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ALAN BROWN

Creative Director for Diverse Group

As one of Britain's leading television executive producers, Alan has over ten years experience.  He has originated and produced an extraordinary wide range of hit shows from factual entertainment formats, comedy entertainment panel shows and documentary series.

After several years as producer director at BBC and Granada, Alan got his first executive producer gig at the BBC in Manchester under Wayne Garvie. There Alan created a string of new shows including the massive nostalgia brand I Love the 70s/80s for BBC2. The format sold worldwide and became the #1 show for VH1 in the USA.  Alongside his own originations, Alan went onto to Executive produce on high profile factual series such as Great Britons and Reputations. In 2003, Alan became a BBC Senior Commissioning Executive for Entertainment ordering the first British series of business formats, The Apprentice and Dragons Den. After two years, Peter Fincham and Daisy Goodwin took him to Talkback Thames as a key creative, running all the factual/comedy entertainment shows. This included the second, audience breakthrough series of The Apprentice, he extended the brand with the spin off show You're Fired with Adrian Chiles. In comedy entertainment he oversaw the revival of comedy entertainment brand Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

Returning to BBC production in 2007, Alan created and produced the fifteen part reality show The Restaurant featuring chef Raymond Blanc, now commissioned for its third series on BBC2. It's success led to an offer to rejoin Daisy Goodwin, this time at Silver River as Creative Director in 2008, Alan made one of the biggest features hit shows of the year Grow Your Own Drugs with new talent James Wong for BBC2 and launched the very successful Oops TV with Justin Lee-Collins for SkyOne.  Both shows have won re-commissions.

The quality and originality of his work have won him recognition and awards from The Royal Television Society, BAFTA, Grierson and the Rose d'Or.

ROB MACIVER

Creative Director, Diverse Bristol

Robert MacIver joined Diverse Production Ltd in 2003 to set up and run the Bristol office and to head up Diverse's launch into the international markets, particularly the USA. He moved from Granada Bristol where he was Head of Science and Features.

His credits as Executive Producer include Escape To The Legion (Channel 4/History Channel USA) Beyond Boundaries (BBC); Dinosaur Hunters drama documentary (Channel 4 /PBS) BAFTA winner; Viking Boat Race (Channel 4 /History Channel USA) The Real Eve drama documentary (Discovery Channel USA), Demolition Squad (National Geographic / five) Where We Come From(Channel 4) Giants (ITV/Discovery USA) RTS nominated; Murder Trail drama documentary (five/TLCUSA) Survivor drama documentary (five/TLCUSA)