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Helen Nightingale

Head of Factual & Factual Entertainment Commissioning, UKTV

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 brand new hit 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.