Jane Featherstone
Jane Featherstone is the Creative Director of Kudos Film and Television.After graduating from Leeds University, and following a stint as Paul Gascoigne’s PA, Jane joined Hat Trick productions where she worked on landmark comedy shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Have I Got News For You and Drop the Dead Donkey.
Playing a key role in Hat Trick’s move into drama, Jane then worked on both the RTS award-wining A Very Open Prison for BBC2, and Eleven Men Against Eleven for Channel 4. She then produced the first two series of Paul Abbot’s award-winning ITV thriller Touching Evil.
Jane then went on to produce the BAFTA nominated BBC2 film Sex ‘n’ Death and the acclaimed BBC1 series Glasgow Kiss for Wall to Wall Television.When Jane joined Kudos as Head of Drama in September 2000, she was responsible for getting the BAFTA winning series Spooks off the ground; a show which has become a worldwide hit for the company.
Since then she has developed and executive-produced an impressive catalogue of other award-winning shows - including the double Emmy winning Life on Mars (BBC1), Life on Mars’ sequel Ashes to Ashes (BBC1), The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (BBC1) and Hustle (BBC1), and has built the company into a leading force in UK and global drama.
These projects complement a slate of programming that Jane and her team make for a raft of different broadcasters – including Law and Order: UK (ITV1), MI High (CBBC), Moving Wallpaper and Echo Beach (ITV) and Occupation (ITV1).
Other credits include Pleasureland (C4), Comfortably Numb (C4), Scars (C4), Wide Saragasso Sea (BBC4), the two-part mini-series Tsunami: The Aftermath (BBC2), Secret Life (C4), The Fixer (ITV1) and the soon to be broadcast Lip Service (BBC3).
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