From the heart of a newsroom, a world of imagination
Our name is also our birthplace. In the centre of the Channel 5 Newsroom was a table around which people gathered for meetings, brainstorms, and far-reaching ideathons that would shape the day's outlook; which stories would be told today, and how.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, it also happened to be the place where you would find an endless supply of treats: birthday cakes, sweets brought back from holidays, leftover Christmas chocolates, Monday pick-me-up donuts. Friday biscuits to celebrate getting through the week.
It was known as the Middle Table, and it helped spawn a thousand programmes and one very sweet-toothed production company...
Jeremy Irwin
Jeremy is an editor, director, cameraman and producer, combining an eye for the perfect shot with an ability to tell a story. This creative flair is evidenced in films for Nokia, Bloomberg and Google. Jeremy also has the unenviable role of Operations Manager, with the task of keeping projects and staff on the straight and narrow.
Alice Rudwick
As our production manager, Alice ensures every project runs exactly how it should. And there’s nothing she can’t turn her hand to - whether it's highly unusual casting requests, lightning-fast prop procurement or even creating her own DIY emergency set. Currently holder of ‘Best WFH Video Call Setup’, complete with plants and a cat.
Denisse Best
Denisse is a senior producer with a track record of bringing projects to life. Passionate, and with an eye for the interesting, she has experience in just about every type of campaign there is, whether short-form or long, photo or video, social or TV, and her vision has won over clients including Diageo and Nokia.
Sarah Hodgson
A producer, writer and project manager, Sarah has two decades of experience, both in the UK and the US. Her time Stateside was dedicated to documentaries and factual programming, while back home she has brought a creative and reassuring presence to projects for the likes of BBC, Human Rights Watch and Sky.
Louise Beale
Louise spearheads our media and presentation training department. As a current presenter and reporter for ITN, her insight into the business is as up-to-date as it comes, and her coaching sessions are as engaging as they are game-changing. Louise is also a highly-skilled producer, with recent credits for one of Europe’s largest banks.
Praise Lamina
Praise is our editor extraordinaire. Creative of mind and nimble of finger, she turns the footage we shoot into crafted, coherent stories. Aside from her editing skills, we’re most in awe of her patience and good humour in the face of producers’ incoherent instructions, and listening to the same fragment of edit over and over and over…
Nick Frost
Nick is our chief writer, so his job is to turn inspired ideas into beautiful words. After 20 years in TV news, he’s a dab hand at distilling complex information into concise and conversational language. He’s also a highly experienced producer and project manager with credits for Google, Nokia and the British Red Cross.
Jannah Zainol
Jannah is our in-house, powerhouse producer. She can normally be spotted flying to or from an international shoot for clients like PETRONAS, or creating beautiful content for the likes of Google and Sky. Jannah's contributions are as ingenious as they are meticulous, and are applied to all parts of a project - from storyboarding to post.
Kezia Clark
A true end-to-end senior producer, Kezia has managed shoots all over the world for a vast range of well-known clients. Her knowledge of the industry - and what’s needed to make things work - is as good as it gets, which means she has an uncanny ability to accurately map out a project from the get go, down to the last detail.
Fred Fenoulhet
Full of ideas and flair - and stories about his dog - Fred is our Head of Production. He has dreamt up, created and delivered spectacular content for all of our biggest clients, including Google and Sky. He also has 13 years of experience leading production teams for all the UK’s major broadcasters - the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 & Channel 5.
Adam Cottam
As well as an ace project manager, Adam is our director of photography, which makes him our senior director and chief camera op. He imbues every shot with meaning and brings the most picture-challenged story to life, and his deft touch can be seen to best effect in films about ballet dancer Michaela DePrince and India’s cotton fields.
Richard Zackheim
Richard’s 20 years in television news took in roles as Deputy Editor of both Channel 5 News and ITV News at ITN. With experience in PR, Richard knows what makes a story and what’s leading the way in media and marketing across the world. When he’s not making slightly-too-strong cups of tea, Richard oversees all of Middle Table’s output.
Nicola Bergamo
As our graphic designer, Nico sets the standard for all of our graphical output, and ensures our clients’ branding is front and centre. Those clients have been some of our most important, such as Sky, Nokia, PETRONAS and Penfolds. Always optimistic and always positive, Nico’s ‘can-do’ attitude - on top of his love of music - means he can make any project sing.