{"id":3259,"date":"2019-02-12T11:59:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T11:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.productionbase.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2019-02-12T12:01:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T12:01:05","slug":"meet-the-speakers-amelia-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.productionbase.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/02\/12\/meet-the-speakers-amelia-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Speakers: Amelia Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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 Thursday 28th February<\/b>\u00a0we will be joined by Amelia Brown<\/strong>, Managing Director of Thames Television, who will be discussing the making of BBC One’s new Saturday night sensation, The Greatest Dancer<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Our Guest Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nBack in 2002, Amelia began her journey in TV working as a Researcher on The British Comedy Awards<\/em> for Michael Hurl Television. During this period Amelia met the Series Producer from Pop Idol<\/em>, and in 2003 she began working as a Production Secretary on the show. From there Amelia’s career took off, and by 2004 was working on the first series of the The\u00a0X Factor<\/em>, working her way through the ranks until she was appointed Series Producer in 2009.<\/p>\n

In 2011 Amelia made the move from the UK to the US, working as the Supervising Producer on The X Factor USA<\/em>, in particular the infamous Judge’s Houses and Boot Camp episodes. At the time, the judges included Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, L.A. Reid, and Nicole Scherzinger.<\/p>\n

Later on\u00a0in 2011 Amelia returned to the UK and started working on Britain’s Got Talent<\/em> as the Executive Producer \u2013 she continued to work on Britain’s Got Talent<\/em> and Britain’s Got More Talent<\/em> right the way through to 2018.<\/p>\n

Alongside the talent shows she also worked on series 4 of Geordie Shore<\/em> in 2012, a British reality television series based in Newcastle, where she was Executive Producer on 8 episodes of the show.<\/p>\n

Three years on, Amelia returned to The X Factor<\/em> as the Executive Producer. This time Amelia was working on both The X Factor<\/em> and Xtra Factor<\/em>, a behind the scenes spin-off.<\/p>\n

In 2017 Amelia also worked on Your Song<\/em>, a special show that was dedicated to surprising\u00a0deserving members of the public with superstar performances.<\/p>\n