Channel 4’s Kelly Webb-Lamb Sets Up Mothership Productions
variety.comManori Ravindran International EditorFormer Channel 4 deputy director of programs and head of popular factual Kelly Webb-Lamb has set up a new production company.Mothership Productions will focus on global formats and “ideas of scale” across the unscripted genres.
Webb-Lamb’s senior team includes Charlotte Desai, Gilly Greenslade and Gudren Claire on board.“After 25 years in the industry on both sides of the pitching/buying table, it felt like it was time to take the leap and have a go at doing it for myself,” said Webb-Lamb. “I can’t honestly believe I’ve managed to persuade such a brilliant group of women to come along for the ride with me.
We are super ambitious — and intend to make some properly great, entertaining, warm and witty programmes — and have a lot of fun.” Webb-Lamb is one of the U.K.
TV industry’s most well-respected executives. She left Channel 4 in late 2021 after five years.Across Webb-Lamb’s career, she has been involved in creating, selling, producing and commissioning a multitude of unscripted award-winning hits on U.K.
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