Anne has worked at a number of the major UK children’s TV companies. Starting at Thames TV she moved to BBC Education where she produced the multi-award winning programmes Nice Girls Don’t Swear and Shakespeare Shorts. As Executive Producer she looked after an exceptionally diverse and mind stretching range of programmes which included Teletubbies and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman!

After a short period at Disney International, she moved to Granada Kids as Head of Drama and then became Controller in 2004 leading a thriving production department with a broad slate of programming, spanning pre-school, animation, entertainment and drama. The drama portfolio includes over 100 episodes of the multi award winning My Parents Are Aliens which frequently voted favourite kids’ show in the UK; Girls in Love one of Granada International’s best selling teen series, and the phenomenally successful single drama, The Illustrated Mum starring Michelle Collins, which won two BAFTAs as well as an International Emmy.

In pre-school Anne was Executive Producer on Pocoyo a show that has received both critical and commercial success including a BAFTA an EMIL award and Pulchinella award for best pre-school and European programme, amongst others. Anne founded Kindle Entertainment together with Melanie Stokes, in 2007. Kindle’s first live-action comedy, My Spy Family for Cartoon Network, launched on Boomerang UK in September 2007; a second series followed in 2008. Big & Small, a pre-school show celebrating difference, in which Lenny Henry voices both Big and Small, launched on Cbeebies in October 2008. Kindle are currently in production on Jinx, a new series for CBBC, and Anywhere But Here, for BBC Learning/BBC3. Kindle’s first feature film Journey through Midnight goes into production later this year, and the company has a very exciting development slate for a number of broadcasters including, the BBC, Sky and UKFC.