In 2011 Mike was approached to join the new executive team at ITV Studios and became Director of International Formats and is overseeing the slate of formats including "Come Dine With Me", "I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here"and new shows such as "Red or Black?".

Mike's career began on children's shows such as “Wacaday” and “Top Banana” TV-am. He moved to Planet 24 and was part of the team which launched “The Big Breakfast”, before moving on to LWT. Here his credits included “Blind Date”, “You Bet!” and “Gladiators”. After 2 years at LWT Mike joined US production company Bunim/Murray Productions on their landmark series “The Real World”, followed by a period with Hat Trick Productions, working on “Confessions” and “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” including setting the latter up for ABC in the US.

In 1998 Mike joined the BBC where he oversaw many of their top rated shows including “Dog Eat Dog” and “Friends Like These”. He was also part of the team that developed, produced and then rolled out internationally “The Weakest Link”. In 2001 he was asked to help set up independent 12 Yard Productions and again worked on bringing many hits to UK screens. His Executive Producer credits include “In It To Win It”, “Coach Trip” and “Eggheads” in the UK and “The Benefactor”, “The Rich List” and “Without Prejudice?” in the US.

In April 2007 he formed Alchemy Reality under the auspices of Alchemy Television Group and became its Managing Director, creating and Executive Producing "Scene Stealers" for the BBC. In September 2009 he became VP of International Production for NBCUniversal overseeing the roll out of "MinuteTo Win It" including being the Executive Producer of the Indian, Malaysian and Middle East versions of the show. 

Sally joined ITV Studios UK in January 2012 where she will has responsibility for leading ITV Studios production management strategy to deliver and support the ongoing creative renewal and growth plans of ITV.
She will be in charge of driving value, efficiency and production modernisation, and ensuring effective use of resources and technology across all platforms. Sally will develop production partnerships with ITV Studios International production business and co producers to maximise the range and diversity of ITV Studios content.

Sally began her career in the media industry over 30 years ago. Her early years were spent at London Weekend Television on programmes including; Game For A Laugh, World of Sport, Blind Date and Dempsey and Makepeace. This was followed by a five year spell as a freelancer working for major independent companies. Sally joined Talkback Productions in 1993 as Head of Production, becoming Managing Director in 2002. During this time she was a key member of the senior team leading rapid expansion as Talkback grew from a niche supplier of comedy  into one of the best known and most successful companies spanning comedy, drama, entertainment, factual and documentaries with such iconic series as The Day Today, The Lost Prince, QI, Smack The Pony, Never Mind The Buzzcocks and Grand Designs.

In 2003, Sally was appointed Chief Operating Officer of TalkbackThames and was responsible for successfully merging  two very different cultures with over 1000 hours of programming including The Bill, Greenwing, The X Factor and The Apprentice.  She spent 2 years as Managing Director at Avalon Television relaunching Harry Hill's TV Burp and launching Not Going Out before joining the BBC as Controller Production Operations, Vision Productions.

At the BBC Sally was responsible for the overall operations function for Vision Productions, the BBC's in-house production department. She was accountable for the day-to-day management of the production slate including programmes such as Eastenders, Strictly Come Dancing, Top Gear, Antiques Roadshow, The Thick of It and Frozen Planet. In addition to her production content responsibilities Sally was the Vision lead for Training and Development, Sustainability and Health and Safety.

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.

With accountability for the people strategy for the ITV Studio's across the UK and International businesses, David joined ITVS in May 2011 having spend the previous 15 years in a variety of blue chip environments including Vodafone, VISA and Marks and Spencer.

David joined ITV as Finance Director of ITV Studios in June 2011.

He qualified with Arthur Andersen in Dublin in 1996 and has  extensive international experience having worked with businesses in the UK, the US, Australia, Russia , Brazil, and Western Europe.

Prior to this he spent 7 years with TUI Travel PLC in a number of senior finance roles. This  included 3 years as Finance Director of it's Specialist and Emerging Markets Division and 3 years as Director of M&A where he lead the £3bn merger between First Choice Holidays PLC and TUI Tourism to create TUI Travel PLC.

Before joining TUI, David spent 6 years with Close Brothers Corporate Finance advising on a wide range of transactions including public and private takeovers, fund raisings and M&A strategy for both PLC and private clients.

Having qualified as a solicitor in 1994, Justine left private practice and joined Granada Television (Manchester) at the beginning of 1996 in the legal and business affairs team.  After 18 months she moved to the London office to work in the drama and comedy departments as business affairs manager. In 1999, Justine moved up to Yorkshire Television (which had become part of the group in the previous year) and worked across the production slate of Yorkshire Tyne Tees, subsequently becoming Head of Business Affairs for Granada's northern production businesses.   In 2006, the remit was expanded to include drama and comedy in London and the role was formalised within that genre in 2007, as Controller of Business Affairs for Scripted Content, ITV Studios.  On 1 October 2011, Justine was appointed Director of Legal and Business Affairs, ITV Studios UK.
 
 
As Director of Business Affairs, Justine is a member of the ITV Studios management team, playing a significant role in the daily management of the UK business, advising on all areas of legal and commercial policy ensuring that commercial terms are fully exploited. The DBA negotiates or oversees all major deals, drives talent deals and broadcaster/talent union negotiations and manages the Business Affairs, Casting and Music teams in ITV Studios.