CV: Claire Richmond, TV Producer & TV-preneur

FIND A TV EXPERT
April 08 - ongoing: founder & MD

FLAME TV
Sept 06 - June 2007: Series Producer, ‘Don’t Get Done, Get Dom’.  BBC1 (30x45mins)

ENTERACTION TV
Feb-June 2006: Executive Producer, ‘Today on 3 Live’ – 3 mobile.  Responsible for setting up, launching and overseeing the delivery of a daily, 15 minutes, ‘made for mobile’ magazine show comprising News, Reviews, Top 3 Music charts (all studio shows), items filmed on location and competitions.

ENTERACTON TV
August - October 2005: Producer/Director - 'Today on 3 Live', 3 mobile. Developed, produced and pitched a 25 mins 'made for mobile' magazine show pilot.

ENDEMOL UK
May - August 2005: Producer/Director, The Best & Worst of Changing Rooms. BBC1, (1 x 60 mins).

ENDEMOL UK
Feb 2005 - March 2005: Development Producer (luxury lifestyle programmes including fashion, cookery, travel, property, health & beauty.)

ENTERACTIONTV
March 2004 - Jan 2005: Director of Programmes, London TV, responsible for helping to set up, launch and run the channel.

London TV was carried on Sky channel 244 and provided viewers with an inside track on the city's entertainment and cultural activities from the well known to the obscure, from the traditional to the never been done before. As DOP I was responsible for devising, developing and overseeing the production of all the programmes, including: ‘My London' - a celebrity take on the capital; ‘What's On'  - a breakdown of what's happening around the city at the top of every hour; ‘Tell Me Where To Go' - an arts review studio show hosted by Mike McClean with Tessa Dunlop (BBC London), Michael Holden (Guardian) and Piers Hernu (FHM Magazine); 'London's Finest' - the best bits of the city presented by The Independents' Simon Calder; 'Ask Us' - a phone-in studio show; and the Go Guides (Go Eat, Go Party, Go Play, Go Shop, Go Stay, Go Visit, Go Watch, Go Festive and Go 24.)

ENDEMOL UK
Feb - Nov 2003: Series Producer, Changing Rooms. BBC1 (20x30mins).
Responsible for developing the new format with Laurence Llewelyn Bowen as presenter.

ENDEMOL UK
Feb - Nov 2002: Series Producer, Changing Rooms. BBC1 (20 x 30 mins).

ENDEMOL UK
Feb - Nov 2001: Series Producer, Changing Rooms. BBC1 (20x30 mins). Series was winner of the TV Quick Best Lifestyle Show.

ENDEMOL UK
March 2000 - Feb 2001: Producer, Ready Steady Cook & Celebrity Ready Steady Cook. BBC2 (120 x 30mins) + BBC1 (20 x 30). Responsible for developing the format with Ainsley Harriot as presenter.

ENDEMOL UK
Feb - March 2000: Producer, Ideal Home TV Show. Channel 5 (5 x 36mins). Responsible for devising and developing the format.

ENDEMOL UK
July 99 - Feb 2000: Producer, Ready Steady Cook & Celebrity Ready Steady Cook. BBC2 (90 x 30mins) + BBC1 (10 x 30mins).

ENDEMOL UK
March 99 - June 99: Producer, Anything You Can Cook. BBC1 (27 x 30mins).

ENDEMOL UK
Dec 98 - March 99: Producer, Fashion Snoopers. BBC1's 'Vanessa Show'. 80 x 7mins makeovers, presented by Sara Cox and stylist Glen Campbell.

LIVETV
Jan 95-Nov 98: Whilst at Live TV I directed, developed and produced numerous shows & pilots including Topless Darts, The Love Test, The Rise of the Cleavage documentary, Handy Hunks, Fate & Fortune (a tarot & clairvoyant phone in show), Wish you Lived Here? (a property programme), Indecent Proposals and The Sex Show.

PLANET 24
June 93 - Nov 94: Promotions Coordinator, The Big Breakfast. Responsible for securing prizes, setting up & monitoring all the onscreen competitions.

PIPR (Public Relations)
March 92 - April 93: Account Manager for Avis Rent A Car, Inter-Continental Hotels, Citalia and Accident & General Travel Insurance.

THE ROWLAND COMPANY (Public Relations)
Aug 88 - March 92: Senior Account Executive responsible for positioning & promoting Puerto Rico and Massachusetts as holiday destinations for the UK traveller and raising awareness of them in the consumer and travel trade publications.

Sept 83 – June '87: Wheaton College, Massachusetts, USA
BA in French with a minor in Education.
Graduated Summa Cum Laude (US equivalent of a First) and was awarded the Littlefield Mandell French Prize.

Sept 85 – June 86: Sorbonne, Paris (Hamilton College Junior Year in France programme, taken as part of my University degree)

Aug 80 – June 82: The School of Mary Immaculate, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
International Baccalaureate.

Aug 71 – June 80: The British School of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Jacqueline Hewer - Commissioning Editor, BBC One

Barbara Altounyan - Director of Programmes, Flame TV

Phi Beta Kappa – USA nationwide fraternity for ‘high academic achievement’.

Balfour Scholar – Awarded to first year Wheaton College students with ‘outstanding academic ability and potential for leadership'.

Dana Scholar – Awarded to ‘top students who demonstrate the best overall academic performance and leadership qualities and potential'.