Iain Coyle
Iain Coyle is a successful and experienced television producer, writer and presenter.
He was the Executive Producer behind Russell Brand's "Big Brother's Big Mouth" (which also entailed dressing up a whale and horse and shouting various expletives)
And has produced, devised and written shows for all the major British broadcasters, and continues to do so - often much to his annoyance.
On screen he presented over 50 episodes of "Funny Business", ITV's weekly late night comedy magazine show, and has roving reporter stints on shows as diverse as "Last Chance Lottery" and "This Morning".
His CV, as well as informing us that he was raised by wolves and used to work in a Chewits factory, also includes the following myriad of shows...
"Shooting Stars" BBC, "I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here" ITV, "The Games " Channel 4, "Premiership All Stars" Sky One, "Dicing With Debt"
Channel 4, "No Win No Fee" BBC, "Rum" Sky One, "School's Out", "If I Ruled the World" BBC, "One For The Road" Channel 4, "Give Your Mate A Break" ITV, "Phil Kay Feels" Channel 4, Moviewatch" Channel 4, , "Families at War" BBC, "Last Chance Lottery" Channel 4,"Dating Hell" Sky One, "Incognito" BBC, "Food Fight" Channel 5, "The Waiting Game" BBC and some others that you won't remember.
He's worked with Vic & Bob, Russell Brand, Dermot O'Leary, Jonathan Ross, Alan Davies, Frank Skinner, Michael McIntyre, Ian Wright, Helen Chamberlain, Justin Lee Collins, Danny Wallace, Les Dennis, Johnny Vaughan, Mark Lamarr and other people you've never heard of, or he's forgotten.
| Television | |||||||||
| 2008 | Executive Producer for ITV on I'm a Celebrity Get me Out of Here Now. | ||||||||
| 2008 | North One Development Executive creating and pitching entertainment ideas. | ||||||||
| 2008 | Originated and developed a new prime-time gameshow for Michael McIntyre that was commissioned for a pilot through Open Mike. | ||||||||
| 2007 | Executive Producer Sky One - working for the channel on North One's Premier League All Stars with Ian Wright & Helen Chamberlain(and the spin off Extra Time with Jason Manford) 25 hours of LIVE television over 8 days. | ||||||||
| 2007 | Series Producer - topical comedy pilot with Frank Skinner at Avalon for BBC1. | ||||||||
| 2007 | Exec Producer - Celebrity Big Brother's Little Brother & Celebrity Big Brother's Big Mouth (12 LIVE shows a week) - Russell Brand's BB swansong and BBLB giving Sky News a run for it's money. | ||||||||
| 2006 | Development of late night comedy project for Avalon Television. | ||||||||
| 2006 | Executive Producer - Big Brother's Little Brother & Big Brother's Big Mouth (peaking at 1.7 million, again making it E4's most successful show ever) | ||||||||
| 2006 | Series Producer The Games Inside Track - with Justin Lee Collins & The Heats LIVE on E4 | ||||||||
| 2005-2007 | Series Producer - Big Brother's Big Mouth (Celebrity). Live 6 nights a week on C4 and E4 | ||||||||
| 2005 | Development for Celebrity Big Brother. | ||||||||
| 2005 | Series Producer - Big Brother's Big Mouth (Efourum) devised new format for the world's premier reality based discussion show, LIVE 3 nights a week. | ||||||||
| 2005 | Development with So Televison - just received a commission from BBC Entertainment for BBC1 quiz. | ||||||||
| 2005 | Senior Producer Celebrity Big Brother - devising and producing all tasks and hidden twists (Endemol UK) (I can proudly boast to have made Germaine Greer physically sick and given to the nation the image of John McCririck in a pair of lederhosen). | ||||||||
| 2005 | Lucas & Walliams, The Early Days (Channel X) - Wrote and presented special for Paramount Comedy. | ||||||||
| 2004 | Development Prod/Writer/format deviser (Hat Trick Productions)& (Vera Productions). | ||||||||
| 2004 | Peter Kay, The Early Days (Channel X) - Produced, directed, wrote and presented special for Paramount Comedy. | ||||||||
| 2004 | Gyles's Home Shopping Channel (topical comedy shopping parody)- wrote & co-produced for BBC2 (Hat Trick Productions). | ||||||||
| 2004 | Laugh Out Loud - Co-produced 'street stand-up' (Zeal TV) for BBC3 | ||||||||
| 2004 | Shrink - Produced and co-wrote self-funded pilot (Vera Productions). | ||||||||
| 2003 | Development Producer & Writer (Princess Productions). | ||||||||
| 2002 | 52 - Co-produced poker based quiz for E4 (Hat Trick Productions). | ||||||||
| 2002 | Mob Rule - Co-produced, co-devised and wrote for Channel 4 of this comedy gameshow (Hat Trick Productions). | ||||||||
| 2002 | Red Herring - Devised, wrote, and produced quiz show (with Clive Anderson) for Channel 4 (Hat Trick Productions). | ||||||||
| 2001/2 | No Win No Fee - Devised, wrote and produced two series of this daytime quiz for BBC1 (40% audience share) (Hat Trick Productions). | ||||||||
| 2001 | RUM - Devised, wrote and produced comedy sketch/stunt show for Sky One (Hat Trick Productions). | ||||||||
| 2001 | The Waiting Game - Helped devise this Saturday night Ruby Wax gameshow format. (Hat Trick Productions) | ||||||||
| 2000 | Dicing With Debt - Devised, wrote and produced two series of this student quiz for Channel Four (Hat Trick Productions). | ||||||||
| 2000-2002 | In house development producer at Hat Trick Productions. | ||||||||
| 1999 | We Can Work It Out - Short stint as presenter and writer on ITV consumer show. | ||||||||
| 1999 | One Night Stand - Co-presenter and writer with Gail Porter on LWT's regional late night 'what's on' guide. | ||||||||
| 1999 | Give Your Mate A Break - On-screen comedy advisor for Granada's primetime talent show. | ||||||||
| 1999 | If I Ruled The World - Writer on Hat Trick's political comedy panel show for BBC2 | ||||||||
| 1998 | This Morning - Short stint as presenter and writer of various strands. | ||||||||
| 1998 | Development Producer and writer for Channel X. | ||||||||
| 1998 | The Cooler - Devisor, writer, and co-presenter of Channel X's popular culture gameshow for Flextech. | ||||||||
| 1998 | So Graham Norton - Writer on pilot for Channel Four chatshow. | ||||||||
| 1998 | Families at War - Associate Producer, writer, and co-devisor of Vic & Bob's primetime BBC1 gameshow. | ||||||||
| 1997 | Food Fight - Associate Producer and writer of comedy food based panel game made by Channel X for Channel 5. | ||||||||
| 1997 | Moviewatch - Celebrity interviewer for Chapter One's Channel 4 film show. | ||||||||
| 1997 | Funny Business - Writer/Presenter of over 50 episodes of Channel X's ITV comedy review show. | ||||||||
| 1997 | Shooting Stars - Writer/Associate Producer for Series 3 of Vic & Bob's B.B.C. weird quiz. | ||||||||
| 1996 | Last Chance Lottery - Writer/ Location Presenter on Green Inc's Channel 4 gameshow. | ||||||||
| 1997 | The Last Resort Tenth Anniversary - Associate Producer of Compilation Show celebrating the best of the Jonathan Ross chatshow. | ||||||||
| 1996 | Phil Kay Feels - Researcher on Urph Productions comedy show for Channel Four. | ||||||||
| 1996 | Shooting Stars - Researcher/Question Writer on series two of Reeves & Mortimer's celebrity gameshow. | ||||||||
| 1996 | Rowland Rivron Bites the Bullet - Associate Producer/Writer on chatshow produced by Cactus TV for UK Gold. | ||||||||
| 1996 | Incognito - Question Writer on BBC1 word quiz show produced by Cactus TV. | ||||||||
| 1995 | Good Morning - Producer of various strands produced by Cactus TV for this BBC lifestyle show including Paul Ross Discovers the Real America and Incredible Journeys. | ||||||||
| 1994 | One For the Road - Script Supervisor and Additional Material Writer on six part pan-European comedy series starring Alan Davies produced by Channel X for Channel Four. | ||||||||
| 1993 | Fabulous - Researcher/Reporter this Channel X production for B.B.C. Radio Five, featuring: Mark Lamarr and Johnny Vaughan. | ||||||||
| 1992-1993 | Production runner at Channel X :- Tonight with Jonathan Ross, A Word in Your Era, Fantastic Facts, Jonathan Ross Presents Madonna, Saturday Zoo. | ||||||||
| Education | |||||||||
| Raised by wolves | |||||||||