Louise Burgess is Acquisitions and Programme Director for Milkshake!, Channel 5’s pre-school programming block. In this role, Louise oversees all editorial elements of programme acquisitions, original commissions and shortform, from proposal stage through to channel delivery and transmission, ensuring the creative quality of programming content as a commissioning executive. 

Louise has worked as an Executive Producer across both animation and live action series, including The World According to Grandpa, Meet the Experts, Reu & Harper’s Wonderworld, Mimi’s World, Pop Paper City, Odo and Mixmups and is currently working across a new preschool slate including, Cooking with the Gills and Aneeshwar’s Outdoor Adventures.

Prior to Milkshake!, Louise worked as Production and Development Manager at Coolabi Group, working across a range of projects including Scream Street for CBBC, the BAFTA award-winning CBeebies series, Clangers and the internationally successful Nick Jr., Milkshake! and Sprout co-production, Poppy Cat.

Louise has produced numerous sessions at Children’s Media Conference, previously sat on the ScreenSkills Children’s TV Council and is currently Co-Chair for the Paramount employee resource group, Parenthood, that supports parents and carers to thrive in the workplace.