Lunch with a Commissioner: Jonah Weston, specialist factual, Channel 4

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

Jonah Weston is Commissioning Editor for Science and Adventure in the Specialist Factual Department at Channel 4. Before joining Channel 4 he was a Bafta-nominated and RTS award-winning producer. Since arriving at Channel 4 has overseen the highly successful reformatting of civilian SAS, and delivered the first celebrity series of the show, as well as looking after Guy Martin’s many adventures, and commissioning original series including Meat the Family, and What Makes a Murderer.

The session will be chaired by Sophie Leonard, director of programmes at Minnow Films.

Sophie joined Minnow Films in 2016 to look after the hit constructed factual series SAS: Who Dares Wins, which returned this year as one of Channel 4's highest rating factual shows, consolidating at over 3.5 million. Sophie also was executive producer on the Grierson and Broadcast Award-nominated Valley Cops as well as Grierson-nominated Sue Perkins and the Chimp Sanctuary and Children Who Kill with Susanna Reid

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.