People

Richard McKerrow - Creative Director

Richard McKerrow set up Love Productions in October 2004. He has conceived and executive produced many of Love Productions’ critically acclaimed factual series and formats including the award-winning series The Baby Borrowers and Britain’s Missing Top Model; Young Mums Mansion, Famous Rich and Homeless, Famous Rich and Jobless, My Life As An Animal, Tower Block of Commons, Kidnapped By The Kids, The Great British Bake-Off, Girls Hit South Africa, Young Autistic and Stagestruck and Famous Rich and In The Slums. 

The shows and formats have sold around Europe and the world and Richard executive produced an American version of The Baby Borrowers for NBC and will be producing a brand new series of Kidnapped By The Kids for the OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) in the US this year. Love Productions also produce high end documentaries and entertainment shows. 

Richard McKerrow began his career as a print journalist for The Nation magazine in New York. He also worked for Yorkshire Television in their Documentaries and Current Affairs department as a producer/director before joining Channel 4 in 1997 as a Commissioning Editor for Education. Before he started Love Productions, he was Creative Director and Managing Director of Maverick Television (2002-2004).

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.

Kieran Smith – Executive Producer

Kieran is Love West’s Executive Producer and is responsible for overseeing all Love West programmes as well as taking a lead role in development. He joined Love in 2007 and series produced the hugely popular and critically acclaimed Young Mums’ Mansion. He has since gone on to series produce My Life As An Animal for BBC 3 and series edit Young Mums’ Mansion: The Dads Arrive. Most recently he has been the Executive Producer on Wags, Kids and World Cup Dreams (BBC3), Spitfire Women (BBC4/BBC2) and When Teenage Meets Old Age (BBC2).

Kieran started out as a researcher in 1999 working at BBC Bristol on 999. With one series under his belt he decided to go freelance and quickly established a reputation as a producer of creative and imaginative programmes. He has subsequently worked at Maverick Television, RDF Media, Granada and 3BM producing a wide range of documentary, factual entertainment and features programmes including 10 Years Younger, The Chain, Embarrassing Bodies, Poor Little Rich Girls and Make Me a Grown Up.

Benny Reuven – Senior Vice President of Love Productions USA.

In 2011 Benny joined Love Productions as the first ever Senior Vice President of Love Productions USA. Based in Los Angeles, Benny oversees the development of original content & formats for the US market and works to secure US network and cable commissions based on Love’s existing UK and worldwide formats.

With nine years of experience in the US television industry, Benny has developed and produced content for many of the broadcast and major cable networks. Some of his credits include: Farmer Wants a Wife (CW), Kid Nation (CBS), Miami Ink (TLC), Trading Spouses (FOX) and a number of Dr. Phil Primetime Specials (CBS).

Prior to joining Love Productions USA, Benny was a programming and development executive at OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network and played an integral part in helping to launch the network.

Benny was the OWN executive on Love’s ‘Kidnapped By The Kids USA’, which was the first format that ever aired on the network (launch day - January 1, 2011). It was during his time at OWN that Benny first crossed paths with Love Productions.

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.

Mark Rochell - Head of Finance

Mark Rochell joined Love Productions in September 2009 as the new Head of Finance with responsibility for overseeing and controlling all of Love London and Love Bristol financial activity.

Mark began his career in 1999 as an Assistant Production Accountant for the drama producer, Hewland International Ltd. Throughout his career Mark has worked within all aspects of the production finance function, taking a lead role in producing shows such as Sky 1’s Dream Team and Mile High, and the prime time ITV dramas Daylight Robbery and Can’t Buy Me Love. He became Financial Controller of Hewland International Ltd in 2006 leading the company into a highly successful period of financial growth.

Mark has been a fully qualified member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants since 2004.