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David Mortimer joined STV in November 2018 and as Managing Director, he provides creative and business leadership for STV Studios, one of the UK’s leading content businesses. His two year tenure has seen impressive growth and STV Studios winning significant commissions in both the domestic and international markets.

David has also overseen STV Studios’ investment and acquisition strategy, with the group now encompassing seven in-house labels and associated production companies, including Tod Productions, Two Cities and Primal Media. Particular creative highlights of the last 12 months have been STV Studios’ two Emmy and BAFTA award-winning dramas, Elizabeth is Missing (BBC) and The Victim (BBC).

David is a multi-award-winning producer, responsible for creating and producing major hit shows including Dragons’ Den (BBC), Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends (BBC) and Great Britons (BBC Two).

David negotiated access with the Ministry of Defence and was Executive Producer on Fighting the War, a seven part series for the BBC. Subsequently, David worked with the MOD and the Royal British Legion to deliver a week of programmes marking Remembrance Week on the BBC. He oversaw the ground-breaking BBC series The Hunt for Britain’s Paedophiles, which followed the extraordinarily sensitive investigative work undertaken by Scotland Yard’s Child Protection Unit. 

Additionally, David has produced some of the biggest names on British and American television, and has delivered critically acclaimed series for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky, NBC, ABC, HBO, Discovery, PBS, MTV, Network 9, Seven, CBC, TF1, ZDF and many other networks.

David joined STV Studios from Tinopolis, the UK’s largest independent production group – where he was Director of Content. There, he headed up the group’s overall scripted and unscripted strategy across 13 production companies in the UK and US. Prior to this, David ran NBC Universal’s International Unscripted Group, growing the business from just 12 hours a year when he joined in 2013, to over 150 hours by the time he left in 2016.

David had a fifteen year career at the BBC, working in roles as both a network commissioner and producer. He left the BBC to establish his own successful independent production company, Fever Media, which focused on entertainment and factual formats and won commissions and format sales in the UK, US and a huge number of international territories.

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