An award winning executive producer and showrunner with a track record of developing and producing ambitious series and features for a global audience, Fred has delivered programmes to Hulu, Nat Geo, Discovery Networks, BBC, ITV, Channel Five and more. Whether it’s archive led retrospective storytelling or access driven unfolding narrative, everything he produces has high visual ambition and rigorous journalism at its heart.

Fred’s shows are attention grabbing and critically acclaimed, spanning a whole range of subjects from history, science and pop culture to investigations, natural history and current affairs. He’s experienced at tackling tough topics, dealing with complex legal issues and filming in dangerous environments. He has secured interviews with everybody from cartel hitmen (Narco Wars , Nat Geo / Disney) to online adulterers (The Ashley Madison Affair Hulu) as well as numerous A list celebs, (80s,90s, 2000s, Nat Geo)

Along the way he has negotiated access to everything from a nuclear fusion laboratory to Pablo Escobar’s holiday snaps. Fred enjoys turning tricky subjects into good tv – his Grierson winning feature documentary After Life: the Strange Science of Decay (BBC / Discovery) took a taboo subject and transformed it into a a multi award winning doc (Grierson, BAFTA Scotland, Rockies, Broadcast Digital and more). He adapted a New York Times best seller on theoretical physics into a ratings-busting hit for Discovery Networks (Sci Fi Science). He has overseen projects all the way from brainstorm to series 3 and beyond, building relationships with commissioning editors and developing new ideas while delivering shows. He developed, pitched and won commissions for The Ashley Madison Affair, The 90s The Decade That Made Us, The Blitz , Booze Britain and two series worth of recommissions for Narco Wars. Other career highlights include producing London’s Most Dangerous Drug, the first TV show to investigate crystal meth use the UK which became the focus of debate in the House of Commons and helping create Nutopia’s ‘Decades’ brand, a successful big budget, pop culture/history format for Nat Geo that is still running more than 10 years later.

Fred Hepburn