Claudia Rosencrantz
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Claudia Rosencrantz is a journalist and was the Controller of Entertainment for ITV for over ten years, and was responsible for commissioning some of ITV’s biggest hits and changing the landscape of entertainment programming in the UK. She is now Director of Television for Virgin Media
In December 2005, ITV’s Director of Television Simon Shaps testified to Rosencrantz's influence in saying that she “has been responsible for some of the biggest entertainment hits in ITV’s history. It’s no exaggeration to say that the US networks have watched and waited to see what Claudia has commissioned”[1].
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early career
Rosencrantz started her career in Fleet Street in 1979, where she worked first as a picture editor and then as a journalist on various publications, including The Telegraph Sunday Magazine, Sunday magazine and Elle, before starting her career as a television producer in 1986.
Her production credits include executive producer of Don't Forget Your Toothbrush, working with Elton John to produce Tantrums and Tiaras, the drama Prisoners In Time (starring John Hurt, based on Eric Lomax’s The Railway Man) for the BBC. She also worked with Barry Humphries on Dame Edna Everage’s shows as producer for ten years. She was one of the first UK producers to cross the Atlantic, to produce the Dame Edna specials for the US networks.
[edit] ITV
Rosencrantz joined the ITV Network in 1995 with responsibility for commissioning around 500 hours of prime-time entertainment programming a year, encompassing variety and talk shows, music specials and game shows. Her first major breakthrough hit was Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" and Pop Stars, which changed the fortunes not only of ITV but of two of the biggest US networks, ABC and Fox TV. Her next generation of entertainment events, I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!, Hell's Kitchen, X Factor and Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway remain some of ITV’s highest rated shows. She is credited with moving presenters Ant and Dec from children’s television to primetime entertainment double act.
Rosencrantz was also responsible for managing ITV’s entertainment talent roster, which has included Chris Tarrant, Michael Parkinson, Sharon Osbourne, Lily Savage and Paul O'Grady, Kate Thornton, Davina McCall,Simon Cowell and Harry Hill
Before her departure at the end of 2005, she commissioned Soapstar Superstar,Dancing on Ice,Harry Hill's TV Burp and Britain's Got Talent which have all proved highly successful for the ITV.
In April 2006 she was appointed director of programming for Living tv1, Living tv2 and ftn. In 2007 she became Director of Television for Virgin Media.
[edit] Other
She is Fellow of the Royal Television Society, Chairman of its Programme Awards Committee, and is married to the writer/director Daniel Abineri.
[edit] References
- ^ Smith, Alistair. "Rosencrantz quits ITV", The Stage, 23 December 2005. Retrieved on 2006-08-25.
