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Next month we will be returning to\u00a0The Hospital Club,<\/strong>\u00a0for the latest in our long-running series of\u00a0TV Networking events<\/strong>. On\u00a0Thursday 11th<\/sup>\u00a0October<\/strong>\u00a0we will be joined by\u00a0Derek McLean<\/b>, Managing Director of Bandicoot TV, who will be discussing his career to date.<\/p>\n Derek McLean<\/strong><\/p>\n Derek’s first job after graduating from university was working as a lawyer in America on the infamous Death Row, a job he believes gave him a “grounding for a career in television”.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Derek’s TV Career however, officially started on the British audience participation talk show, The Time, The Place, <\/em>where he say’s he worked mainly as a tea boy! From there, Derek went on to work at a multitude of production companies including; Planet 24, Hat Trick, LWT and Endemol. Derek’s repertoire includes talk shows, documentaries, panel shows, hidden camera shows and some rather big names in reality TV.<\/p>\n Derek is an award winning TV Executive with experience across the UK and US markets. Derek is known as the “go-to producer” for developing and launching new shows, given his reputation as a Series and Executive Producer. Indeed, since 2003 Derek has worked on a vast number of productions including: Wonderland<\/em> (2016), Too Posh to Parent<\/em> (2016), Work Out New York<\/em> (2015) and The Only Way Is Essex<\/em> (2013-2015). You can view a full list of his work here.<\/a><\/p>\n Some of Derek’s senior roles include being Lime Picture’s Executive Vice President and Head of Non-Scripted, Creative Director at BBC Entertainment and Head of Objective Scotland. He recently won an Emmy in 2016 for the launch of the dating show, The Singles Project<\/em> where he worked as the Executive Producer. “The Singles Project follows a group of young, successful New York singles as they search for love and strive to conquer the city that never sleeps.” You can watch the series teaser below:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.productionbase.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mclean.png\")
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