Kirsty Hanson is an experienced Commissioning Editor and Executive Producer with a raft of high-profile primetime series to her name from popular factual and documentary to formats and features. Kirsty has managed major international brands, series with ambitious scale and extreme environments as well as sensitive and compliance-heavy series.

Since joining UKTV in 2018, Kirsty has commissioned shows including Alex Jones: Making Babies, Special Ops: Crime Squad UK, At Home with Katherine Ryan, Blackadder: A Cunning Story and Blackadder: The Lost Pilot, Back from the Dead: Who Kidnapped Me? and Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out. 

Prior to UKTV, Kirsty was a Commissioning Editor at BBC Worldwide, where commissions include Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond The Lobby, Meet The Humans with Michael Mosley, Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week, The Secret Helpers, all for BBC2. Other freelance credits include The Hoarder Next Door, The Restaurant Man, How Not To Get Old, Would Like To Meet, What Not To Wear, Antiques Uncovered with Lucy Worsley and Turn Back Your Body Clock.