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Spencer Campbell is an award winning freelance producer and director with a broad range of experience in television drama. He has produced comedy dramas like ‘Cold Feet’, for which he won a BAFTA, crime thrillers like the award winning ‘Murder in the Outback’ and the original series of ‘Mad Dogs’, and precinct dramas, such as ‘Waterloo Road’. Most recently, he had produced a catalogue of highly-rated drama for BBC Children’s. Spencer has worked extensively, producing major drama series and individual films for all major broadcasters ITV, BBC, C4, CBBC and Sky1 HD.
Credits
Credits
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DateProduction (role)CompanyProject details
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Date: 2023Production (role): ODD SQUADCompany: BBC Children'sProject details: Children's live action educational comedy mystery.
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Date: 2022Production (role): PRINCESS MIRROR-BELLE 2Company: BBC Children'sProject details: Children's drama about a young girl Ellen, and her mischievous mirror double Princess Mirror-Belle. Based on Julia Donaldson books.
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Date: 2022Production (role): THE DUMPING GROUND 10Company: BBC Children'sProject details: Children's television drama series that focuses on the lives and experiences of young people who live in care. Based on the novels of Jacqueline Wilson.
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Date: 2021Production (role): PRINCESS MIRROR-BELLECompany: BBC Children'sProject details: Children's drama about a young girl Ellen, and her mischievous mirror double Princess Mirror-Belle. Based on Julia Donaldson books.
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Date: 2021Production (role): MY MUM TRACY BEAKERCompany: BBC Children'sProject details: Based on the 2018 book of the same name by Jacqueline Wilson.
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Date: 2020Production (role): THE DEMON HEADMASTER 2Company: BBC Children'sProject details: Reboot of the iconic 1996 kids drama, starring Nicolas Greaves.
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Date: 2019Production (role): THE DEMON HEADMASTERCompany: BBC Children'sProject details: Reboot of the iconic 1996 kids drama, starring Nicolas Greaves.
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Date: 2018Production (role): CREEPED OUT 2Company: BBC Children's ProductionsProject details: A series of spellbinding, enchanting and intriguing tales. Each episode is a different story set in a different place and time.
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Date: 2017Production (role): KATYCompany: BBC Children's Productions/ CBBCProject details: British television adaptation of Katy by Jacqueline Wilson
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Date: 2016Production (role): TINA & BOBBYCompany: ITV STUDIOSProject details: Mini series based on the memoirs of Tina Moore
Starring Michelle Keegan and Lorne MacFadyen -
Date: 2014-17Production (role): STELLACompany: Tidy Productions / Sky 1Project details: Producer of the last three series of the comedy drama set in the isolated Welsh Valley town of Pontyberry
Starring Ruth Jones, who created and wrote most of the episodes, and featuring Patrick Baladi -
Date: 2013Production (role): BLANDINGSCompany: Mammoth / BBC 1Project details: Producer (and second unit director) of the PG Wodehouse adaption by Guy Andrews
Starring Tim Spall, Jennifer Saunders, Michael Williams and David Walliams -
Date: 2013Production (role): WOLFBLOOD (Executive Producer)Company: CBBC / ZDFProject details: Award winning series about a teenage girl who monthly transforms into a wolf
Wr. Debbie Moon -
Date: 2011-13Production (role): 4 O’CLOCK CLUBCompany: CBBC (Series 1, 2 & 3)Project details: 13 part musical comedy series about the antics of Josh, whose older bother fails as a rapper but returns as a teacher at Josh’s school
Multi-award winning series featuring Doc Brown and introducing Khalil Moldavi
Directed 4 episodes in series 3
BAFTA and RTS winner -
Date: 2010Production (role): MAD DOGSCompany: Left Bank / Sky 1 HDProject details: 4 part thriller about 4 ordinary guys who get invited to Mallorca by an old college chum, only to discover he is not quite as legit as they thought, after he gets murdered in front of them
Dir. Adrian Shergold
Wr. Cris Cole
Starring Phil Glensiter, John Simm, Marc warren, Max Beesely and Ben Chaplin -
Date: 2008-09Production (role): HOPE SPRINGSCompany: Shed Productions / BBC 1 / BBC ScotlandProject details: 8 part drama series
4 women are forced to go on the run when their plot to double cross a cheating and dangerous husband backfires
Stars Alex Kingston and Annette Crosbie -
Date: 2007-08Production (role):Company: Shed MediaProject details: Development Executive
Exec in charge of developing various drama and comedy projects for Shed Media -
Date: 2007Production (role): WATERLOO ROAD (Executive Producer)Company: BBC 1 (Series 3 & 4, 20 Episodes)Project details: Popular school drama set in a failing comprehensive
Stars Neil Morrissey, Eva Pope and Jason Merrells -
Date: 2007Production (role): CATWALK DOGSCompany: Shed Productions / ITVProject details: One off romantic comedy about a couple whose marital problems end with them going head to head as rivals in the bitchy world of pedigree dogs
Stars Kris Marshall and Georgia Mackenzie -
Date: 2006Production (role): MURDER IN THE OUTBACKCompany: ITV / Film Finance Corporation, Australia / Network TenProject details: 2-hour film about Joanne Lees, whose boyfriend Peter Falconio was murdered in the Australian Outback and how she became the number one suspect
Stars Joanne Froggat as Joanne Lees and Bryan Brown as Rex Wild QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, who successfully conducted the trial to convict Bradley Murdoch
Filmed entirely on location in Australia -
Date: 2006Production (role): NORTHERN LIGHTSCompany: ITVProject details: 6 x 1 hour comedy drama
Spin-off series about best friends and fierce rivals, Colin and Howie
Dirs. Paul Seed and Tony Dow
Wrs. Jeff Pope and Bob Mills
Stars Robson Green and Mark Benton as the combatants with Sian Reeves and Nicola Stephenson as their wives
Av. audience 6 million -
Date: 2005Production (role): DONOVANCompany: ITVProject details: 3 x 90 minutes
Three episode spinoff series starring Tom Conti as a police forensic scientist. Donovan and team investigate a murder of a millionaire, a serial killer of prostitutes and a possible terrorist attack. Co-starred Samantha Bond, Ryan Cartwright and guest starred, Peter Capaldi, Christine Tremarco, and Claire King
Dirs. Brian Kirk, Ciaran Donnelly and Simon Delaney
Av. audience 6.5 million -
Date: 2004Production (role): CHRISTMAS LIGHTSCompany:Project details: 1 x 2 hours
Christmas telemovie about best friends and brothers-in-law, Colin and Howie, played by Robson Green and Mark Benton. Their friendly rivalry takes an unhealthy turn when the boys start to try to outdo each other’s display of Christmas lights
Dir. Paul Seed
Wrs. Jeff Pope and Bob Mills
11 million -
Date: 2004Production (role): COLD FEETCompany:Project details: (Series V)
4 x 90 minutes
The final four eps of the award winning series about the six friends, Adam & Rachel, David and Karen, and Pete and Jenny. This is the one where Rachel dies and Jenny returns
Dirs. Tim Sullivan, Simon Delaney and Ciaran Donnelly
Wr. Mike Bullen
Stars James Nesbitt, Helen Baxendale, John Thomson, Hermione Norris, Robert Bathurst, Kimberley Joseph and Fay Ripley
9 million av. -
Date: 2004Production (role): DONOVANCompany: ITVProject details: 2x90 mins
Stylish 2 part crime thriller starring Tom Conti as a disgraced forensic scientist and author who is brought back by the Police to solve a copycat murder of a crime he has featured in his writing. Co starring Samantha Bond, Ryan Cartwright, and Indira Varma.
Dir. Simon Delaney
Wr. Mike Cullen
8 million -
Date: 2003Production (role): COLD FEET (Producer / Series Producer)Company:Project details: (Series IV)
6 x 1 hour
Bafta award winning series about the six friends as they make life changing decisions. This is the one where they go to Australia to see Pete get married but end up witnessing the break up of David and Karen’s marriage
Dirs. Ciaran Donnelly, Tim Whitby and Simon Delaney
Wr. Mike Bullen
8 million av. -
Date: 2001-02Production (role): COLD FEETCompany:Project details: (Series III)
8 x 1 hour
Comedy drama series about six youngish couples living in Manchester. Starring James Nesbitt and Helen Baxendale. This is the one where David and Karen are the first pair to have a baby. Adam and Rachel finally get married, despite a narrow scrape for Adam on his stag weekend and Pete and Jenny split up
Dirs. Jon Jones, Simon Delaney and Tim Whitby
Wrs Mike Bullen and David Nicholls
7.5 million av. -
Date: 2000Production (role): THE GRIMLEYS (Series Producer)Company:Project details: (Series III, 8 Episodes)
Comedy series about the pains of growing up for two teenage brothers, Gordon and Darren in a truly dysfunctional family. Set in the Black Country, in the late Seventies, this series features the advent of punk. Stars Brian Conley as the boys’ sadistic PE teacher Doug Digby, Amanda Holden as their English teacher, the gorgeous Miss Titley and Noddy Holder as Neville Holder, the music teacher. With Jan Ravens and Nigel Planer as the parents from hell.
Wr. Jed Mercurio -
Date:Production (role): COMIN 'ATCHA CLEOPATRACompany: Initial / Endemol / CITVProject details: 7 part comedy and drama series about the antics of a 3 sister teen girl band from Manchester as they hit the big time
Starring Cleopatra -
Date:Production (role): MY WONDERFUL LIFECompany: ITVProject details: 10 x 1 hour
Comedy series written by Simon Nye, Paul Dornan and Amanda Swift. It centred on the troubled life of a single mum, Donna, played by Emma Wray, as she juggles a disastrous private life with boyfriend Roger, an ex-husband and the pressures of keeping her job as a nursing sister. Also starred Tony Robinson, Hamish Clark, Phil Glenister, & Elizabeth Berrington
Dirs. Keith Washington and Martin Dennis -
Date:Production (role): THE GRIMLEYSCompany: ITV (Series I & II)Project details: Comedy series set in the seventies about, Darren Grimley and his disastrous family as he grows up in the Black Country when Glam Rock was in its pomp and a Vauxhall Viva with a set of furry dice was an acceptable form of transport
Wr. Jed Mercurio -
Date:Production (role): JACK DEE'S SUNDAY SERVICE (Series Producer)Company:Project details: 7 x 1 hour comedy series starring Jack Dee, involving stand up, sketches and reviews
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Date:Production (role): WAKEY WAKEY, RISE AND SHANECompany: ITVProject details: Documentary presented by Shane Richie, celebrating 60 years of that great British institution, The Holiday Camp
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Date:Production (role): SUNNYSIDE FARMCompany: ITVProject details: 6 x 1 hour comedy series about perils of Life on the farm
Dir. Andy DeEmmony
Wrs. Preddie and Howe
Starring Phil Daniels, Mark Addie and Michael Kitchen -
Date:Production (role): THE GRIMLEYSCompany: ITV (Pilot)Project details: 1 hour comedy about growing up in Black Country in the seventies
Wr. Jed Mecurio
Stars Jack Dee, Samantha Janus and Ryan Cartwright -
Date:Production (role): PYJAMA PARTYCompany: ITVProject details: 6 x 90 minutes
Late night all girls extravaganza where a studio full of presenters and audience don their nighties and have a slumber party. Presented by Claudia Winkelman and Katie Puckrick -
Date:Production (role): KING LEEKCompany: ITVProject details: 1 hour comedy drama starring Tim Healy about a Geordie lad who applies his father’s horticultural expertise growing prize leeks to an altogether more lucrative crop, marijuana
Dir. Sam Miller
Wr. William Ivory -
Date:Production (role): GO BACK OUT (Executive Producer)Company: BBC 1Project details: Powerful drama written by Joe Penhall about a young schizophrenic and the effect his illness and actions have on his loved ones. Featured Anita Dobson. Nicola Stephenson and Andrew Lancel
Dir. Mike Barker
Prod. Richard Fell -
Date:Production (role): WEIRD NIGHT (Executive Producer)Company: BBC 2Project details: Overall exec in charge of themed evening Weird Night sought to explore rather than explain. Programmes included Fortean Review of the Year, Last American Freak show, Weird Shit Happens, Strange Days and Roger Corman presents
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Date:Production (role): LAST AMERICAN FREAK SHOW (Executive Producer)Company: BBC 2Project details: 1 hour
Documentary about the demise of the American Carnival Freak Show featuring acts like the Wolf Boys, Lobster Man, Fattest Man in the World and their impresario Wade Hall
Dir. Mike Barker -
Date:Production (role): HELL (Series Producer)Company: BBCProject details: 13 x 10 minutes
Mark Lamarr presents lightning fast trip about all the events we would choose not to relive, everything from the Driving Test to Losing Virginity -
Date:Production (role): LIVING SOAP (Series Producer)Company: BBCProject details: Ground breaking series in which six guinea pig students live together in Manchester and agree to have their lives shown each and every week. Big Brother’s older brother
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Date:Production (role): RONSON MISSION (Director)Company: BBC 2Project details: Columnist, Jon Ronson takes an idiosyncratic view of the world of celebrity pets and their owners
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Date:Production (role): THE WORD (Producer / Director)Company: C4Project details: Controversial, late night music, chat and occasional bit of buttock clenching and its spin-off, Access All Areas
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Date:Production (role): BIG BREAKFAST PILOT (OB Director)Company: C4Project details: Down Your Doorstep segments with Mark Lamarr
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Date:Production (role): CORONATION STREET (Director)Company: ITVProject details: Britain's most popular soap serial. It was the time of Bet Lynch running The Rovers and Alan Bradley beating up Rita
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Date:Production (role): STAND UP (Director)Company: ITVProject details: Comedy series
12 'new' comedians, Frank Skinner, Mark Lamarr, Jo Brand, Jack Dee & Steve Coogan featured -
Date:Production (role): FAMILIES (Director)Company: ITVProject details: Established, cast, and supervised style and design for this afternoon soap set in Oz and U.K. Starred Jude Law in his first television role
Writer Kay Mellor -
Date:Production (role): REMAKING THE DREAM (Director)Company: ITVProject details: Film documentary about one of Britain's greatest composers - Sir Michael Tippett – to celebrate his 75th birthday
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Date:Production (role): BLACKBIRD CHILDREN'S WARD (Director)Company: ITVProject details: Half hour drama about fledgling doctors and their young patients. Became series called Children's Ward
Wr. Paul Abbott -
Date:Production (role): WORLD IN ACTON (Director)Company: ITVProject details: Pre-construction of the debate about whether to allow "Cameras in the Commons"
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Date:Production (role): SOPRANO MASTERCLASS (Director)Company: ITVProject details: Australian soprano Dame Joan Hammond instructing Students from the Royal Northern College of Music
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Date:Production (role): KRYPTON FACTOR (Director)Company: ITVProject details: Brain and brawn game show
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Date:Production (role): HITMAN AND HER (Director)Company: ITVProject details: Late night disco fever with Michaela Strachan and Pete Waterman
Episode reviewed by Charles Catchpole as, “For the pissed, of the pissed and possibly - by the pissed!”