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Stephen
Garrett's passion for shepherding new and exciting talent started
at Channel 4, where he was commissioning editor for youth programmes
from 1987 to 1992. This followed an apprenticeship as researcher,
then freelance producer/director at Granada, Tyne Tees, Southern
and the BBC. At C4 Stephen gave “first breaks” to a
wide range of writers and directors, including such now-established
talents as "The Full Monty" director Peter Cattaneo and
its writer Simon Beaufoy. Responsible for over 100 hours of broadcasting
a year, Stephen was involved in everything from the youth drama
Teenage Health Freak (directed by Cattaneo), post-punk magic show
The Secret Cabaret and the ground-breaking late-night love-it-or-loathe-it
series The Word. Stephen left to co-found Kudos, which immediately
distinguished itself with a host of innovative, unusual and provocative
programming, including the seriocomic religious quest series Desperately
Seeking Something, and the controversial poverty-themed game show
Come On Down and Out.
Stephen's first notable film success with Kudos was the Beaufoy-penned,
critically hailed drama Among Giants, which Stephen produced. Since
then, Stephen's list of producing credits has been equally impressive,
from Psychos (executive producer) to Pure (joint executive producer)
to The Magician's House (executive producer). After bringing on
Jane Featherstone as a partner to invigorate Kudos’ TV arm,
the company has galvanized British television with the popular,
acclaimed shows Spooks (the first series of which Stephen executive
produced) and Hustle. Recently Stephen invited former Film Four
head Paul Webster to join himself and Jane Featherstone as a partner
in an exciting new stand-alone film-making entity: Kudos Pictures.
Stephen studied law at Oxford, where he also edited the university
magazine Isis, and counts his first media break as a 6-year-old
extra in two Milky Bar Kid commercials.
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