’s Little Star, The British Soap Awards and The Olivier Awards. She also works across ITV2, shows such as Take me Out: The Gossip, ITVBe's Dinner Date and Dinner Date: Love at First Bite and also CiTV's Scrambled! and Spy School.

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.