Jane Elizabeth Featherstone (born March 1969) is an English television producer and founder of Sister Pictures, a global TV and film production and development company. Prior to that, she was the chief executive of

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and co-chairman of Shine UK, now part of

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Biography

Featherstone was educated at Old Palace School and the

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. Prior to joining Kudos, Featherstone produced the first two series of '' Touching Evil'' and the BBC2 film ''Sex ‘n’ Death''. She worked at

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where she worked on '' Whose Line Is It Anyway?'', '' Have I Got News For You'', and '' Drop The Dead Donkey''. Featherstone joined Kudos in 2000 as Head of Drama. She became Creative Director in 2008 and the company's Chief Executive in 2011. Whilst at Kudos, she executive produced '' Spooks'', ''

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'', '' Ashes to Ashes'', ''

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'', '' The Tunnel'', and ''

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''. Most recently she has executive produced ''River'' by Abi Morgan for BBC1/Netflix, ''

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'' written b
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and the Spooks movie '' The Greater Good''. Featherstone founded the global TV and film production and development company Sister Pictures in November 2015 to develop stories for UK and international audiences. Sister Pictures' current projects include ''The Split'' by Abi Morgan for BBC 1, ''Clean Break'' for ITV 1 starring Sheridan Smith, '' The Power'', and ''The Bisexual'' for Channel 4. Sister Pictures is also a co-producer of ''

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'' for Channel 4 and ''

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'' for ITV. Featherstone's other credits include '' Mayday'' (BBC1) and series 1 and 2 of '' The Hour'' (BBC2), '' Hustle'' (BBC1), '' The Fixer'' (ITV1), '' Tsunami: The Aftermath'' for HBO and BBC2, and

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for HBO. She later served as an executive producer for the BBC medical comedy drama series '' This Is Going to Hurt''.

Awards

* Fellow of the

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(2010) * Best Contribution to the Medium Award, Women in Film and TV awards (2007)

References

External links

*
BAFTA Guru – Jane Featherstone's 2017 Television Lecture
(recorded 30 October 2017) {{DEFAULTSORT:Featherstone, Jane English television producers English women television producers People from Bridge of Allan 1969 births Living people Alumni of the University of Leeds Fellows of the Royal Television Society