In August 2010 Kevin Lygo joined ITV STUDIOS as Managing Director.

Kevin first joined Channel 4 as Head of Entertainment and Music in August 1997 and presided over an acclaimed expansion of the channel’s entertainment portfolio. Commissions during his first employment at Channel 4 include So Graham Norton, Trigger Happy TV, Top 10s, Smack the Pony, Spaced, Black Books, Da Ali G Show, and The 11 O'clock Show, as well as the now notorious Brass Eye.   Kevin also acted as Controller for the successful launch of Channel 4’s digital entertainment channel, E4, in January 2001. 

He left later in 2001 to spend two years as Director of Programmes at Five, where he is credited with broadening the channel’s programme offering from a reliance on films, sport and acquisitions to embrace original UK production including arts, popular factual and history programming. 

Kevin Lygo rejoined Channel 4 as Director of Television in November 2003 and in 2007 he was promoted to Director of Television and Content. 

Other Channel 4 programming highlights under Kevin’s stewardship include Jamie’s School Dinners, voted the fifth most influential programme in UK TV history by Broadcast magazine, as well as Anatomy for Beginners, The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off, Brat Camp, Deal or No Deal, Green Wing, Hamburg Cell, Not Only But Always, Omagh, Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, Sex Traffic, Shameless and Supernanny. 

Working closely with Kevin Lygo, Managing Director ITV Studios, Denise leads ITV Studios UK’s commercial strategy and is tasked with identifying and exploiting new opportunities for growth. She oversees business affairs and production as well as rights management and will work with the creative teams to ensure maximum value from content.

Prior to joining  ITV Denise  was Co-Founder and  Joint Managing Director of Hat-Trick Productions; she is credited with establishing the production company’s position in the UK and US working across all areas of the business from ideas generation through to content exploitation. 

Denise is based in London, South Bank and joined ITV in December 2010.

Other roles held at ITV and previously at Carlton include Deputy Director of Finance, and a variety of Group jobs leading up to three years as Group Financial Controller of ITV plc.  Paul previously trained and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG.