Andy Rowe
Andy Rowe
Executive Producer and Showrunner
Andy is a versatile, successful entertainment, comedy and factual Producer with over 20 years experience as a showrunner. He is a consistent business winner turning new ideas into pilots, commissions and re-commissions. Andy has a strong track record in setting up, producing and launching major international formats drawing on expert insight in performance & music, comedy, reality, adventure, gameshows, quiz, observational comedy and hidden camera. From the epic and the ambitious to the low-key and the quick turnaround, Andy ensures amazing ideas become fantastic shows.
He is a Developer and Producer of significant primetime projects for many of the major broadcasters and SVODs – in the UK and in the USA – and, although he is an inspiring team leader, manager and astute decision-maker, he loves rolling his sleeves up and running projects from the ground up. He is a hands-on creative and adept writer – skilled in scripting, location and studio production and post-production.
With considerable flying time in a variety of different comedy, entertainment and factual disciplines, Andy is strong on development and budgeting - collaborative, intuitive and unremittingly enthusiastic. He also has an extensive contacts network, with good relationships with commissioning editors and artists’ agents.
In addition to his work as a freelance Executive Producer, Andy has also been Head of Entertainment for Wall To Wall Television (part of Warner Bros Int’l) and runs a boutique format and production label,
Wonderkid Productions, with fellow Exec. Tom Blakeson.
Above all Andy is passionate about giving shows comedy, drama and emotion.
Key credits include:
Hannah Gadsy's Gender Agenda (Netflix US),
Eilish Up Close (BBC1),
Idris Elba Meets Paul McCartney (BBC!) and
Jennifer Saunders' Memory Lane (ITV) - all for So Television. Credits for Wall To Wall include
Mission to Mars: Astronauts of the Future (Disney+),
Little Big Shots with Dawn French, Funderdome (BBC2) and
500 Questions (ITV). For BBC Studios (Entertainment), he piloted and produced adventure game show
The Getaway Car (BBC1) and for Remedy Productions he Execed hit C4 quiz show
Fifteen to One. During a prolific 7-year tenure at Initial (Endemol), he EPed 6 series of the much-loved
Total Wipeout (BBC1),
Golden Balls (ITV),
101 Ways To Leave a Gameshow (BBC1),
Prize Island (ITV),
The Kids Are All Right (BBC1),
For the Rest of Your Life (ITV),
Spin Star (ITV) and
Divided (C4 and ITV). Earlier Series Producer credits include
The House of Tiny Tearaways (Outline Productions for BBC3),
National Lottery Jet Set, National Lottery Come & Have a Go, Weakest Link & Weakest Link Celebrity Specials, The Other Half, Winton’s Wonderland and
Didn't They Do Well! (all BBC Ent. for BBC1). For Watchmaker Productions (Clive James), Andy produced
The Clive James Millennium Show, Clive James Meets Barbara Streisand, Monday Night Clive, You’re Oonly Human With Jeff Green and Collins & Maconie's Movie Club, all for ITV.
Working across Entertainment Development for most of his career, David is quite literally a One Stop Shop in terms of Creative Thinking. He has held numerous Senior Roles in the industry from Head of Development with Unique Television, Talent Television and WhizzKid Entertainment to Head of Entertainment with At It Productions and Eyeworks UK and 19TV where he worked with the Creative Team on Pop Idol. He took the role of Executive Editor for In-House Development at the BBC responsible for the teams in London and Manchester.
His skill set is to be able to focus on a slate or on a brief and inspire a team - however many that may be - to take an idea from the creative brainstorm to the commissioning pitch with a relentless passion and energy for the process of creating and imagining formats. His ability to inspire is in his DNA. In just the last 3 years he has driven the creative strategy behind 3 different development teams with 3 clients - all of which have resulted in commissioner level run-throughs and funded pilots.
His work in the Indie sector has meant he has established and maintained a strong relationship with Commissioning Teams throughout. In Consultancy he now works with companies here in the UK (England & Scotland) Ireland, The Netherlands, Canada and the USA either with the existing teams or on a project specific basis.
Clients include: BEEZR Studios/ITV & BBC, Trilogy Media/RTE Dublin, Two Rivers/ ITV, BBC & C4, Motion GroupM / Bell Media Canada, Bandicoot Scotland/BBC, Potato/ITV. He has worked directly with International Distributors Fremantle Global.
In the last 3 years David has partnered very successfully with Danny Rawling at Two Rivers, BEEZR Studios, Potato and Trilogy Media taking their formats through to pilot stage with broadcasters and landing commissions in Ireland via RTE.
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