Creative DirectorJane graduated from Leeds University with an undimmed appetite for theatre and drama. There was then something of a career swerve, as one of her first jobs saw her organising the world of troubled footballer Paul Gascoigne, as his PA, during the memorably tumultuous year of 1991. So after a brief stint running Brouhaha, a theatre company, she became a Production Secretary at 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 line-produced both the RTS Award-winning A Very Open Prison for Screen 2, and Eleven Men Against Eleven for Channel 4. Then in 1995, Tony Garnett at World Productions made the 25-year-old Jane an offer she couldn’t refuse - the chance to produce a new pilot drama, all on her own. Following that with the first two series of the award-winning, BAFTA-nominated ITV suspense series Touching Evil (written by Paul Abbott and starring Robson Green), she then produced the BAFTA-nominated BBC2 film Sex ’n’ Death for Hat Trick Productions and the acclaimed BBC1 series Glasgow Kiss, written by Stephen Greenhorn and starring Iain Glen and Sharon Small, for Wall to Wall Television.

When Jane joined Kudos as Head of Drama in September of 2000, one of her first projects was to develop and produce a shiny new series about the dangers and dramas of working for MI5. Namely, the BAFTA-winning Spooks, a show which kicked off a string of worldwide, returning hit shows for the company. Since then she has developed and executive-produced an impressive catalogue of other award-winning, prime-time dramas including Hustle (BBC1), the time-travelling, Emmy award-winning Life on Mars (BBC1) and The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (BBC1). She has also executive produced a number of more unusual, genre-hopping fayre, including the likes of feature film Pure, and TV dramas such as Pleasureland (C4), Comfortably Numb (C4), Scars (C4), Wide Sargasso Sea (BBC4), the two-part mini-series Tsunami: The Aftermath (BBC2), Secret Life (C4), and the soon to be seen Law and Order: UK (ITV1) . These singular projects complement a slate of popular TV drama that Jane and her team make for a raft of different broadcasters - including Life on Mars’ sequel Ashes to Ashes (BBC1), Nearly Famous (E4), The Dr Who Hears Voices (C4), The Fixer (ITV1), and Moving Wallpaper (ITV1).