Celia Taylor
Head of Factual and Features
Sky Entertainment
Celia Taylor started her career working on Alas Smith and Jones and worked her way up through shows like J’Accuse (BAFTA for Best Arts programme) and The Movie Show to be a Producer on The Real Holiday Show, Deals on Wheels and Driven and a variety of documentaries all for C4. She then joined the BBC as a Commissioning Editor for Factual, initially commissioning and Exec Producing shows such as Delia, Neighbours At War and Would Like To Meet on BBC1 and 2. She added BBC3 Factual to her responsibilities and commissioned break out hits and award winning documentaries (BAFTA for Factual Newcomer) such as Spendaholics, The Trouble with Black Men, Who Rules the Roost, 18 With a Bullet and Country Strife. She also commissioned innovative multi-platform properties Celebdaq and Fightbox. Success on BBC2 came in the shape of Country House, Superhomes and a BAFTA for Innovation for the comedy series Doubletake. She also created the BBC3 documentary strand Fresh for new directing talent as well as kick starting the Mischief documentary strand.
She then joined Virgin Media TV as Channel Controller for Trouble and Challenge and quickly took on Bravo as well. She commissioned some of the channels most successful Entertainment and Factual shows and broke drama on Trouble. Trouble was also the first TV channel to have a UGC social networking site in the UK and was nominated for RTS Innovation Award. Celia then went on to become Director of Programmes and launch the first Virgin branded TV channel in Freeview and Pay to critical success.
She is currently Head of Factual and Features for Sky where she has commissioned Pineapple Dance Studios, Ross Kemp Middle East and Flying Beasts with David Attenborough.
Celia Taylor will be at the following events:
Who's Who - Wednesday 04 November 2009, 4:00PM, HUBS C
Commissioning Panel: Digital Channels - Thursday 05 November 2009, 4:30PM, HUBS C