Full Name
Howard Myers
Company
Foxtel Group
Title
Head of Unscripted Originals
Country (Address)
Australia
Biography
Howard oversees all non-scripted production and development at the Foxtel Group working across Foxtel channels and BINGE, including Lifestyle, Entertainment and Factual, with a diverse slate that currently includes Gogglebox, Real Housewives, Selling Houses, FBoy Island, Great Australian Bake Off and Billion Dollar Playground
He has also been responsible for true crime series Debi Marshall Investigates and Crimes That Shook Australia. Howard has won AACTA Awards for Love It or List It and Gogglebox, as well as a Silver Logies for Ron Iddles: The Good Cop and Gogglebox.
Originally from the UK, Howard worked his way through production as an Editor, Director and Producer, gaining several BAFTA and Royal Television Society nominations along the way.
Before his promotion to Head of Unscripted, he was most recently Commissioning Editor for the Foxtel Group, previous roles include Director of Production for Disney Channels UK & Europe (managing hundreds of hours of live shows and original series); Head of Formats & Creative Director for Buena Vista Productions in London & Los Angeles (supervising sales and international production of formats including The Amazing Race and Extreme Makeover, as well as scripted remakes of Desperate Housewives and The Golden Girls); and Managing Director/Executive Producer for independent production company Rival Media.
Howard has a cat called Mouse.
What we're looking for from Ready, Steady, Pitch!
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UNSCRIPTED TV
In Unscripted, we cover a broad range of genres, with a current focus on unique, must-see/must-have, ideas that can help attract and grow our BINGE subscribers, as well as evergreen returnable formats in expert-led Lifestyle or Fact-Ent for the wider viewership across our Foxtel platforms.
Before pitching, do think about our audiences and different platforms, making sure you know what programmes we currently have in our schedules, so that your pitch can be focussed and different. Interesting access and great talent always helps. Most of all, surprise us with something we haven’t seen before!
If your idea lends itself to non-traditional production funding, we’d be interested to hear about that too.
