Chepstow and Bath-based One Tribe TV has created two new development roles and has hired two former Off The Fence staffers to fill them.
Celine Ritchie will be joining as Head of Development, whilst Peter Mills-Frost has been appointed to the role of Development Producer. They will join the long-standing development team of Aisling O’Hagan, Development Producer and Tom Harrison, who serves as the company’s in-house historian.
Ritchie has extensive experience in factual and natural history television and brings with her expertise in leading development teams. Her most recent role was Head of Development at My Octopus Teacher production company Off The Fence, where she developed the Jackson Wild Grand Teton and Grierson Award-winning feature-length documentary Silverback (BBC, France TV, WNET/Thirteen and Xumo). She has developed projects across genres ranging from wildlife and adventure to access-led and observational documentaries, crime, history, science, engineering, sport and lifestyle.
Mills-Frost also joins from Off The Fence, where he held the role of Development Producer since 2020, working across consumer, health, science, current affairs, wildlife, history and obs-docs, among other genres. Recent credits include Silverback (BBC, France TV, WNET and Xumo); Tycoons (CuriosityStream, ZDF) and Destination Wild (Nat Geo).
Dale Templar, Managing Director and Co-Founder of One Tribe, says: “While we were so sad to hear about the closure of OTF’s production arm, we are thrilled and excited to have Celine and Peter join the busy development team at One Tribe. As a company not pigeon-holed by genre, for us they bring that perfect mix of skills in both specialist and popular factual.”
Recent commissions for One Tribe include Shift The Thrift (BBC Network and BBC Wales), Ash Dykes’ Yellow River Adventure (Insight TV and CCTV) and A Kingdom in Chaos (ZDF for German-French cultural channel ARTE and Blue Ant Studios). In addition to this, One Tribe has a number of new commissions which will be announced next month.
Jon Creamer
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