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Executive Producer, Series 1 and Series 2 of Obsession: Dark Desires for Discovery IDhttp://www.octoberfilms.co.uk/recentproductions.phphttp://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-shows/obsession-dark-desires

Alex Sutherland was Bearkatt’s Joint Creative Director and Senior Executive Producer during a period of successful company growth, overseeing the production of several documentaries for Channel 4, Channel 5, and National Geographic Channels.

Executive Producer of two NOVA films for PBS/C5, plus 3-part series for Discovery & 6-part National Geographic Wild series Dead or Alive.

As a representative of National Geographic Channel in the UK, Alex oversaw many of the broadcaster’s high profile commissions from the UK’s independents, including The Birth of Britain presented by Tony Robinson (Nat Geo/C4), Britain’s Underworld (True North), two series of Britain’s Greatest Machines …with Chris Barrie, Meerkats (Oxford Scientific Films) and the obs doc series Sea Patrol (Wall to Wall)

For Dragonfly she exec produced C4’s fact ent series Worlds and Me…with Mark Dolan (TX April 2010), was responsible for developing and exec producing the BBC1 documentary From Woolies to Wellies: One Woman’s Fight for the High Street, and the 4-part natural history series Among the Apes, presented by Charlotte Uhlenbroek for FIVE.

Commissioning Editor for History and other factual programmes and series.Alex joined FIVE in 2004, initially responsible for the science output, including Extraordinary People, and developed popular formatted series such as Building the Ultimate, Fifth Gear, and the Britain’s Worst... franchise, which she developed into high-rating factual entertainment shows.She became Controller, History expanding the Revealed strand into one of the most successful on FIVE with films on D Day, The Great Escape, The Da Vinci Code and How M & S Lost Its Billions, increasing viewing figures and winning several awards.Alex also pioneered live factual events at the channel with shows such as Fighter Plane Dig Live!, Pompeii Live! and the controversial Birth Night Live, as well as developing and commissioning two series of Big Ideas that Changed the World, in which world figures such as Gorbachev, Desmond Tutu and Jesse Jackson told the history of movements like Communism and Christianity through their own life experiences.She devised and commissioned the 3-part series Disappearing Britain with the BFI, combining social history with personal biography of the presenters Sarah Lancashire, Ricky Tomlinson and Wendy Craig.And Alex took FIVE way out of its box by commissioning commemorative poems from Simon Armitage to mark the anniversaries of WW2, A Time of Rejoicing and 9/11 Out of the Blue which won an RTS Award in 2007. And she developed and commissioned the 6-part series Brits who made the Modern World, presented by Peter Snow, and Dangerous Adventures for Boys.

Commissioning Editor for Science/Current AffairsAlex joined Channel Four as a commissioning editor in the Science & Education department. Initially in charge of science programming, including the Equinox strand, she oversaw over 20 hours of single programmes and series in production. Commissions included How the Twin Towers Collapsed, the channel’s highest rating factual show of the year, Torso in the Thames an investigation into the police enquiry into a young boy’s found in the Thames, and Equinox films on Time Travel and the Earth’s Magnetic Flip.For six months Alex worked jointly for C4’s Current Affairs department where she helped commission Dispatches and develop Risking It All.