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Job Title: Researcher - Factual Entertainment (Automotive & Restoration)
Company: HCA Entertainment
Location: London hybrid (possible nationwide recces and Oxfordshire Filming)
Contract: 2 months initially, with great potential for extension
Start Date: As soon as possible
HCA Entertainment - the team behind Shed & Buried, Junk & Disorderly, and Find It Fix It Flog It - is looking for a talented and tenacious Researcher to join our development and production team.
We specialise in feel-good factual entertainment with a strong focus on classic vehicles, restoration, and characterful contributors.
We're currently looking for a tenacious researcher with great people skills, to help us track down remarkable sheds, garages, barns and workshops across the UK - places full of classic cars, bikes, tractors and automotive memorabilia just waiting to be discovered and restored on screen.
Key Responsibilities:
* Research and identify filming locations packed with automotive treasure - from private collections to forgotten sheds.
* Build relationships with potential contributors and assess their suitability for broadcast.
Ideal Candidate:
* Demonstrates strong research and communication skills.
* Enthusiastic about classic vehicles, restoration, and British motoring culture will help but not essential.
* Self-motivated, organised, and able to work independently as well as part of a team
* A full, clean UK driving licence is required
* TV experience on factual entertainment or automotive-based series would be an asset but is not essential.
If you're a people person who is happy to talk to anyone and delve into local classic automotive museums/clubs/volunteer networks, we'd love to hear from you.
We are committed to increasing diversity both on and off screen. We strongly encourage applicants from under-represented backgrounds to apply.