Fireman Sam

Auntie has gone for experience to mind the winding down of BBC3 as a broadcast channel. Sam Bickley becomes acting Channel Editor.

Sam says her first graduate job was as a runner for Mike Mansfield Productions - picking up the owner's specially burnt toast. Then she got a break in New York, working as an associate producer on talk shows including Joan Rivers Show, Geraldo and Rolanda. In 1997, she produced a documentary feature film called Unmade Beds - and I'm afraid that set a trend for her return to the UK.  She was involved in the production of the series "Pornography: A Secret History of Civilisation"; "Sleeping with Teacher" and "Sex Addict".

She joined the BBC in 2010. There, she has brought BBC3 shows called Barely Legal Drivers, Extreme OCD Camp, Unsafe Sex and the City and Don't Drop the Baby.  You can get a flavour of her commissioning aspirations ("authenticity over construct", "I love mixing up genres") here.