The bus conductor of life is the mythical character that suddenly announces "All Change" - a frequent occurrence in this industry!
I’m really sorry for the delay in updating my blog the
last few weeks. But it has been so busy, busy and even more busy that I’m not sure
where to start! I have a feeling this could be quite a long entry….....
Ok, as you know I’m no longer presenting iBall but now have five separate projects started or starting! I’ve spent the last couple of weeks in pre production on one of them (except for time spent at MipTV in Cannes last week and chilling with BJ my dog) and I'll tell you all about everything as soon as my contract allows.
I’m particularly excited about this programme and look
forward to writing about it as it’s happening. I promise to try and take as
many photos as possible too!
You may remember me talking about a documentary I was
presenting on Dolphins?! Well, I’m going to be heading back out to Tenerife to
shortly to do more work on that.
This time I’ll try and get some more underwater photos of the Dolphins – such incredible creatures!
I had a great evening at Soho House recently. I met up
with my friend Frank Rehwaldt. Frank and I worked together a couple of years
ago on Channel4’s thisisaknife show and will hopefully be working on another
project together in the near future.
Frank hails from sunny California but apparently LIKES grey skies so
splits his time between LA and London. He’s produced extremely successful shows
in the US from Big Brother to the Osbournes, Rich Girls etc and also been the
screenwriter on several other shows. Here’s a piccy of the lovely Frank….
A few weeks ago I was invited to meet Gary Chippington
(Director of presenter led programming) and Ian Lamarra, a senior producer,
both at Tiger Aspect – one of the UK’s biggest and most successful production
companies. We had a great meeting and fingers crossed – we’ll be working
together in the future.
As I mentioned, last week was MipTV in Cannes. As usual it was filled
with stacks of meetings and the obligitary attendance of parties – so I was
feeling a little worse for wear come Friday! 
The week started with a bang when I met up with party
creator extraordinaire Mr Andy Grumbridge – he’s a very talented guy (and top
bloke) who is Director of Digital Media for Virgin Radio (having been poached
from Channel 4 last summer to head up their online side) – fun does tend to be
his middle name! We ended up having a very messy night
ably aided and abetted by Andy Taylor (of All3media) with his wife Lara and
John Nolan (NorthOneTelevision)!
It was also great to meet up with Jim Manson and Fiona
Sanderson (the managing directors of the Luxury Channel) www.theluxurychannel.tv. They are
creating incredible documentaries to be shown on CNBC around the world and
online, having a niche audience of the top earners around the world who are
looking for something extra special.
I’m looking forward to seeing them both again very soon in London.
On Thursday I met up for dinner with Ashley Highfield and a few of his BBC mates at Tantra. http://www.worldsbestbars.com/city/cannes/le-loft-cannes.htm
Ashley has been headline news this week as he has just
resigned from his job as Director of Future Media & Technology at the BBC
to take over as CEO of Project Kangaroo - an initiative planned by the BBC, ITV
and Channel 4 to encourage further take-up of online video. So good luck
Ashley!
I’m going to try and update this blog every week so stay
tuned for all the news that I will be sharing as soon as I can. Thanks again
for all your kind emails - I really appreciate them.
Love
Susan x