Kelly Webb-Lamb Named as Managing Director of Shine TV
25th Sep 2013
Shine Group has announced that Kelly Webb-Lamb has been promoted to Managing Director, Shine TV.
Webb-Lamb’s move comes after eighteen months as Creative Director, Shine TV in which she has grown the company’s production slate through new launches and successful returning series.
These have included Britain’s Best Bakery, (which has been re-commissioned by ITV1 and successfully adapted in France), Jewish Mum of the Year for Channel 4, Nursing the Nation for ITV1, Channel 5′s popular returning Eddie Stobart:Trucks and Trailers, (now in its fifth series) and Sky 1’s Ashley Banjo’s Street Crew. Recent commissions include the forthcoming Ashley Banjo’s Big Town Dance for Sky 1, ITV1’s Saturday Farm with Dick and James Strawbridge and a range of high-profile documentaries including Karaoke Nights, part of the Up All Night season announced by Channel 4 earlier this week and Idris Elba: King of Speed, a co-production with Shine North, for BBC 2.
Webb-Lamb originally joined Shine TV in March 2012 from her role as Director of Factual Programmes at Princess Productions as part of a re-structure of the UK based Shine Group production companies that saw Shine TV move from multi-genre production to a focus on factual, factual entertainment and features genres. Whilst at Princess, Webb-Lamb was responsible for a new slate of popular factual series and served as Executive Producer on Sky 1’s Got To Dance. Prior to this she exec-produced on a number of factual shows for various companies including Gordon Ramsay: Cook along Live and Ramsay’s Great British Nightmare for Channel 4 and BBC 2’s Mary Queen of Charity Shops. Prior to this she was Series Editor of the third and fourth series of The Apprentice, taking the series successfully to BBC 1.
Chief Executive Shine TV and Princess Productions, Henrietta Conrad said: “Kelly has done an exceptional job in delivering brilliant popular factual programmes to a range of broadcasters over the last eighteen months and has a bulging development slate which promises so much going into next year. It is credit to her that Shine TV is in such great shape, the promotion is richly deserved and I look forward to continuing to work with her.”
Kelly Webb-Lamb said: “I am really proud of what we have achieved at Shine TV in the past 18 months. We are in a good place with programmes in production for all of the major broadcasters, and more to come. I’ve got a fantastic team around me and together we are going to continue to grow the company and to have fun as we do it. I am delighted to be taking up the mantle of MD and am really looking forward to what the future will bring.”
