People

Andrew Newman – Chief Executive

Andrew Newman started out in television as a runner on The Big Breakfast before going on to work on some landmark entertainment and comedy shows including The Word and Brass Eye.

Paul Sandler – Managing Director

Paul Sandler joined Objective Productions as Managing Director in January 2005. He was previously Production Director at Planet 24 where he was a member of the core team behind The Big Breakfast and Survivor

Michael Vine – Joint Managing Director

Michael Vine, as well as being a co-founder of Objective Productions which he set up with Andrew O’Connor in 1996, also heads up Objective Talent Management and Michael Vine Associates.

Stuart Duthie – Finance Director

Stuart Duthie trained at a City based chartered accountancy practice. His last 5 years were spent specialising in the media sector. During this time he led teams providing consultancy services to companies operating in the television production, distribution markets…

Debi Roach – Head of Production

Debi Roach joined Objective Productions as Head of Production in 2005. She started her 15-year television career with the Walt Disney Company then moved on to The Big Breakfast at Planet 24 for 3 years, including supervising production on the show’s marathon 12-hour Millennium Show…

Greg Allon – Head of Legal and Business Affairs

Greg Allon oversees Objective Productions’ legal and business affairs activities, and the management of the company’s rights. He joined Objective in 2008, having previously worked as Head of Legal and Business Affairs at Princess Productions, and as Business Affairs Manager at Endemol…

Phil Clarke – Head of Comedy and Comedy Entertainment

Phil Clarke joined Objective Productions as Head of Comedy, setting up the comedy department in spring 2003, after producing the first series of Peep Show in 2002. The department has since made numerous award-winning series for Channel 4 and the BBC…

Jenny Hay – Production Executive, Comedy

Jenny Hay joined Objective Productions 5 years ago as Production Executive in the comedy department, and has worked on some of Objective’s biggest comedy shows including: Peep Show, Star Stories , Pete Versus Life, Kevin Bishop Show, Reggie Perrin and Meet The Parents.

Ruth Emerson – Production Executive, Entertainment

Ruth Emerson is Production Executive for Entertainment and oversees the production of programmes such as Derren Brown, John Bishop’s Britain and Gastronuts…

Paul Murray – Head of Objective Scotland

Paul Murray is Head of Objective Scotland. Before taking this position, he was most recently Creative Director at STV, where he was responsible for coming up with BBC daytime’s hit Antiques Roadtrip.

Gillian Pauling – Production Executive, Objective Scotland

Gillian Pauling joined Objective Productions in March 2011 as Production Executive of the newly opened Scotland office. Gillian started her career as a trainee Production Assistant at Scottish Television working in all genres, latterly specialising in live News and Current Affairs…

Ben Farrell – Head of Comedy

Ben Farrell is Objective Productions’ Head of Comedy and is the Executive Producer of Pete Versus Life. As well as developing new comedies, Ben’s other credits include Reggie Perrin & The Peter Serafinowicz Show for the BBC, Mike Strutter for MTV and TV Heaven Telly Hell for Channel 4.

Nathan Eastwood – Head of Comedy Entertainment

Nathan Eastwood joined Objective Productions in 2007 stepping into the role of Head of Comedy Entertainment in 2009 overseeing a range of productions while developing new formats…

Adam Adler – Executive Producer

Adam Adler joined Objective Productions in 2007 from Channel 4 where he was a Commissioning Editor for Entertainment, having previously worked in development at Endemol and Granada…

Anthony Owen – Head of Magic

Anthony Owen is Objective Productions’ Head of Magic. He is the Executive Producer of Derren Brown, The Real Hustle and all of Objective’s magic programming, including their shows featuring Barry and Stuart, Pete Firman, Jonathan Goodwin and Alistair Cook…

Paul Gilheany – Executive Producer

Paul Gilheany started his career in 1996 as a graduate trainee at Planet 24 and since then has worked on a wide range of programming from comedy and entertainment to documentary and factual entertainment as well as co-funding and selling his own production company…