JOHN POCOCK Producer
John Pocock is an experienced development and production producer working across both television and radio.
FILM
2021 POLITE SOCIETY Produced for Working Title Written by Nida Manzoor
TELEVISION
2021 WE ARE LADY PARTS Produced for Working Title and Channel 4 Written by Nida Manzoor
2017 - 2019 SICK OF IT Comedy drama series for Sky1 Written by Karl Pilkington and Richard Yee Featuring Karl Pilkington (Exec, Jon Mountague, Krish Majumdar & Richard Yee)
2017 STATIC TX pilot for BBC1/Zeppotron Productions Sitcom written by Rob Beckett and Shaun Pye Featuring Rob Beckett, Alison Steadman and Phil Davis (Exec, Shane Allen & Alex Moody)
TIM VINE TRAVELS IN TIME TX pilot for BBC1/Baby Cow Productions Pilot written by and starring Tim Vine and John Archer Featuring Sally Phillips, Tim Key, Spencer Jones and Mandeep Dhillon (Exec, Christine Langan, Paul Schlesinger, Shane Allen, Alex Moody)
2016 CHEWING GUM SERIES 2 Series producer for E4 Written by and starring Michaela Coel (Exec, Jon Rolph and Nana Hughes)
2016 SPLIT Produced pilot for ITV1 written by Roy Clarke and starring Alison Steadman, Sue Johnston, Larry Lamb, Peter Egan and Ian Lavender (Exec, Jon Rolph and Nana Hughes)
2015 - 2016 BBC COMEDY PRODUCER/DEVELOPMENT PRODUCER Working at BBC in-house John developed and produced scripts for both BBC3 and BBC1 (Exec, Myfanwy Moore)
2014 - 2016 HORRIBLE SCIENCE Developed format and pitch for comedy science show Produced 10 part series featuring Ben Miller for ITV1/CITV (Exec, Jimmy Mulville and Ben Miller)
2014 SOME GIRLS Worked closely with the writer Bernadette Davis to develop and produce the third series For BBC3 (Exec, Helen Williams)
HAT TRICK (IN-HOUSE DEVELOPMENT TEAM) John’s remit was to develop half hour narrative comedy for all broadcasters
2013 - 2014 THE KUMARS Series producer for Sky1 comedy Worked closely with actors and writers to produce a weekly comedy chat show (Exec, Helen Williams and Jimmy Mulville)
2013 SILENT SKETCH SHOW Produced half hour sketch show pilot for Sky1 starring Ben Miller (Exec, Jimmy Mulville)
RIDES Producer of pilot written by the Dawson Brothers for ITV2 Cast included Morwenna Banks, Sara Pascoe, Steve Edge and Hale & Pace (Exec, Myfanwy Moore and Nana Hughes)
BAD TEETH Developed and produced sketches featuring a range of comedic and acting talent including Daniel Radcliffe, Brian Blessed, Kayvan Novak and Damien Lewis for Hat Trick’s comedy YouTube channel (Exec, Jon Davenport and Jimmy Mulville)
2012 ‘SNOW’ WHITECHAPEL Producer of spoof ITV drama ‘Whitechapel’ for ITV’s TEXT SANTA charity night Written by Steve Pemberton and starring Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis, Brenda Blethyn and Lesley Sharp
THE REVOLTING WORLD OF STANLEY BROWN Series producer of CBBC sitcom pilot (Exec, Jon Rolph)
2011 HOTEL TRUBBLE Series producer of CBBC sitcom (series 1, 2, and 3) Responsible for recommission and producing all three series (Exec, Steven Andrew and Connal Orton)
2010 HOUNDED Producer of 13 part CBBC sitcom featuring Rufus Hound (Exec, Jack Cheshire)
2005 - 2010 BBC COMEDY DEPARTMENT Development producer (Exec, Mob Dar, Jon Plowman and Mark Freeland)
2008 THINGS TALK Producer of BBC3 animated sitcom pilot written by Stefan Golaszewski Featuring of the voices of Les Dennis, Dom Joly and Leslie Phillips (Exec, Jane Berthoud)
2007 MEEBOX Producer for BBC3 Written by and featuring Adam Buxton
2006 MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE’S TROPHY PEOPLE Producer for BBC2 & 4 series
RADIO
2015 - 2016 BBC COMEDY PRODUCER/DEVELOPMENT PRODUCER Produced Jocelyn Jee Esien’s new Radio 4 comedy series whilst working at BBC in-house
2011 - 2012 BBC RADIO COMEDY BBC in-house producer Responsible for developing and producing across a number of shows for Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra including PEARL & DAVE (written and performed by Isy Suttie) and NEWS QUIZ EXTRA (hosted by Sandi Toksvig)
ADDITIONAL INFO
Overseas filming includes: France, Mexico, New York, Miami, Las Vegas and Los Angeles