Max Gray Legal and Business Affairs Executive

Max began his legal career at Mishcon de Reya. From there, he decided to turn his focus to the media sector, enjoying stints at Wise Music, MCPS, Harbottle & Lewis (film/tv and music) and Audible.

Annie Lennon Legal and Business Affairs Executive

Annie joined Expectation in 2022 after beginning her legal career in private practice at Statham Gill Davies and on secondment in-house to Mercury Studios, a Universal Music Group company.

Robyn Hale In-house Production Manager

Robyn joined Expectation in 2020 as Production Manager working across entertainment shows including ‘This is My House’, ‘Redknapp’s Big Night Out’ and ‘I Literally Just Told You’

As the in-house Production Manager, she now works across both Entertainment and Factual productions.

She started her television career in 2014, working as a runner at Endemol, since then she has worked and managed many different productions and prior to joining Expectation, worked on various shows including ‘The Jump’, ‘The Real Marigold Hotel’, ‘Skin’ and ‘Win the Wilderness’

Jo Bucci Head of Production, Entertainment

Jo joined Expectation in 2017 as Production Executive and in January 2021 was appointed Head of Production, Entertainment.  She oversees productions from early budgeting and development through to delivery and transmission and is responsible for series including The Big Narstie Show, The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan and This Is My House.

Previously Jo was Production Executive at Initial working on Big Brother having worked her way from Production Manager.   As a freelance Production Manager and Line Producer she gained experience on a wide range of location, studio and live programmes for all of the major broadcasters.  Credits include Four Weddings, The Brit Awards, The British Soap Awards and Parkinson.

James Donkin Director of Development, Entertainment

Prior to his time at Expectation, James developed/co-developed new television formats including Guessable (Comedy Central), Head Hunters (BBC1), Killer Camp (ITV2 + The CW), The Hit List (BBC1), Extraordinary Escapes (C4), British Museum History Hunters (More4),  Ghost Bus Tours (ITV2), Apocalypse Wow (ITV2) and The Drugs Cafe (C4).

With a development and production career spanning over 12yrs, James was a Series Producer at TwoFour on Dolph Lundgren gameshow Take the Tower, Head of Development at Renegade Pictures (Evil Monkeys for ITV2, Used Car Wars for Dave, School of Rock CBBC and Our Wildest Dreams for C4) and co-developed and produced the RTS-Award winning Release the Hounds (ITV2, FOX), The Exit List (ITV) and Breakaway (BBC2) for Gogglebox Entertainment (now Primal Media).

Prior to that he worked in the Zodiak central development team, working on entertainment formats for its production companies across the world, including Sing If You Can (ITV1, Antena Tres Spain), The Guillotine (Telecinco Spain, TVP2 Poland), That’s My Kid (CTC Russia) and The Call (Italia 1).

He had an unusual start to his career in television, appearing in seven TV gameshows as a contestant before persuading 12 Yard Productions to accept him onto their trainee development scheme. As well as being a dad to two, former innovation consultant at WhatIf and showbiz journalist at various newspapers, he’s also a keen kick-boxer, scruffy dog-owner, quiz master, musical-lover and general games obsessive.

David Owen Conway Finance Director

David is the Finance Director at Expectation with over 15 years’ finance experience in tv, film & media.

David joined Expectation in 2017, prior to which he held various Head of Finance roles including at Elton John’s production company Rocket Pictures (Gnomeo & Juliet / Sherlock Gnomes) and the media financier Anton Capital (Paddington 2, Hunger Games).

David is a chartered accountant having qualified in 2006.

Louisa McKay Head of On Screen Talent

As Head of Talent at Expectation, Louisa heads up the team of bookers in delivering high profile talent on shows like This Is MY House (BBC1), Backstage with Katherine Ryan (Amazon) and daily live daytime show Steph’s Packed Lunch (C4). She also casts celebrities across several award winning productions including Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable (Dave/UK TV) and BAFTA winning shows like The Lateish Show with Mo Gilliganand The Big Narstie Show (C4). Louisa also works closely across talent-fronted programme development, sourcing new talent and helping generate talent led programme ideas.

Before joining Expectation in 2019, Louisa booked guests on Britain’s biggest shows. She kicked off her career 20 years ago on The Big Breakfast (C4) and has since secured celebrities for Would I Lie to You? (BBC1), The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C (C4), The Cube (ITV1), 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (C4), The iTunes Festival (ITV2), T4 (C4), GMTV and BBC Liquid News. She has also cast celebrity talent on a variety of major formats and international brands including: The Voice Australia, Australia’s Got Talent, Asia’s Got Talent, Celebrity Apprentice, I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and X Factor Australia.

Joe Meehan Production Accountant

Joe joined Expectation as Production Accountant in 2019, he works across all genres within the business.  He previously worked at Raw TV with a short hiatus into the film and VFX industry.

Jane Nicholson Head of Production, Factual

Jane joined Expectation’s Factual department in early 2019.  She came from Century Films, where she had been since 2001 and had become their Head of Production a couple of years later, managing their financial and business affairs, as well as overseeing all the factual and drama output of the company for a broad range of broadcasters and media companies.  This included the award-winning documentaries Feltham Sings, Mumbai High: the Musical, and the series ‘The Secret History of our Streets’ amongst many others – including labour of love The Life After.   She worked on a number of theatrical documentaries, including ‘Climate of Change’ for Participant Media, and for Film4/BFI ‘The Confessions of Thomas Quick’ which she also co-produced.

During her time at Century, she line-produced their dramas and docu-dramas, including ‘Falling Apart’ and ‘Consent’, which respectively won BAFTA and Grierson awards.

Prior to that, she spent several years producing TV commercials and non-broadcast documentary and drama, till she switched to working in television production in the mid-90s.

Amy Dallmeyer Head of Development, Entertainment

Amy began her career on Endemol’s internship programme, since then she’s held development positions at ITV Studios, Fresh One, Electric Ray, Thames and Betty, as well as working in Australia for Nine Network and comedian Chris Lilley’s production partner, Princess Pictures.

She’s developed and produced a range of programming from Married at First Sight and Travel Guides (Nine Network) to The Big Reunion (ITV2), Bad Bridesmaid (ITV2), Steps Reunion (SKY), Guess the Star (ITV), Alan Carr’s The Price is Right (C4), The Elaine Page Show (Sky Arts), The Ones to Watch: From Samsung Launching People (SKY) and most recently devised the upcoming BBC Three documentary, Joey Essex: Grief and Me.

Amy joined Expectation in early 2020 and oversees a slate which spans comedy ents, fact-ent, entertainment and reality, so far helping to bring It’s Clarkson on TV to ITV and several other yet to be announced projects to fruition.

Jackie Cooke Financial Controller

Jackie started her career at Chrysalis Entertainment as an accounts assistant and since then have worked  in various finance roles in a wide range of television companies. She found her place at Expectation  in 2019 as Financial Controller and have contributed to some of her favourite projects.

Denise Kadoo Line Producer

Denise joined Expectation in Summer 2018 as Production Manager and now Line Produces numerous productions across the comedy entertainment department, including Bafta award wining ‘The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan’.

She started her television career in 2002, working as a runner for Brighter Pictures, since then she has worked and managed many different productions and prior to joining Expectation, worked on various shows including ‘Celebrity Juice’, ‘The Jump’, ‘The Million Pound Drop’ and ‘The Only Way is Essex’.

Amy MacKinnon Senior Production Coordinator

Amy started off her TV career as a Production Management intern at Viacom. Since then she has worked across a number of different projects as a freelancer. Amy joined Expectation in 2019 and continues to support all of our productions across every genre.

Rhe-an Archibald Series Producer

Rhe-an works across development and production at Expectation. Since joining the team she has developed and series produced BAFTA- winning The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan, developed and produced BAFTA- nominated The Big Narstie Show, and helped to secure a series of Redknapp’s Weekend Warm-up after successfully series producing the pilot.

Other credits include I Can See Your Voice, Alan Carr’s Specstacular, three years at The Last Leg including their Paralympic run live from Rio and serving as a writer on numerous shows including Celebrity Big Brother.

Joe Fowler Development Executive

In his role as Development Executive, Joe has developed some of the factual team’s biggest commissions, including Travels in Trumpland with Ed Balls, Travels in Euroland with Ed Balls and upcoming documentary, The Essex Lorry Deaths.

Prior to joining Expectation, Joe worked across development and production at several of the UK’s leading production companies, including Blast! Films, Century Films, Two Four and Twenty Twenty. His production credits include the Emmy Award-winning Educating Yorkshire, Reported Missing, Saving Lives at Sea, First Dates, the BAFTA-nominated The Choir: Sing While You Work and Epidemic: When Britain Fought AIDS.

Simon Hulme Head of Legal and Business Affairs

Simon began his legal career in private practice at Reed Smith. Soon after qualification he moved in-house advising across multiple genres first at Wall to Wall and then at Studio Lambert. Simon joined Expectation in 2021.

Sophie Conlon Development Script Editor

Sophie joined Expectation in 2018 assisting the factual department. She has since moved over to scripted and works across the development slate as a development script editor. Prior to joining Expectation, Sophie trained and worked as a classical singer before embarking on a career in TV, starting out as a part of the Big Brother team at Initial.

Anna Bonaddio Factual Talent Manager

Anna is Expectation’s factual talent manager. She brings the best TV talent to join our award-winning team. She is committed to supporting up-and-coming talent, collaborating with a wide range of factual talent schemes and setting up mentoring relationships for the prestigious Edinburgh TV Festival’s ‘Ones to Watch’, which kickstarted her own career when she joined the ’96 cohort.

She started at the BBC, researching for Jane Treays and discovering director Joe Wright for ‘10×10’ new directors, then progressed into developing factual formats and documentaries for indies including Keo, Blast, Renegade and Wall to Wall: her commissions include Channel 4’s long-running ‘Child Genius’ series and the Grierson-nominated ‘Excluded: Kicked out of School’.

Anna is from a diverse socio-economic background. Improving inclusion and equality of opportunity in our industry, and sharing her network, is at the heart of what she does.

Kellie Turner Executive Assistant

Previous to Expectation Kellie spent 8 years working alongside Tim Hincks at Endemol – she is a founding member of the Expectation team and has been with Peter and Tim since the very start!

Annette Galloway Accounts Assistant

Annette joined Expectation in Sept 2020 she previously spent the last 25 years working at the BBC for Music & Arts, Presentation, Children’s Television, News gathering and finally for the BBC International News Bureaux.

Ben Wicks Creative Director, Entertainment

After joining Expectation 5 years ago Wicks has overseen the creation, development, and production of a great many shows, including: double BAFTA, and RTS winning: The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan, RTS and BAFTA winning The Big Narstie Show, RTS winning Munya Chawawa’s Race Around Europe, 500 episodes and counting of BAFTA nominated Channel 4’s daytime show Steph’s Packed Lunch, Broadcast-Digital winning Mel Giedroyc’s Unforgivable and most recently ITV’s brand new Joel Dommett fronted game show In With A Shout. He also oversees BBC 1’s This Is My House, Channel 4’s I Literally Just Told You.

Prior to joining Expectation he was executive producer of the multi-BAFTA nominated The Last Leg, overseeing the transformation of the show; from modest ratings to audiences of over 2 million, stellar ratings for a live topical comedy show. Other credits include Exec Producing Alan Carr’s Specstacular, Series Producing Harry Hill’s Tea Time, producing Have I Got News For You and A League of Their Own, Frank Skinner’s Opinionated and BAFTA-winning The Revolution Will Be Televised.

Colin Barr Creative Director, Factual & Factual Drama

Colin Barr is a BAFTA and Emmy-winning Executive Producer/Director who works across Factual and Drama. Previously, he was Creative Director at Minnow Films and an Executive Producer at the BBC.

In Factual, his credits include the BAFTA-winning series’, “Our War” and “Life and Death Row”, as well as the critically-acclaimed, “The Detectives”, “American Justice”, “How to Die: Simon’s Choice” and “Abused: The Untold Story”. Prior to that, he won an Emmy as a Director for “Space Dive”, the feature documentary Red Bull Stratos, Felix Baumgartner’s record-beating freefall from the edge of space.

More recently, he was responsible for Channel Four’s hit format, “SAS: Who Dares Wins”, which sold globally and is now in its fourth series.

In Drama, he Executive Produced BBC One’s BAFTA-winning film, “Damilola: Our Loved Boy” and the BAFTA-nominated series, “Our World War”. He also oversaw the BBC Three dramas, “My Murder” and “Glasgow Girls” and Channel Four’s, “The Watchman” and “Shamed”.

Nerys Evans Creative Director, Comedy

Nerys Evans joins from Channel 4 where she was Deputy Head of Comedy. She spent the past seven years at the Broadcaster where she commissioned award-winning series including: Catastrophe, Flowers, Derry Girls, Damned, Scrotal Recall and The Windsors. Before that she worked for BBC Comedy where she Produced Miranda, Jonathan Creek and French and Saunders.

Alexia Edwards Chief Operating Officer

Alexia joined Expectation from Warner Bros Television Production UK where she was the group commercial and business affairs director for Warner’s UK television production companies, looking after the commercial exploitation and business affairs of shows like First Dates, Who Do You Think You Are? and Don’t Tell The Bride.

Prior to Warner, Alexia served as head of legal and business affairs at ITV where, over a 10-year period, she was responsible for the legal, commercial and business affairs for entertainment, comedy and kids programming across ITV’s portfolio working on shows like The Brits, X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent and I’m a Celebrity Get Me out Of Here!

She began her career as a lawyer at All3Media-owned indie Lion Television, working across the production and distribution deal terms for the firm’s programming with major international broadcasters.

Philippa Catt Director of Production

Philippa joined Expectation from Tiger Aspect Productions where she was Head of Production (& previously Production Executive) – overseeing the Tiger Comedy, Entertainment & Cave Bear Production output including Bounty Hunters, Benidorm, Mount Pleasant, Psychobitches,  Jack Whitehall’s Travel With My Father, Harry & Paul, Bad Education & Ross Kemp Extreme Worlds.  She had initially joined Tiger Aspect in 2001 as a freelance Line Producer working on shows such as  Lenny in Pieces, Harry & Paul, Benidorm, Vicar of Dibley & The Catherine Tate Show.

Philippa started her comedy journey, and first met Peter Fincham, at TalkBack Productions when she joined as Production Co-ordinator, then becoming Production Manager on Smith & Jones, They Think It’s All Over S3,  Big Train Pilot, 11 O’Clock Show, Jam & Brass Eye.

Max Gray Legal and Business Affairs Executive

Max began his legal career at Mishcon de Reya. From there, he decided to turn his focus to the media sector, enjoying stints at Wise Music, MCPS, Harbottle & Lewis (film/tv and music) and Audible.

Annie Lennon Legal and Business Affairs Executive

Annie joined Expectation in 2022 after beginning her legal career in private practice at Statham Gill Davies and on secondment in-house to Mercury Studios, a Universal Music Group company.

Robyn Hale In-house Production Manager

Robyn joined Expectation in 2020 as Production Manager working across entertainment shows including ‘This is My House’, ‘Redknapp’s Big Night Out’ and ‘I Literally Just Told You’

As the in-house Production Manager, she now works across both Entertainment and Factual productions.

She started her television career in 2014, working as a runner at Endemol, since then she has worked and managed many different productions and prior to joining Expectation, worked on various shows including ‘The Jump’, ‘The Real Marigold Hotel’, ‘Skin’ and ‘Win the Wilderness’

Jo Bucci Head of Production, Entertainment

Jo joined Expectation in 2017 as Production Executive and in January 2021 was appointed Head of Production, Entertainment.  She oversees productions from early budgeting and development through to delivery and transmission and is responsible for series including The Big Narstie Show, The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan and This Is My House.

Previously Jo was Production Executive at Initial working on Big Brother having worked her way from Production Manager.   As a freelance Production Manager and Line Producer she gained experience on a wide range of location, studio and live programmes for all of the major broadcasters.  Credits include Four Weddings, The Brit Awards, The British Soap Awards and Parkinson.

James Donkin Director of Development, Entertainment

Prior to his time at Expectation, James developed/co-developed new television formats including Guessable (Comedy Central), Head Hunters (BBC1), Killer Camp (ITV2 + The CW), The Hit List (BBC1), Extraordinary Escapes (C4), British Museum History Hunters (More4),  Ghost Bus Tours (ITV2), Apocalypse Wow (ITV2) and The Drugs Cafe (C4).

With a development and production career spanning over 12yrs, James was a Series Producer at TwoFour on Dolph Lundgren gameshow Take the Tower, Head of Development at Renegade Pictures (Evil Monkeys for ITV2, Used Car Wars for Dave, School of Rock CBBC and Our Wildest Dreams for C4) and co-developed and produced the RTS-Award winning Release the Hounds (ITV2, FOX), The Exit List (ITV) and Breakaway (BBC2) for Gogglebox Entertainment (now Primal Media).

Prior to that he worked in the Zodiak central development team, working on entertainment formats for its production companies across the world, including Sing If You Can (ITV1, Antena Tres Spain), The Guillotine (Telecinco Spain, TVP2 Poland), That’s My Kid (CTC Russia) and The Call (Italia 1).

He had an unusual start to his career in television, appearing in seven TV gameshows as a contestant before persuading 12 Yard Productions to accept him onto their trainee development scheme. As well as being a dad to two, former innovation consultant at WhatIf and showbiz journalist at various newspapers, he’s also a keen kick-boxer, scruffy dog-owner, quiz master, musical-lover and general games obsessive.

David Owen Conway Finance Director

David is the Finance Director at Expectation with over 15 years’ finance experience in tv, film & media.

David joined Expectation in 2017, prior to which he held various Head of Finance roles including at Elton John’s production company Rocket Pictures (Gnomeo & Juliet / Sherlock Gnomes) and the media financier Anton Capital (Paddington 2, Hunger Games).

David is a chartered accountant having qualified in 2006.

Louisa McKay Head of On Screen Talent

As Head of Talent at Expectation, Louisa heads up the team of bookers in delivering high profile talent on shows like This Is MY House (BBC1), Backstage with Katherine Ryan (Amazon) and daily live daytime show Steph’s Packed Lunch (C4). She also casts celebrities across several award winning productions including Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable (Dave/UK TV) and BAFTA winning shows like The Lateish Show with Mo Gilliganand The Big Narstie Show (C4). Louisa also works closely across talent-fronted programme development, sourcing new talent and helping generate talent led programme ideas.

Before joining Expectation in 2019, Louisa booked guests on Britain’s biggest shows. She kicked off her career 20 years ago on The Big Breakfast (C4) and has since secured celebrities for Would I Lie to You? (BBC1), The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C (C4), The Cube (ITV1), 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (C4), The iTunes Festival (ITV2), T4 (C4), GMTV and BBC Liquid News. She has also cast celebrity talent on a variety of major formats and international brands including: The Voice Australia, Australia’s Got Talent, Asia’s Got Talent, Celebrity Apprentice, I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and X Factor Australia.

Joe Meehan Production Accountant

Joe joined Expectation as Production Accountant in 2019, he works across all genres within the business.  He previously worked at Raw TV with a short hiatus into the film and VFX industry.

Jane Nicholson Head of Production, Factual

Jane joined Expectation’s Factual department in early 2019.  She came from Century Films, where she had been since 2001 and had become their Head of Production a couple of years later, managing their financial and business affairs, as well as overseeing all the factual and drama output of the company for a broad range of broadcasters and media companies.  This included the award-winning documentaries Feltham Sings, Mumbai High: the Musical, and the series ‘The Secret History of our Streets’ amongst many others – including labour of love The Life After.   She worked on a number of theatrical documentaries, including ‘Climate of Change’ for Participant Media, and for Film4/BFI ‘The Confessions of Thomas Quick’ which she also co-produced.

During her time at Century, she line-produced their dramas and docu-dramas, including ‘Falling Apart’ and ‘Consent’, which respectively won BAFTA and Grierson awards.

Prior to that, she spent several years producing TV commercials and non-broadcast documentary and drama, till she switched to working in television production in the mid-90s.

Amy Dallmeyer Head of Development, Entertainment

Amy began her career on Endemol’s internship programme, since then she’s held development positions at ITV Studios, Fresh One, Electric Ray, Thames and Betty, as well as working in Australia for Nine Network and comedian Chris Lilley’s production partner, Princess Pictures.

She’s developed and produced a range of programming from Married at First Sight and Travel Guides (Nine Network) to The Big Reunion (ITV2), Bad Bridesmaid (ITV2), Steps Reunion (SKY), Guess the Star (ITV), Alan Carr’s The Price is Right (C4), The Elaine Page Show (Sky Arts), The Ones to Watch: From Samsung Launching People (SKY) and most recently devised the upcoming BBC Three documentary, Joey Essex: Grief and Me.

Amy joined Expectation in early 2020 and oversees a slate which spans comedy ents, fact-ent, entertainment and reality, so far helping to bring It’s Clarkson on TV to ITV and several other yet to be announced projects to fruition.

Jackie Cooke Financial Controller

Jackie started her career at Chrysalis Entertainment as an accounts assistant and since then have worked  in various finance roles in a wide range of television companies. She found her place at Expectation  in 2019 as Financial Controller and have contributed to some of her favourite projects.

Denise Kadoo Line Producer

Denise joined Expectation in Summer 2018 as Production Manager and now Line Produces numerous productions across the comedy entertainment department, including Bafta award wining ‘The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan’.

She started her television career in 2002, working as a runner for Brighter Pictures, since then she has worked and managed many different productions and prior to joining Expectation, worked on various shows including ‘Celebrity Juice’, ‘The Jump’, ‘The Million Pound Drop’ and ‘The Only Way is Essex’.

Amy MacKinnon Senior Production Coordinator

Amy started off her TV career as a Production Management intern at Viacom. Since then she has worked across a number of different projects as a freelancer. Amy joined Expectation in 2019 and continues to support all of our productions across every genre.

Rhe-an Archibald Series Producer

Rhe-an works across development and production at Expectation. Since joining the team she has developed and series produced BAFTA- winning The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan, developed and produced BAFTA- nominated The Big Narstie Show, and helped to secure a series of Redknapp’s Weekend Warm-up after successfully series producing the pilot.

Other credits include I Can See Your Voice, Alan Carr’s Specstacular, three years at The Last Leg including their Paralympic run live from Rio and serving as a writer on numerous shows including Celebrity Big Brother.

Joe Fowler Development Executive

In his role as Development Executive, Joe has developed some of the factual team’s biggest commissions, including Travels in Trumpland with Ed Balls, Travels in Euroland with Ed Balls and upcoming documentary, The Essex Lorry Deaths.

Prior to joining Expectation, Joe worked across development and production at several of the UK’s leading production companies, including Blast! Films, Century Films, Two Four and Twenty Twenty. His production credits include the Emmy Award-winning Educating Yorkshire, Reported Missing, Saving Lives at Sea, First Dates, the BAFTA-nominated The Choir: Sing While You Work and Epidemic: When Britain Fought AIDS.

Simon Hulme Head of Legal and Business Affairs

Simon began his legal career in private practice at Reed Smith. Soon after qualification he moved in-house advising across multiple genres first at Wall to Wall and then at Studio Lambert. Simon joined Expectation in 2021.

Sophie Conlon Development Script Editor

Sophie joined Expectation in 2018 assisting the factual department. She has since moved over to scripted and works across the development slate as a development script editor. Prior to joining Expectation, Sophie trained and worked as a classical singer before embarking on a career in TV, starting out as a part of the Big Brother team at Initial.

Anna Bonaddio Factual Talent Manager

Anna is Expectation’s factual talent manager. She brings the best TV talent to join our award-winning team. She is committed to supporting up-and-coming talent, collaborating with a wide range of factual talent schemes and setting up mentoring relationships for the prestigious Edinburgh TV Festival’s ‘Ones to Watch’, which kickstarted her own career when she joined the ’96 cohort.

She started at the BBC, researching for Jane Treays and discovering director Joe Wright for ‘10×10’ new directors, then progressed into developing factual formats and documentaries for indies including Keo, Blast, Renegade and Wall to Wall: her commissions include Channel 4’s long-running ‘Child Genius’ series and the Grierson-nominated ‘Excluded: Kicked out of School’.

Anna is from a diverse socio-economic background. Improving inclusion and equality of opportunity in our industry, and sharing her network, is at the heart of what she does.

Kellie Turner Executive Assistant

Previous to Expectation Kellie spent 8 years working alongside Tim Hincks at Endemol – she is a founding member of the Expectation team and has been with Peter and Tim since the very start!

Annette Galloway Accounts Assistant

Annette joined Expectation in Sept 2020 she previously spent the last 25 years working at the BBC for Music & Arts, Presentation, Children’s Television, News gathering and finally for the BBC International News Bureaux.

Ben Wicks Creative Director, Entertainment

After joining Expectation 5 years ago Wicks has overseen the creation, development, and production of a great many shows, including: double BAFTA, and RTS winning: The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan, RTS and BAFTA winning The Big Narstie Show, RTS winning Munya Chawawa’s Race Around Europe, 500 episodes and counting of BAFTA nominated Channel 4’s daytime show Steph’s Packed Lunch, Broadcast-Digital winning Mel Giedroyc’s Unforgivable and most recently ITV’s brand new Joel Dommett fronted game show In With A Shout. He also oversees BBC 1’s This Is My House, Channel 4’s I Literally Just Told You.

Prior to joining Expectation he was executive producer of the multi-BAFTA nominated The Last Leg, overseeing the transformation of the show; from modest ratings to audiences of over 2 million, stellar ratings for a live topical comedy show. Other credits include Exec Producing Alan Carr’s Specstacular, Series Producing Harry Hill’s Tea Time, producing Have I Got News For You and A League of Their Own, Frank Skinner’s Opinionated and BAFTA-winning The Revolution Will Be Televised.

Colin Barr Creative Director, Factual & Factual Drama

Colin Barr is a BAFTA and Emmy-winning Executive Producer/Director who works across Factual and Drama. Previously, he was Creative Director at Minnow Films and an Executive Producer at the BBC.

In Factual, his credits include the BAFTA-winning series’, “Our War” and “Life and Death Row”, as well as the critically-acclaimed, “The Detectives”, “American Justice”, “How to Die: Simon’s Choice” and “Abused: The Untold Story”. Prior to that, he won an Emmy as a Director for “Space Dive”, the feature documentary Red Bull Stratos, Felix Baumgartner’s record-beating freefall from the edge of space.

More recently, he was responsible for Channel Four’s hit format, “SAS: Who Dares Wins”, which sold globally and is now in its fourth series.

In Drama, he Executive Produced BBC One’s BAFTA-winning film, “Damilola: Our Loved Boy” and the BAFTA-nominated series, “Our World War”. He also oversaw the BBC Three dramas, “My Murder” and “Glasgow Girls” and Channel Four’s, “The Watchman” and “Shamed”.

Nerys Evans Creative Director, Comedy

Nerys Evans joins from Channel 4 where she was Deputy Head of Comedy. She spent the past seven years at the Broadcaster where she commissioned award-winning series including: Catastrophe, Flowers, Derry Girls, Damned, Scrotal Recall and The Windsors. Before that she worked for BBC Comedy where she Produced Miranda, Jonathan Creek and French and Saunders.

Alexia Edwards Chief Operating Officer

Alexia joined Expectation from Warner Bros Television Production UK where she was the group commercial and business affairs director for Warner’s UK television production companies, looking after the commercial exploitation and business affairs of shows like First Dates, Who Do You Think You Are? and Don’t Tell The Bride.

Prior to Warner, Alexia served as head of legal and business affairs at ITV where, over a 10-year period, she was responsible for the legal, commercial and business affairs for entertainment, comedy and kids programming across ITV’s portfolio working on shows like The Brits, X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent and I’m a Celebrity Get Me out Of Here!

She began her career as a lawyer at All3Media-owned indie Lion Television, working across the production and distribution deal terms for the firm’s programming with major international broadcasters.

Max Gray Legal and Business Affairs Executive

Max began his legal career at Mishcon de Reya. From there, he decided to turn his focus to the media sector, enjoying stints at Wise Music, MCPS, Harbottle & Lewis (film/tv and music) and Audible.

Annie Lennon Legal and Business Affairs Executive

Annie joined Expectation in 2022 after beginning her legal career in private practice at Statham Gill Davies and on secondment in-house to Mercury Studios, a Universal Music Group company.

Robyn Hale In-house Production Manager

Robyn joined Expectation in 2020 as Production Manager working across entertainment shows including ‘This is My House’, ‘Redknapp’s Big Night Out’ and ‘I Literally Just Told You’

As the in-house Production Manager, she now works across both Entertainment and Factual productions.

She started her television career in 2014, working as a runner at Endemol, since then she has worked and managed many different productions and prior to joining Expectation, worked on various shows including ‘The Jump’, ‘The Real Marigold Hotel’, ‘Skin’ and ‘Win the Wilderness’

Jo Bucci Head of Production, Entertainment

Jo joined Expectation in 2017 as Production Executive and in January 2021 was appointed Head of Production, Entertainment.  She oversees productions from early budgeting and development through to delivery and transmission and is responsible for series including The Big Narstie Show, The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan and This Is My House.

Previously Jo was Production Executive at Initial working on Big Brother having worked her way from Production Manager.   As a freelance Production Manager and Line Producer she gained experience on a wide range of location, studio and live programmes for all of the major broadcasters.  Credits include Four Weddings, The Brit Awards, The British Soap Awards and Parkinson.

James Donkin Director of Development, Entertainment

Prior to his time at Expectation, James developed/co-developed new television formats including Guessable (Comedy Central), Head Hunters (BBC1), Killer Camp (ITV2 + The CW), The Hit List (BBC1), Extraordinary Escapes (C4), British Museum History Hunters (More4),  Ghost Bus Tours (ITV2), Apocalypse Wow (ITV2) and The Drugs Cafe (C4).

With a development and production career spanning over 12yrs, James was a Series Producer at TwoFour on Dolph Lundgren gameshow Take the Tower, Head of Development at Renegade Pictures (Evil Monkeys for ITV2, Used Car Wars for Dave, School of Rock CBBC and Our Wildest Dreams for C4) and co-developed and produced the RTS-Award winning Release the Hounds (ITV2, FOX), The Exit List (ITV) and Breakaway (BBC2) for Gogglebox Entertainment (now Primal Media).

Prior to that he worked in the Zodiak central development team, working on entertainment formats for its production companies across the world, including Sing If You Can (ITV1, Antena Tres Spain), The Guillotine (Telecinco Spain, TVP2 Poland), That’s My Kid (CTC Russia) and The Call (Italia 1).

He had an unusual start to his career in television, appearing in seven TV gameshows as a contestant before persuading 12 Yard Productions to accept him onto their trainee development scheme. As well as being a dad to two, former innovation consultant at WhatIf and showbiz journalist at various newspapers, he’s also a keen kick-boxer, scruffy dog-owner, quiz master, musical-lover and general games obsessive.

David Owen Conway Finance Director

David is the Finance Director at Expectation with over 15 years’ finance experience in tv, film & media.

David joined Expectation in 2017, prior to which he held various Head of Finance roles including at Elton John’s production company Rocket Pictures (Gnomeo & Juliet / Sherlock Gnomes) and the media financier Anton Capital (Paddington 2, Hunger Games).

David is a chartered accountant having qualified in 2006.

Louisa McKay Head of On Screen Talent

As Head of Talent at Expectation, Louisa heads up the team of bookers in delivering high profile talent on shows like This Is MY House (BBC1), Backstage with Katherine Ryan (Amazon) and daily live daytime show Steph’s Packed Lunch (C4). She also casts celebrities across several award winning productions including Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable (Dave/UK TV) and BAFTA winning shows like The Lateish Show with Mo Gilliganand The Big Narstie Show (C4). Louisa also works closely across talent-fronted programme development, sourcing new talent and helping generate talent led programme ideas.

Before joining Expectation in 2019, Louisa booked guests on Britain’s biggest shows. She kicked off her career 20 years ago on The Big Breakfast (C4) and has since secured celebrities for Would I Lie to You? (BBC1), The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C (C4), The Cube (ITV1), 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (C4), The iTunes Festival (ITV2), T4 (C4), GMTV and BBC Liquid News. She has also cast celebrity talent on a variety of major formats and international brands including: The Voice Australia, Australia’s Got Talent, Asia’s Got Talent, Celebrity Apprentice, I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and X Factor Australia.

Joe Meehan Production Accountant

Joe joined Expectation as Production Accountant in 2019, he works across all genres within the business.  He previously worked at Raw TV with a short hiatus into the film and VFX industry.

Jane Nicholson Head of Production, Factual

Jane joined Expectation’s Factual department in early 2019.  She came from Century Films, where she had been since 2001 and had become their Head of Production a couple of years later, managing their financial and business affairs, as well as overseeing all the factual and drama output of the company for a broad range of broadcasters and media companies.  This included the award-winning documentaries Feltham Sings, Mumbai High: the Musical, and the series ‘The Secret History of our Streets’ amongst many others – including labour of love The Life After.   She worked on a number of theatrical documentaries, including ‘Climate of Change’ for Participant Media, and for Film4/BFI ‘The Confessions of Thomas Quick’ which she also co-produced.

During her time at Century, she line-produced their dramas and docu-dramas, including ‘Falling Apart’ and ‘Consent’, which respectively won BAFTA and Grierson awards.

Prior to that, she spent several years producing TV commercials and non-broadcast documentary and drama, till she switched to working in television production in the mid-90s.

Amy Dallmeyer Head of Development, Entertainment

Amy began her career on Endemol’s internship programme, since then she’s held development positions at ITV Studios, Fresh One, Electric Ray, Thames and Betty, as well as working in Australia for Nine Network and comedian Chris Lilley’s production partner, Princess Pictures.

She’s developed and produced a range of programming from Married at First Sight and Travel Guides (Nine Network) to The Big Reunion (ITV2), Bad Bridesmaid (ITV2), Steps Reunion (SKY), Guess the Star (ITV), Alan Carr’s The Price is Right (C4), The Elaine Page Show (Sky Arts), The Ones to Watch: From Samsung Launching People (SKY) and most recently devised the upcoming BBC Three documentary, Joey Essex: Grief and Me.

Amy joined Expectation in early 2020 and oversees a slate which spans comedy ents, fact-ent, entertainment and reality, so far helping to bring It’s Clarkson on TV to ITV and several other yet to be announced projects to fruition.

Jackie Cooke Financial Controller

Jackie started her career at Chrysalis Entertainment as an accounts assistant and since then have worked  in various finance roles in a wide range of television companies. She found her place at Expectation  in 2019 as Financial Controller and have contributed to some of her favourite projects.

Denise Kadoo Line Producer

Denise joined Expectation in Summer 2018 as Production Manager and now Line Produces numerous productions across the comedy entertainment department, including Bafta award wining ‘The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan’.

She started her television career in 2002, working as a runner for Brighter Pictures, since then she has worked and managed many different productions and prior to joining Expectation, worked on various shows including ‘Celebrity Juice’, ‘The Jump’, ‘The Million Pound Drop’ and ‘The Only Way is Essex’.

Amy MacKinnon Senior Production Coordinator

Amy started off her TV career as a Production Management intern at Viacom. Since then she has worked across a number of different projects as a freelancer. Amy joined Expectation in 2019 and continues to support all of our productions across every genre.

Rhe-an Archibald Series Producer

Rhe-an works across development and production at Expectation. Since joining the team she has developed and series produced BAFTA- winning The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan, developed and produced BAFTA- nominated The Big Narstie Show, and helped to secure a series of Redknapp’s Weekend Warm-up after successfully series producing the pilot.

Other credits include I Can See Your Voice, Alan Carr’s Specstacular, three years at The Last Leg including their Paralympic run live from Rio and serving as a writer on numerous shows including Celebrity Big Brother.

Joe Fowler Development Executive

In his role as Development Executive, Joe has developed some of the factual team’s biggest commissions, including Travels in Trumpland with Ed Balls, Travels in Euroland with Ed Balls and upcoming documentary, The Essex Lorry Deaths.

Prior to joining Expectation, Joe worked across development and production at several of the UK’s leading production companies, including Blast! Films, Century Films, Two Four and Twenty Twenty. His production credits include the Emmy Award-winning Educating Yorkshire, Reported Missing, Saving Lives at Sea, First Dates, the BAFTA-nominated The Choir: Sing While You Work and Epidemic: When Britain Fought AIDS.

Simon Hulme Head of Legal and Business Affairs

Simon began his legal career in private practice at Reed Smith. Soon after qualification he moved in-house advising across multiple genres first at Wall to Wall and then at Studio Lambert. Simon joined Expectation in 2021.

Sophie Conlon Development Script Editor

Sophie joined Expectation in 2018 assisting the factual department. She has since moved over to scripted and works across the development slate as a development script editor. Prior to joining Expectation, Sophie trained and worked as a classical singer before embarking on a career in TV, starting out as a part of the Big Brother team at Initial.

Anna Bonaddio Factual Talent Manager

Anna is Expectation’s factual talent manager. She brings the best TV talent to join our award-winning team. She is committed to supporting up-and-coming talent, collaborating with a wide range of factual talent schemes and setting up mentoring relationships for the prestigious Edinburgh TV Festival’s ‘Ones to Watch’, which kickstarted her own career when she joined the ’96 cohort.

She started at the BBC, researching for Jane Treays and discovering director Joe Wright for ‘10×10’ new directors, then progressed into developing factual formats and documentaries for indies including Keo, Blast, Renegade and Wall to Wall: her commissions include Channel 4’s long-running ‘Child Genius’ series and the Grierson-nominated ‘Excluded: Kicked out of School’.

Anna is from a diverse socio-economic background. Improving inclusion and equality of opportunity in our industry, and sharing her network, is at the heart of what she does.

Kellie Turner Executive Assistant

Previous to Expectation Kellie spent 8 years working alongside Tim Hincks at Endemol – she is a founding member of the Expectation team and has been with Peter and Tim since the very start!

Annette Galloway Accounts Assistant

Annette joined Expectation in Sept 2020 she previously spent the last 25 years working at the BBC for Music & Arts, Presentation, Children’s Television, News gathering and finally for the BBC International News Bureaux.

Ben Wicks Creative Director, Entertainment

After joining Expectation 5 years ago Wicks has overseen the creation, development, and production of a great many shows, including: double BAFTA, and RTS winning: The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan, RTS and BAFTA winning The Big Narstie Show, RTS winning Munya Chawawa’s Race Around Europe, 500 episodes and counting of BAFTA nominated Channel 4’s daytime show Steph’s Packed Lunch, Broadcast-Digital winning Mel Giedroyc’s Unforgivable and most recently ITV’s brand new Joel Dommett fronted game show In With A Shout. He also oversees BBC 1’s This Is My House, Channel 4’s I Literally Just Told You.

Prior to joining Expectation he was executive producer of the multi-BAFTA nominated The Last Leg, overseeing the transformation of the show; from modest ratings to audiences of over 2 million, stellar ratings for a live topical comedy show. Other credits include Exec Producing Alan Carr’s Specstacular, Series Producing Harry Hill’s Tea Time, producing Have I Got News For You and A League of Their Own, Frank Skinner’s Opinionated and BAFTA-winning The Revolution Will Be Televised.

Colin Barr Creative Director, Factual & Factual Drama

Colin Barr is a BAFTA and Emmy-winning Executive Producer/Director who works across Factual and Drama. Previously, he was Creative Director at Minnow Films and an Executive Producer at the BBC.

In Factual, his credits include the BAFTA-winning series’, “Our War” and “Life and Death Row”, as well as the critically-acclaimed, “The Detectives”, “American Justice”, “How to Die: Simon’s Choice” and “Abused: The Untold Story”. Prior to that, he won an Emmy as a Director for “Space Dive”, the feature documentary Red Bull Stratos, Felix Baumgartner’s record-beating freefall from the edge of space.

More recently, he was responsible for Channel Four’s hit format, “SAS: Who Dares Wins”, which sold globally and is now in its fourth series.

In Drama, he Executive Produced BBC One’s BAFTA-winning film, “Damilola: Our Loved Boy” and the BAFTA-nominated series, “Our World War”. He also oversaw the BBC Three dramas, “My Murder” and “Glasgow Girls” and Channel Four’s, “The Watchman” and “Shamed”.

Nerys Evans Creative Director, Comedy

Nerys Evans joins from Channel 4 where she was Deputy Head of Comedy. She spent the past seven years at the Broadcaster where she commissioned award-winning series including: Catastrophe, Flowers, Derry Girls, Damned, Scrotal Recall and The Windsors. Before that she worked for BBC Comedy where she Produced Miranda, Jonathan Creek and French and Saunders.

Alexia Edwards Chief Operating Officer

Alexia joined Expectation from Warner Bros Television Production UK where she was the group commercial and business affairs director for Warner’s UK television production companies, looking after the commercial exploitation and business affairs of shows like First Dates, Who Do You Think You Are? and Don’t Tell The Bride.

Prior to Warner, Alexia served as head of legal and business affairs at ITV where, over a 10-year period, she was responsible for the legal, commercial and business affairs for entertainment, comedy and kids programming across ITV’s portfolio working on shows like The Brits, X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent and I’m a Celebrity Get Me out Of Here!

She began her career as a lawyer at All3Media-owned indie Lion Television, working across the production and distribution deal terms for the firm’s programming with major international broadcasters.