Jon Cahn Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Love Triangle

Scared of the Dark / development

Channel 4 / HBO Max gruelling reality competition, The Bridge, returns for a second series in a new tropical location and with double the money up for grabs. AJ Odudu presents The Bridge: Fortune Beach (w/t), an eight-part series in which 16 strangers come together for the chance to win a £200k cash prize, but unaware of the epic challenge required to take the money home.• Developing and refreshing the format, making sure it has strong tentpoles to ensure the series continues to evolve and grow.• Overseeing the casting team, location prep, set build, camera plan to ensure each element is the best it can be.• Finding new onscreen talent and working closely with them to achieve an authentic tone.• Developing and writing protocols – resolving all health and safety concerns pre-shoot to create a smooth-running series.• Overseeing multiple edits and ensuring the story arcs and character development are strong throughout the series.• Liaising with C4 commissioners, legal and press, ensuring all compliance issues are dealt with.• Working closely with the production team to keep production values high but within budget.• Keeping in regular contact with the contributors and psychologists - overseeing duty of care and ensuring contributors feel listened to.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Worked on the fifth, sixth and seventh series of this C4 hit, where 21 civilians are put through a brutal course based on the real version of SAS selection.· Helping develop the new series, creating new format points and tentpoles to ensure the series continues to evolve and grow.· Overseeing the casting team, location prep team, the build of the set, the rig build/ camera plan and making sure each element is up to par.· Finding a new onscreen talent, two new members of our Directing Staff (DS), and also a new ‘DS Mole’ – making sure they can punch through on screen.· Developing and writing protocols – ensuring we have all health and safety concerns ironed out pre shooting to create a smooth-running series.· Cutting Episode One whilst also overseeing multiple edits and ensuring the story arcs and character development are strong throughout the series. · Dealing with C4, legal, press and an additional podcast show – ensuring all compliance issues are dealt with.· Working closely with the production team to ensure our production values are kept high but within our budgetary constraints.· Liaising with the contributors and psychologists - helping oversee duty of care and ensuring contributors feel listened too.

• New C4 9pm series where 11 celebrities who can barely swim have just 12 weeks to master their technique before they attempt to relay across the English Channel - all in aid of Stand Up 2 Cancer.• Overseeing multiple edits – condensing an 8 week edit into just 2 weeks and delivering a primetime hour with all the production value, story arcs and emotion that you’d expect from a 9pm show.• Working closely with the location team to help format the episodes.• Liaising with the C4, fact checking all scripts and looking after the online.

London, United Kingdom

• In the ‘disposable’ world of finding love some of Britain’s bravest singles are trusting a panel of scientists to match them to be married to a complete stranger – who they won’t meet until their wedding day• Running casting, multiple shooting and edit teams –- taking responsibility for the editorial content of the series from beginning to end. Ensuring that stories are well told and their arcs are followed through. • Directing the weddings with multi PSC crews and ensuring production values are kept high• Being a key bridge between the shooting teams and the channel• Working with Production to ensure budgets and teams are all running smoothly.

London, United Kingdom

• Developing a new C4 9pm format where three very different high-profile celebrities go on a train journey around Europe together – and have to live each other’s holiday 24/7.• Gaining access to train companies across Europe and sorting complex logistics - so the shoot will (hopefully) run without a hitch, • Working closely with a celeb booker to get the right cast.• Meeting the talent selling them the idea and making them trust in me and more importantly excited about being part of a program that hasn’t been tried and tested. • Organising a team to ensure that the program is well staffed – but also can deliver the highest production value in a fairly tight budget.• Also in this time period I helped develop and shoot a taster tape for ITV which was then commissioned for a 6 part series.

• Britain’s most daring dating show is back as Anna Richardson tries to help singletons find love - naked.• Formatting the dates and backstories and setting the tone with the other PD’s to ensure the house style feels fun fresh and not formulaic.• Shooting on FS7 and A7S ensuring each contributors story is clearly told and they are relatable as characters• Reassuring and keeping contributors on-board throughout the process and ensuring they feel supported.

• The Second Series following struggling families living off grid. Whose fortunes are turned around by the Raney family – an Alaskan’s family of homesteading experts who increase these novices chances of survival. • Filming the first episode, setting the series tone. And taking the show from start to finish, recceing, scripting, and shooting the episode – ensuring all the ‘tent poles’ of a dynamic episode are shot and in place for a smooth edit• Overseeing two shooting PD’s – ensuring the series look is upheld• Edit producing – making sure the episode has strong story told throughout and that the footage is combed thoroughly

Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners; Country House Rescue

The Island With Bear Grylls (women)

The Island With Bear Grylls (women)

Ramsay's Costa Del Nightmares

The Island With Bear Grylls (series 1)

Betty TV July, 2013 – PresentChannel 4 ‘Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners’ Producer/ Director● Channel 4 obs doc looking into the world of obsessive compulsive people and getting them to use their unique ‘gift’ to help people who need a serious spring clean.Betty TV Mar 2013 – July, 2013Fox International ‘Man Up’ Producer/ Director• New series for the launch of Fox in the UK, and airing globally, about men who live at home with their families and need help gaining some much needed confidence.Betty TV June 2012 - Jan 2013Channel 4 ‘Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners’ Producer/ DirectorBetty TV Jan, 2012 – June 2012Channel 4 ‘Cutting Edge: My Big Fat Fetish’ Director● Cutting Edge documentary looking into the lives of women in the US and the UK, who gain weight for sexual pleasure. Betty TV October, 2011 – Jan 2012BBC3 – ‘The Coming Out Diaries’ (1 x 60min) Director● Observational documentary following 4 different teens and they battle the process of coming out to those they care about most.Betty TV September 2011 – October, 2011Channel 4 ‘Joy of Teen Sex’ – Series 2 (6 x 60 min) Director● Primetime series dealing with the medical, emotional and physical issues in sex that teenager’s worry about.

Studio Lambert Jan 2013 – Mar 2013Channel 4 ‘Gogglebox’ Producer/ Director● New Channel 4 show coming out of Specialist Factual - about families in their homes commenting on the weird and wonderful things we see on our TV screens. Harry Hill esque.

RDF Television April 2011 – September. 2011BBC3 – ‘Sun Sex and Suspicious Parents’ - Series 2 (7 x 60 min) Casting Producer/ Location Director● Coming of age show – all about kids going abroad for the first time, what they don’t know is their parents have gone along as well and are watching their every move.

ITV March 2011 – March 2011ITV1 – ‘Britain’s Best Dish – Series 5 (40 x 60min) Producer/ Director● Hugely popular cooking competition comes back for its fifth series.

BBC May 2009 – July 2009BBC1 ‘Crimewatch Roadshow’ (20 x 45min) Director

talkbackThames Feb 2009 – May 2009Channel 4 ‘How Clean is Your House? - Revisits’ (Series 6) (4 x 30min) Producer/ Director