Liz Lewin

Producer for television
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Biography

Liz started out as a reader for Tessa Ross and Lucy Richer at the BBC. She then went to Tiger Aspect where as well as working on shows like Teachers, and developing the American pilot of The Things I Haven't Told you, she also developed drama and comedy drama for Channel 4, BBC and ITV. During this time sheworked with a diverse range of writers including Sally Wainwright, Sue Townsend, Stephen Beresford, Lisa Mcgee, Tony Basgallop, Jack Lothian, Tim Allsop and Stewart Williams. After working for Paul Schlesinger in BBC in house comedy, and Kate Harwood in BBC in house drama, she moved to Company Pictures. 

Liz series produced E4 comedy-drama Beaver Falls, which aired for two series, and while working as an in-house producer at Company Pictures produced comedy series London Irish for Channel 4. After working as a commissioning editor at Channel 4 for a year, Liz is now exec-produced comedy series Crashing for Big Talk, and the third series of Mad Fat Diary for Tiger Aspect. 

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TV

Executive Producer

Crashing
6 x 30'
Producer Josh Cole
Director George Kane
Writer Phoebe Waller Bridge
Starring
  • Phoebe Waller Bridge
    •  

    Comedy

    Big Talk for Channel 4
     
    My Mad Fat Diary, Series 3
    3 x 60'
    Producer Jules Hussey
     

    Comedy drama

    Tiger Aspect for E4
     
    The Things I Haven't Told You
    1 x 60'
    Producer Will Gould
    Director Marcal Fores
    Writer Lisa McGee
    Starring
  • Elizabeth Day
  • Nathalie Lunghi
  • Sophie Loftus
  • Jacob Anderson
    •  

    Drama

    Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC3
     

    Producer

    London Irish
    6 x 30'
    Director Tom Marshall and Ben Palmer
    Writer Lisa McGee
    Starring
  • Peter Campion
  • Sinead Keenan
  • Kerr Logan
  • Ardal O'Hanlon
  • Kat Reagan
    •  

    Comedy

    Company Pictures for Channel 4
     
    Beaver Falls: Series 2
    6 x 60'
    Director Lawrence Till
    Writer Iain Hollands
    Starring
  • Arsher Ali
  • John Dagleish
  • Samuel Robertson
    •  

    Comedy drama

    Company Pictures for E4
     
    Beaver Falls
    6 x 30'
    Writer Iain Hollands
     

    Comedy Drama

    Company Television for E4
    In Production
     
    Bunnies
    Treatment commissioned
     
    Fresh One
     
    One In Three
    Bible and Episode outlines
     
    BBC Inhouse
     
    Frat House
    6 x 30'
     
    BBC Inhouse
     
    Kool Aid
    1 x 60'
     
    ITV Productions for E4
     
    Quadrophobia
    1 x 60'
     
    ITV Productions for E4
     
    Saatchi
    1 x 90'
     
    ITV Productions
     
    One of Us
    2 x 30'
     
    Tiger Aspect Productions
     
    How To Be A Happy Homosexual
    1 x 60'
    Writer Stephen Beresford
     
    Tiger Aspect Productions for Channel 4
     
    Bad Crowd
    1 x 30'
    Writer Conor Maloney & Fintan Ryan
    Starring
  • Brian Bovell
  • Tom Harper
  • Paul Courtenay Hyu
  • Aidan McArdle
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    Middle-class Aiden tries to come to terms with being in prison and his homosexuality. He sets out to attract he prison's most eligible homosexual, Gay Bob.
    Tiger Aspect Productions for Channel 4
     

    Associate Producer

    Teachers: Series 4
    9 x 60'
    Producer Rhonda Smith
    Director Barnaby Southcombe, Iain B MacDonald & Sean Grundy
    Starring
  • Gillian Bevan
  • Daon Bron
  • Vicky Hall
  • Ursula Holden Gill
    •  
    Comedy drama series which followed a group of immature teachers working at a high school in Bristol.
    Tiger Aspect Productions for Channel 4
     

    Script Editor

    Mouth to Mouth
    6 x 30'
    Producer Mark E. Iddon
    Director Craig Young
    Writer Karl Minns
    Starring
  • Ayesha Antoine
  • Simon Coombes
  • Pippa Duffy
  • Anna Nightingale
    •  
    Comedy drama pilot which follows of the lives of the three members of a fictional girl group.
    Avalon Television for BBC3
     
    Teachers: Series 1, 2 and 3
    31 x 60'
    Producer Rhonda Smith
    Starring
  • Andrew Lincoln
  • Navin Chowdhry
  • Adrian Bower
  • Nina Sosanya
    •  
    Tiger Aspect Productions for Channel 4
     
    Aftersun
    1 x 90'
    Producer Rhonda Smith
    Director Peter Lydon
    Writer David Nicholls
    Starring
  • Sarah Parish
  • Peter Capaldi
  • Anna Madeley
  • Juan Pablo Di Pace
    •  
    Jim and Sue married young and 20 years later find themselves on holiday in Spain – an anniversary present from their children – with very little to say to each other.
    Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC1
     
    20 Things to do Before You're 30
    8 x 30'
    Creator Liz Lewin & Jane Fallon
    Producer Sue Howells
    Director Otto Bathurst & Jonathan Fox Bassett
    Writer Ed Roe, Charlie Martin, Aschlin Ditta, Stephen Leslie & Rachel Pole
    Starring
  • Matthew Horne
  • Chris Polick
  • Stephanie Street
    •  
    A group of friends who are approaching 30 make a list of unusual tasks to perform before they reach that age.
    Tiger Aspect Productions for Channel 4
     
    Playing The Field
    13 x 60'
    Producer Kathleen Hutchison
    Writer Kay Mellor, Sally Wainwright, Katie Baxendale, Jan McVerry & Greg Snow
    Starring
  • Melanie Hill
  • Lorraine Ashbourne
  • Lesley Sharp
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    Drama series following the lives of the Castlefield Blues, a fictitious female football team from South Yorkshire.
    Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC1