Stephen Surridge is a positive media producer and pioneering audience interactive TV programme creative. He's the MD of both Touchlife Productions Ltd and www.DontGoToDramaSchool.com. He's also a Professional Happiness Coach and motivational speaker - visit www.mrhappiness2000.comHe has worked behind the scenes on legacy UK TV soap operas 'Brookside' and 'The Bill'. He has also produced videos for HRH King Charles.Having trained with Hollywood's number one screen acting coach - Ivana Chubbuck, who taught Brad Pitt and Jim Carrey - he's been teaching film and TV acting training for over 20 years, having trained over 1,500 students.Between 2002 and 2009, Stephen created and produced the world’s first community produced TV and Internet soap opera: ‘Chalkhill Lives'. Set in Portsmouth, it was envisaged as a pioneering community cohesion project.Receiving rave reviews from both the Media Guardian and The Sun Online, it was described as being "Better than EastEnders and Corrie."Broadcasting on the BBC's 'Community Channel' for several years, it became their highest rating show, achieving a regular audience of 1.5 million viewers. One participant of 'Chalkhill Lives' ten years later described the experience as being: "...one of the best experiences of my life." The vision and success of ‘Chalkhill Lives’ makes Stephen an authority in the audience interactive/community building TV content marketplace.He has been waiting for broadband and mobile TV to embed itself within our culture - free from terrestrial broadcaster control - to progress his pioneering vision within the creative marketplace.