The Televators

Do you ever feel overwhelmed? We understand that when TV production businesses are just starting out, or dealing with mounting pressures on margins and deadlines, it’s difficult to fill all those back-end roles and activities you know are vital to delivering a great product and grow your company. Wouldn’t it be great if you could dial your business up or down on demand? As your partner, The Televators make this possible and give your business the maximum flexibility to succeed

Interim Support

TV production is peaks and troughs. And resourcing for the peaks is not cost effective. We can offer flexible solutions and days - we understand that while you might only need a day or so HoP support a week that's not always going to be on a Wednesday! We can spread hours out across the week and vary days according to production need.

Production Budgets

Our network of production experts have done it all. So, whatever you need to put a budget together for, we’ll make sure it's competitive but realistic and thorough, to minimise the possibility of dropping something to bite you later on. With our express service, we will try and turn it around in 24 hours.

Growth & Business Plans

You’re great at what you do but knowing how to take your business to the next level is not always obvious when you’re so close to it. We can make an objective review of what sets you apart and the opportunities for new markets, platforms, revenue streams, partnerships and investments. And we can help assemble the plans, introductions and promotional collateral to make it happen.

Finance & Business Affairs

Many brilliant TV production businesses get by most times without their own Finance and Legal departments or with limited resource that can get overwhelmed. Why not let us step in and help out when needed with a cost effective on-demand solution?

Company Set Up

You've just set up your company and won your first commission. What policies do you need to have in place? How will ensure your finance systems are robust? Do you need a welcome pack or a PM Bible? Let us look after all of this for you while you get on with creating great TV.

Production start up & contracting

We understand that starting up productions is a busy time for your PMs and the admin involved in ensuring everyone is correctly contracted, has completed all relevant training monitoring diversity and setting up Albert can be extremely time consuming. Why not let us take all this admin off your hands?

Deliverables & Wrap-Up

You know when you’re done before it’s done? Why not hand over to us at Picture Lock so we can steer the production through to final delivery, freeing your team to move on to the next exciting project. Or if you just need the post production paperwork completing one of our production coordinators can help.

Distribution & Re-licensing

International distribution of programmes can be a good source of income for production companies as well as a way to top up your budgets. Do you have programmes/series that have interest from a distributor? Or do you need help finding one? We can assist with this as well as the leg work of re-licensing/re-clearing archive and music for worldwide sales. We can take a look through your back catalogue and see if there are opportunities to monetize old programmes/series.

Kirstie McLure

Former MD of the Tinopolis Group’s Pioneer Production, a leader in Specialist Factual Content, Kirstie introduced innovative new formats including Fast-Turn Around docs, Live Specials, and Returnable UGC series as well as establishing a joint venture in Asia. She’s also a massive proponent of new Technology, in production and distribution

Nikki Tilley

After a start in the world of Drama Nikki crossed to factual when she joined Pioneer in 1999. Working as a PM, Producer/Director and finally Head of Production, Nikki was across a broad slate of projects and heavily involved in all elements of production and recruiting during her time with the company.

Viki Carter

Viki is an HoP/Production Executive who has worked in TV for almost 20 years and has a wealth of experience across unscripted ranging from factual entertainment formats to live studio to fixed rig to feature docs and documentary series. Over the years she’s worked with a number of start ups and rapidly growing indies and particularly enjoys helping get companies up and running with efficient systems and processes to enable them to grow and expand. She’s also a whizz with budgets and schedules and overseeing productions pro-actively ensuring they stay on budget and schedule.

Pete Dunkerley

Pete has over 20 years experience in production finance. He started out as a Finance Manager for an award winning Childrens’ TV company, and was a director of Pioneer Productions for 6 years. He joined the Televators 3 years ago and in that time has worked with a large number of Production Companies across all genres.

Sarah Hume

Washington

Sarah Hume is currently CEO of Sarah Hume Production Consulting providing operational consulting services to a variety of well-known and smaller production entities. As VP of Production Management at Discovery Communications up until July 2016, Sarah oversaw an average of 4000 hours of programming across the Discovery US networks which include TLC, Animal Planet, ID, Destination America, Velocity and American Heroes Channel.

Todd McMichael

‘Classically’ trained in an analogue world, Todd has transferred his audit training to the media industry in London for over 25 years. Experience garnered from many prominent companies can be adapted to entities of any size or idiosyncrasies, streamlining processes, adding cohesion and a platform for greater creative performance.