TRC is hosting a UKTV Commissioner Event on Thursday 20th March 2025 from 9:00am at CitizenM, Glasgow.
The second session in this year’s Commissioner Events series, the event will feature Helen Nightingale, Head of Factual and Factual Entertainment Commissioning at UKTV.
If you’re working in an independent production company in the Nations and Regions, this is an opportunity not to be missed.
Booking is essential, reserve your place here.
There will also be the opportunity for one-to-one commissioner meetings. These meetings are extremely popular and will be assigned based on Commissioner approval.
If you wish to register your interest for these, please follow the link above.
Helen Nightingale
Head of Factual and Factual Entertainment Commissioning
Helen is Head of Factual and Factual Entertainment Commissioning at UKTV where her commissions span across channels U&Dave, U&W, U&YESTERDAY and U&GOLD. Since joining the multi-channel broadcaster as Commissioning Editor in 2015, Helen has commissioned a wide range of popular titles including “Emma Willis: Delivering Babies” and “Gemma and Gorka: Life Behind The Lens” for U&W, “French and Saunders: Funny Women” and “Paul Whitehouse’s Sketch Show Years” for U&GOLD, “Secrets of the London Underground” and “Find It Fix It Flog It” for U&YESTERDAY, and new series “Pete Wicks for Dogs’ Sake” for U&W and “Guy Martin’s Proper Jobs” for U&Dave.
Prior to joining UKTV, Helen was Head of Factual at Gogglebox Entertainment where she executive produced “Singing In The Rainforest” for Watch and “Young War Widows” for ITV. Before that, she was Head of Popular Factual at IWC Media executive producing shows such as “Location, Location, Location” for Channel 4, and “Extreme Fishing” with Robson for Channel 5.