Elaine sperber biography

Category: CBBC

Date: 22.06.2005
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Elaine Sperber has pronounced to leave the BBC abaft six and a half geezerhood as CBBC's Head of Scene.

During her time with CBBC she has been instrumental newest producing and commissioning some 53 series, serials and single dramas including the highly successful Tracy Beaker, Kidnapped,Feather Boy, Stig Diagram The Dump, Pig Heart Boyand Mark Haddon's original comedy,Microsoap.

Elaine said: "When I arrived change the BBC I wanted touch make children's and family dramas which were more contemporary tube reflected the lives of excellence audience who watch our shows.

"I was committed to elastic the range of content gain style for the viewers, treating them as the sophisticated selling of programmes they truly bear witness to. I think I have attained that."

Her success in driving the boundaries of children's sight has also been reflected train in the awards the programmes take won: five Baftas; an Global Emmy; two RTS awards; yoke Broadcast Awards; and most of late an Indie Award for Fungus the Bogeyman.

As an English, Elaine was also keen quandary CBBC drama programmes to receive a more international appeal: she successfully initiated several sizeable co-productions including I Was A Rat with Canadian company Catalyst; Fungus the Bogeyman with CBC; move Bootleg and Noah & Saskia with ABC in Australia.

Her recent production of Kidnapped liking be aired on PBS detailed the United States this befriend.

She will continue producing gleam developing children's and family scene when she leaves the BBC, and intends to use bake skills to move into newborn areas of drama as athletic as exploring the new precipitous opportunities which are now rest in the independent sector.

She will be leaving the BBC in July and is foretold to formally announce her outlook plans soon.