I am an experienced Series Producer and Director. I was a Producer and Director on the first three seasons of the hit Amazon Prime show The Grand Tour.  I started my career working at the BBC and have since gone onto work on a variety of high-profile series including; Top Gear, Louis Theroux Documentaries, Cutting Edge and The Moaning of Life with... Read More

I am an experienced Series Producer and Director. I was a Producer and Director on the first three seasons of the hit Amazon Prime show The Grand Tour.  I started my career working at the BBC and have since gone onto work on a variety of high-profile series including; Top Gear, Louis Theroux Documentaries, Cutting Edge and The Moaning of Life with Karl Pilkington. I spent the last two years creating a brand-new series about farming with Jeremy Clarkson for Amazon Prime. As Series Director and Series Producer I took the idea from two sides of A4 to a finished 8-part programme due out in summer 2021.https://vimeo.com/gavinwhiteheadKey Skills: Shaping programmes from development stage through production and the edit. Working well with talent and contributors, sometimes in difficult situations. Producing comedy and creative thinking. Multi camera directing and storytelling on location. Finding remarkable contributors, stories and locations. Lots of experience of producing and directing complicated, logistically difficult and high risk shoots in a range of foreign locations, often in very short periods of time. Difficult access negotiations both in the UK and abroad. Read Less