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TIGRESS PRODUCTIONS PURSUES EXPANSION STRATEGY WITH SENIOR APPOINTMENTS

Pete Lawrence, Head of BBC Features Production, will join Endemol-owned Tigress Productions as Creative Director in 2014.

Claire Urquhart, former Head of BBC Features Development, Pan UK, has joined Tigress as Head of Development.

Their appointments are part of a new initiative to further expand Tigress’s output by adding a portfolio of innovative features and factual entertainment programming to the company’s growing slate of specialist factual, wildlife and adventure series.

The expansion strategy is being driven by Dick Colthurst, Managing Director of Tigress Productions, and overseen by Colette Foster, Joint Managing Director of Remarkable Television.

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Awards

Winner: Popular Broadcast Award

2016
John Bishop's Gorilla Adventure - Wildscreen Panda Awards

2016 West of England RTS Awards – Best Daytime and Early Peak

2016
Operation Meet the Street

Hippo: Nature’s Wild Feast

2012
Panda Award : Wildscreen

Awards List

  • International Wildlife Film Festival: Honorable Mentions for Historical Perspectives and Technological Advancement
    Birds of Paradise
  • Best Human-Wildlife Interaction Award : International Wildlife Film Festival
    Black Mamba White Witch
  • Wildlife & Natural History Programs Award : 30th Banff World Television Awards
    Titus: The Gorilla King
  • Best Animal Behaviour Programme Award : Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival
    Titus: The Gorilla King
  • Best Direction in a Lifestyle/Practical Information Series :Canadian Gemini Awards
    Austin Stevens Adventures
  • Best Daytime/Factual Entertainment Award : RTS West of England awards
  • Special Jury Prize : RTS West of England awards
    Everest: Beyond the Limit Season 2