Diederick Santer

Managing Director

Diederick Santer is Managing Director of Lovely Day.

After four years as an actor, Diederick began his TV career began in 1996 as a freelance script reader for United Productions before becoming Script Editor on the first two series of Where The Heart Is. At Granada, he script-edited the first two series of A&E and The Last Train.

He joined BBC Drama Production in 2000, where he developed and produced the first three series of Debbie Horsfield’s hit hairdressing drama, Cutting It. Diederick produced The Taming Of The Shrew and David Nicholls’ Bafta-nominated retelling of Much Ado About Nothing, and his 2006 production of Jane Eyre was a huge audience and critical hit, gaining nine Emmy nominations. From October 2006 until March 2010 he was Executive Producer, EastEnders, delivering a total of 736 episodes.

In May 2010 he left BBC and joined forces with Kudos Film and Television Productions to set up Lovely Day, his own drama production company. Lovely Day has a variety of drama and comedy projects in development with BBC, ITV, C4 and Sky.