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Richard McKerrow - Creative Director

Richard is Love's senior creative. He executive produces many of our hit shows - The Baby Borrowers in the UK and the US, Young Mums' Mansion, Filthy Rich and Homeless and the upcoming Boys and Girls Alone. He has also executive produced all of our high profile single documentaries.

He began his career as a print journalist for The Nation magazine in New York before joining Yorkshire Television's Documentaries department on the First Tuesday team. He was a Producer/Director on Channel 4's The World This Week and ITV's current affairs series 3D, and directed the RTS-nominated Miss Popular's Crack City.

In 1997 he joined Channel 4 as Deputy Commissioning Editor for Education where he commissioned features and documentary series such as Ramsay's Boiling Point and the award-winning Embarrassing Illnesses, and campaigns and seasons. In 1999 he became Editor of Education and commissioned factual entertainment series Living by the Book and Perfect Match, ground-breaking series about disability such as the controversial Freak Out and Celebrity Blind Man's Buff and the agenda-setting health series Joined: The World of Siamese Twins and Blinded. His final commission was the award-winning The Day I'll Never Forget directed by Kim Longinotto, a film about the experiences of young women undergoing female circumcision.

In 2002 he joined Maverick TV and as Creative Director and latterly Managing Director, he led an increase in turnover from £2million to £7million, winning a spread of commissions across the UK broadcasters. They included Ten Years Younger, Born Too Soon - a series of films about premature babies, Tainted Love and Sex Bomb - two films looking at the rising problem of sexual disease amongst teenagers, the award-winning Bollywood Star, Happy Birthday Thalidomide, Meet the In-Laws, Cops and Docs on the Box, Million Pound Hoax, Premiership's Greatest and Fat Chance. He executive produced all these series and films. He also developed Maverick's commercial strategy and secured commissions overseas for Million Pound Hoax (NBC) and Ten Years Younger (TLC).

He left to set up Love in October 2004.

Anna Beattie - Joint Creative Director

Anna Beattie is joint creative head of Love, with particular responsibility for ideas. She has devised and developed many of the company's stand out hits, including The Baby Borrowers, Filthy Rich and Homeless and Young Mums' Mansion.

She started as a runner at LWT and joined BBC Manchester in 1992 to work on the "yoof" current affairs series.  She stayed for 6 years, during which time she worked on all the department's output, from Rough Guide to the World and The Travel Show, to theme nights and archive series. In 1998 she left to join Channel 4 as a deputy commissioning editor in the Features department. In 1999 she became editor and was responsible for the early series of Grand Designs and Location, Location, Location and the highest rating series of Deals on Wheels and Driven, as well as archive singles. In 2001 she left to join RDF Media where she secured the commission of three new formats. In 2002 she went freelance and worked principally with Maverick Television, where she devised the C4 format Ten Years Younger and developed Bollywood Star and The Chain, as well as setting up a department making low budget prime time history series for Five.

Andrew Brann - Managing Director

Andrew Brann has twenty five years of commercial, legal and strategic experience in the television industry, working for major broadcasters including Channel 4 where he was Head of Business Affairs, and within the independent production sector where he has been Commercial Director of Television Corporation plc and Managing Director of Gecko Productions. He is a member of Pact Council.

Andrew started as a solicitor in the City of London and was the legal adviser at ATV Music, publisher of the Beatles catalogue, before joining ITV Sport where he looked after all ITV's sports deals including boxing negotiations with Don King. He joined Channel 4 in a commercial role as a Programme Acquisition Executive before becoming Head of Co-productions and ultimately Head of Business Affairs and Programme Finance responsible for all of Channel 4's commercial deals from cricket to Big Brother.

David Dehaney - Executive Producer

Dave joined Love Productions in 2005. He has produced/directed some of Love's most successful programmes including Me and My Mum, Can't Stop Eating and Wait til your Father Gets Home, a feature length documentary due for broadcast on Channel 4 in 2008.

He series edited the first series of The Baby Borrowers and executive produced The Baby Borrowers on Holiday. He is currently the Series Editor of our ground-breaking documentary series Boys and Girls scheduled to go out on Channel Four later this year.

David set up his own company Blueboy Television in the 1990's producing pop promos, commercials, documentaries, a live award ceremony show and the cult music series Flying. In 1997 David sold Blueboy and worked at Granada, Ideal World (Driven), the BBC (What Not To Wear, Out of Africa' Black Heroes and Icons, The Nations Favourite Food), RDF (Wife Swap) and Maverick (Bollywood Star).

Elliot Reed - Executive Producer / Series Producer / Director

Elliot joined Love Productions in 2006 and has been at the helm of two of Love's most successful documentary series. He was series producer on the Broadcast and RTS-nominated BBC Three series Filthy Rich and Homeless. Most recently, Elliot series edited Young Mums' Mansion - BBC Three's second most successful factual series to date.

Prior to joining Love, Elliot worked for BBC, ITV, Channel Four and Five on a diverse range of documentary, factual entertainment and music projects including Brat Camp Unseen, Band Aid 20, Freaky Eaters, Hip Hop Nights: Selling Sex?, and Pet Plastic Surgery. In 2003 he spent a year working as a producer/director in New York for Lion TV on the very first season of the long-running series, History Detectives. He also spent a year directing music performances on location around the world for Top of the Pops.

Stephen Franklin - Executive Producer

Stephen set up Love's Bristol office, Love West, in August 2007. Since then, he's co-executive produced BBC's Young Mums' Mansion, Britain's Youngest Grannies and My Life As A Pig, as well overseeing the reversioned documentary series True Story, Mega Structures and Ice Truckers for Five.

Stephen started out as a secretary for Janet Street Porter at the BBC. She offered him a job as a runner on youth current affairs series Reportage in BBC Manchester and he stayed for the next 12 years. During that time he worked on a huge variety of programming, including Rough Guide to the World, Weird Night, Best Night and The Longest Walk with Fiona Campbell. Producer credits include the RTS nominated documentary series Tribe, the RTS nominee When Disco Ruled the World and the BAFTA nominated I Love the 70s. After going freelance in 2004, Stephen made programmes on Star Wars for Sky and Lucasfilm, a special for C4 about James Bond and also series produced UK Music Hall of Fame. He arrived at Love in 2006 to series edit produce The Baby Borrowers: Friends & Family and executive produce The True Story for Five, before setting up Love's Bristol office.

Richard Bowron - Head of Development

Richard joined Love from Shine where he was Head of Entertainment Development for two years. Prior to that Richard ran the formats and features development team at the BBC.

Richard started out in television with his own company, Eye to Eye Productions. His first commission was Food Fights, a 1994 edition of QED on BBC One which got 7m viewers. In the years that followed Richard was a producer and series producer for various companies, including Yorkshire Television, Darlow Smithson, BBC and RDF.

Richard's credits in production and development include Most Annoying... (BBC Three), Musicool (C4), Camera, Action, The Queen (ITV1) Spending Other People's Money (BBC One), The Nation's Favourite Food (BBC Two), Moving Day (ITV1) and Driven (C4).

Erika Leonard - Head of Production

Since her first job at the National Film and Television School shipping camera parts to the Kalahari, Head of Production Erika Leonard has served time at major independents and the BBC. Working as Head of Production at Mentorn Films, Hatrick Productions and Sky Vegas and as a production executive in BBC entertainment and Endemol she has worked across most TV genres including drama, entertainment, comedy, music and factual entertainment. Her long list of credits include: Parkinson, Royal Variety Show, Later with Jools Holland, Bodies, Have I Got News for You, The Eurovision Song Contest, Fonejacker, Armstrong and Miller, 01 for London, Challenge Anneka, BAFTA Film and Television Awards, Vodafone Live Music Awards and the UK Music Hall of Fame.

Tracey Oakley - Head of Finance

Tracey Oakley joined Love as Financial Controller in 2006 and is now Head of Finance. She has seen the company go through significant growth as turnover has increased ten-fold in just over 2 years. She manages our team of Production Accountants and maintains and presents all of Love's financial reporting on both sides of the Atlantic.

Tracey started as a Production Accountant in 1995 and joined Absolutely Productions in 2006 working across a range of productions including The Jack Docherty Show, Armstrong & Miller, Trigger Happy (all for Channel 4) and Barry Welsh is Coming for HTV Wales. From 2000 she worked as a freelancer on 140 shows of V Graham Norton Show, Sunday, Station Jim, The Frank Skinner Show, The American Sketch Show and Shane.

Kate Mitchell – Commercial Consultant

Kate Mitchell has worked with Love Productions since its formation in 2004. Having helped set the company up, she now acts as a Commercial Consultant. With a particular focus on international tv sales and format distribution, Kate works alongside the Managing Director to fully exploit the intellectual property rights in the company’s creative output.

Kate began her television career in 1987 working as a production secretary for the independent production company, Best Endeavours Ltd. Since that time she has worked for various independents as a freelance Production Manager, and after spending nine years at Channel Four as a Programme Finance Executive, ran her own Brighton-based TV production company, Dual Purpose Productions Ltd with business partner Belinda Giles. For the past five years, Kate has worked as a TV Business Consultant with a number of tv production companies