Apparitions, a new drama series for 91Èȱ¬ÌýOne
Production biographies
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Carolyn Reynolds - Executive Producer
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Carolyn Reynolds joined Lime Pictures (previously called Mersey
Television) as Chief Executive in June 2005 after leaving Granada
where she was the Controller of Drama.
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At Lime Pictures, Carolyn
oversees the production of all drama including the award-winning
soap opera Hollyoaks and the children's drama, Grange Hill.
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While in her position at Granada, Carolyn was Executive Producer
of Coronation Street, a drama she has had a long association with,
having produced it during the Nineties.
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Carolyn's other projects
included Cold Blood starring Matthew Kelly and Jemma Redgrave;
a one-off comedy Von Trapped! written by Jonathan Harvey, which
was screened in 2004 on ITV1; The Stepfather, a two-part drama
starring Philip Glenister, Robert Bathurst and Lindsey Coulson;
The Baby War, a 90-minute drama transmitted on ITV1 in
2005; Suspicion, a two-part thriller starring Amanda Redman; and
Avenging Angels, a comedy-drama starring Jessica Stevenson.
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Another of Carolyn's projects, Blue Murder starring Caroline
Quentin, was first screened in May 2003 and achieved nine million
viewers, making it the best performing short-run drama on ITV1
that year. This show also returned for a second series in 2004.
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As Controller of Drama at Yorkshire Television, Carolyn was
responsible for one of ITV's biggest ratings successes in recent
years, At 91Èȱ¬ With The Braithwaite's starring Amanda Redman
and Peter Davison.
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Carolyn's other credits while at Yorkshire included The Innocent
starring Caroline Quentin; Jonathan Harvey's first television drama
Birthday Girl, starring Sarah Lancashire; and the highest-rated
new drama of 1997, Reckless starring Robson Green, Francesca
Annis and Michael Kitchen.
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Tony Wood - Executive Producer
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Tony Wood was brought up in Deal in Kent and is a graduate
of Manchester University Drama Department.
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He began his
television career on Channel 4's Brookside.
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Following a brief spell as script editor at Emmerdale Farm,
Tony joined David Liddiment's successful Entertainment
department at Granada Television.
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While at Granada he
developed, script edited or produced over 200 hours of network
programming including Rik Mayall Presents, Families, In
Suspicious Circumstances, Revelations, Surgical Spirit and The
Grand.
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Tony spent the late Nineties as an executive producer in 91Èȱ¬ drama
before leaving to devise and produce the Lock Stock series with Guy
Ritchie for Channel 4.
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He returned to ITV in 2000 as the Head of
Continuing Drama for the entire network, overseeing around 400
hours per year of some the nation's most popular programmes.
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In 2003 Tony took over as producer of Coronation Street. His
stint on the programme garnered nearly 100 awards, achieved all
top five spots in the weekly ratings charts 25 times and
attracted luminous talents as diverse as Status Quo and Sir Ian
McKellen.
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Since January 2006, he has been Creative Director of Lime
Pictures.
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Working alongside Chief Executive Carolyn Reynolds,
he is charged with growing that company in to the UK's largest
and most prestigious drama production company.
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Tony oversees
all programme output from Lime.
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Ann Harrison-Baxter - Producer (Episodes 1 & 2)
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Ann Harrison-Baxter's producing career began in 1999 when she was given the
opportunity to produce the first series of 91Èȱ¬ drama Clocking Off
for Red Production Company.
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The series starred Sarah Lancashire
and Christopher Eccleston and won a string of awards including a
BAFTA for Best Drama Series.
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Her career went from strength to strength as she went on to
produce the BAFTA-nominated third series of The Cops for World
Productions.
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Ann then continued her association with Red
Production Company, working with Russell T Davies on such
critically acclaimed ITV shows as Bob & Rose, The Second
Coming and Mine All Mine.
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She subsequently produced the BAFTA-nominated 91Èȱ¬ Two drama series Conviction.
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Ann then worked for Company Pictures to produce the first series
of ITV's Wild At Heart starring Amanda Holden and Stephen
Tompkinson.
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Most recently she was an Executive Producer on
Waterloo Road, a Shed production for 91Èȱ¬ One.
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Caroline Levy - Producer (Episodes 3 - 6)
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Before joining Lime Pictures to produce Apparitions, Caroline was
developing a wide range of film and television projects for UK and
US broadcasters including Film4, 91Èȱ¬, HBO, Showtime and AMC.
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She has produced and co-written both dramas and documentaries
filming around the world.
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In 2007 she produced Channel 4 and
Showtime's psychological thriller Cape Wrath starring David
Morrissey.
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For FX she pitched, produced and co-wrote the movie
Oil Storm. The film was shot in America and Russia and aired three
months before Hurricane Katrina and proved eerily prophetic.
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"You couldn’t help wondering how a British producer could work
all this out but the world's most powerful government couldn’t,"
said the Daily Telegraph. "Oil Storm did an alarmingly fine job of
exposing the glaring weaknesses of the US economy."
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Prior to producing in the 91Èȱ¬'s drama department, Caroline
worked in 91Èȱ¬ News & Current Affairs and Documentaries for
five years on a range of programmes including Rough Justice,
Assignment, Correspondent and Newsnight.
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Joe Ahearne - Writer/Director
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Joe Ahearne began his career as writer and director on critically acclaimed 91Èȱ¬ drama This Life, starring Jack Davenport and
Andrew Lincoln, which won the Writers' Guild award in 1997.
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In 1998 he wrote and directed the six-part mini-series Ultraviolet
which became a cult hit and was recently selected by the BFI for
the 25-year retrospective of Channel 4.
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In 2005 he received a Best Director BAFTA nomination for his
work on the first series of Doctor Who which won Best Drama
Series at the BAFTA and Broadcast Awards.
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In 2006 he wrote and directed ITV film Perfect Parents starring
Christopher Eccleston, which won the 2007 Rome Fiction Fest.
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Joe most recently directed the 10-year anniversary episode of This
Life.
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