Benedetta Pinelli,Executive Producer

Benedetta Pinelli

Executive Producer, Series Producer

About Benedetta Pinelli

I am an experienced Executive/Series Producer with strong editorial and journalistic background. I have worked on obs docs as well as talent led series and I have credits with BBC, CH4, CH5, Discovery, History and Nat Geo. I have experience in 3D.

Credits

Grand Designs Trade Secrets

( Jan 2014 - Jan 2014 )

TalkbackThames

Series Producer

Shaun Ryder UFOS

( Jan 2014 - Jan 2014 )

back2back

Executive Producer

Cars That Rock with Brian Johnson

( Jan 2014 - Jan 2014 )

Back2Back

Executive Producer

Webcam Girls

( Jan 2014 - Jan 2014 )

back2back

Executive Producer

The First Great Escape

( Jan 2014 - Jan 2014 )

Back2Back

Executive Producer

Sky 3D

( Jan 2011 - Jan 2011 )

Sky

Executive Producer

Dream Lives for Sale

( Jan 2010 - Jan 2010 )

Freeform

Series Producer

Miss Naked Beauty

( Jan 2008 - Jan 2008 )

Maverick

Executive Producer

Escape to the Country

( Jan 2008 - Jan 2008 )

TalkbackThames

Series Editor

GMTV Lorraine

( Jan 2007 - Jan 2007 )

ITV

Head of Content

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Equipment

Additional Information

Industries

TV

Programme Types

Business, Corporate, Current Affairs, Daytime, Documentary, Docusoap, Education, Entertainment, Food, Health, Historical Documentary, Leisure, Live Multi-cam OB, Live TV, Magazine, Motoring, Property, Reality TV, Shopping, Travel, Youth

Specialisms

Architecture, Art, Art History, Arts, Business, Cars, Celebrity, Consumer Affairs, Cookery, Corporate Films, Current Affairs, Design, Digi Beta, Economics, Events, Fashion, Finance, Food, Gardening, Health, History, Interior Design, Journalism, Languages, Literature, Location Filming, Motorbikes, Natural History, News & Current Affairs, Outside Broadcast, Paranormal, Parenting, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Shopping, Social Anthropology, Social Issues, Tourism, Transport, Travel, USA, Wildlife, Womens Issues

Employment History

Executive/ Series Producer with journalistic background. I have wide range of experience of development, location,OB and studio work. I have worked on variety of different programmes from business to lifestyle.

May 2008-September 2008
Series Producer
Homes and Property (series 2)
ITV1 Peak
TalkbackThames


January 2008-May 2008
Series Producer
Grand Designs Live
Channel4

Executive/ Series Producer with journalistic background. I have wide range of experience of development, location,OB and studio work. I have worked on variety of different programmes from business to lifestyle.

May 2008-September 2008
Series Producer
Homes and Property (series 2)
ITV1 Peak
TalkbackThames


January 2008-May 2008
Series Producer
Grand Designs Live
Channel4 Peak
TalkbackThames


September 2007-December 2007
Series Producer
Grand Designs Trade Secrets
More4
TalkbackThames

Feb 2007-July 2007
Series Producer
Homes and Property ITV Peak
TalkbackThames

Oct 2006-Jan 2007
Executive Development Producer Phantom Pictures

Mar 2006- Sept 2006
Head of Lifestyle at GMTV


Jan 2004- Feb 2006
Executive/Series Producer A Place in the Sun Home or Away CH4

Sept 2003-Nov 2003
Producer Nokia/Kodak corporate promotion.

Sept 2001- July 2003
Head of the VT (strands) Department at the This Morning Programme ITV1
Responsibilities Included: Managing a team of 12 people ( Producers, Directors and Researchers). Writing and checking scripts for all VT's . In charge of the editorial content of each film. Development work for the show as well as for the whole of Granada Daytime.
Producing all Outside Broadcasts ( 1 to 3 cameras) Live segments for the show. VT directing and gallery outputting.

May 2001-September 2001
Free Lance Producer GMTV:
Responsibilities Included: Devising, Producing and Directing competition/travel films abroad and in the UK as well as home makeover/DIY strands.

July 2000- May 2001
Maternity Leave

June 2000- July 2001
Series Producer the Café for GMTV
Responsibilities Included:
Managing a team of 8 directors and researchers. Developing and Producing half hour live OB lifestyle shows. Target audience 15 to 30 year olds.

1998- May 2000
Producer/ Director for GMTV.
Worked on a variety of lifestyle/cookery/ travel strands. Producing and directing OB's from the Milan and Paris fashion shows.

1996- 1998
Reporter CNBC Europe
Automotive correspondent, reporting on the whole automotive industry from London Geneva and Detroit.
Half Hour to Hour long films on a variety of subjects from The decline of the British Automotive Industry to The Impact of the Kyoto Agreement on Global Warming.

1995-1996
Reporter European Business News
Daily 1minute long updates on European Lifestyle. Covering Art, Clubs, Fashion and Showbiz.

1994- 1995
William Hill International
Account Handler dealing exclusively with international clients. Over the phone bets from Middle East and Asia Clients mainly. Bets starting at £2000 pounds.

1993-1994
Founded and production managed Dead Earnest Theatre Company in Sheffield.


ACCADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

1991-1993
BA Hons in History at the University of Sheffield. Dissertation Title: ?The reaction of the Jewish Community of Hamburg to the rise of National Socialism?
2.ii.

1990-1991
History and English Literature at the University of Rome

1989-1990
Law at the University of Rome

1981-1989
Deutsche Schule Rom
German School of Rome ? German Abitur and Italian Maturita (equivalent of English A-Levels) AAB

1980-1981
Labor Schule Bielefeld Germany

1979-1980
Private Tuition in Somalia

1972-1979
Kindergarden German School of Rome


INTERESTS:
I have a passion for films and travel. I like food and entertaining. I am a member of Oxfam and a failed Yogaholic.


References available from any member of my team as well as from Management on request.
Showreel available.

Additional Information

Industries

TV

Programme Types

Business, Corporate, Current Affairs, Daytime, Documentary, Docusoap, Education, Entertainment, Food, Health, Historical Documentary, Leisure, Live Multi-cam OB, Live TV, Magazine, Motoring, Property, Reality TV, Shopping, Travel, Youth

Specialisms

Architecture, Art, Art History, Arts, Business, Cars, Celebrity, Consumer Affairs, Cookery, Corporate Films, Current Affairs, Design, Digi Beta, Economics, Events, Fashion, Finance, Food, Gardening, Health, History, Interior Design, Journalism, Languages, Literature, Location Filming, Motorbikes, Natural History, News & Current Affairs, Outside Broadcast, Paranormal, Parenting, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Shopping, Social Anthropology, Social Issues, Tourism, Transport, Travel, USA, Wildlife, Womens Issues