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PRODUCTION
Production (role):
THE MARLOW MURDER CLUB S3 (Producer)
Company:
Monumental Productions / UKTV / Masterpiece
Project details:
6 x 60"

Dir. Steve Barron

Wrs. Robert Thorogood, Julia Gilbert and Lucia Haynes
Production (role):
THE MARLOW MURDER CLUB S2 (Producer)
Company:
Monumental Productions / UKTV / Masterpiece
Project details:
6 x 60"

Dir. Steve Barron

Wrs. Robert Thorogood, Julia Gilbert and Lucia Haynes
Production (role):
REYKA S2 (The Cane Field Killings) (Producer and Exec Producer)
Company:
FMI / MNET / Channel 4
Project details:
8 x 60"

Dirs. Catharine Cooke and Zee Ntuli

Wr. Rohan Dickson

Starring Kim Engelbrecht and Iain Glen
Production (role):
THE LARKINS S2 (Producer)
Company:
Objective Fiction / ITV
Project details:
6 x 60"

Dir. Andy De Emmony

Wr. Simon Nye
Production (role):
FOUR LIVES (Producer)
Company:
BBC / ITV Studios
Project details:
Mini-Series

3 x 60"

Dir. David Blair

Wrs. Neil McKay and Jeff Pope
Production (role):
THE LARKINS AT CHRISTMAS (Producer)
Company:
Objective Fiction / Genial for ITV
Project details:
Christmas Special

1 x 90"
Production (role):
THE LARKINS S1 (Producer)

Company:
Objective Fiction / Genial for ITV
Project details:
7 x 60"

Dirs. Andy De Emmony and Robin Sheppard

Wr. Simon Nye
Production (role):
REYKA S1 (The Cane Field Killings) (Producer and Exec Producer)
Company:
FMI / MNET / Channel 4
Project details:
8 x 60"

Dirs. Catharine Cooke and Zee Ntuli

Wr. Rohan Dickson

Starring Kim Engelbrecht and Iain Glen

International Emmy Nomination - Best Actor
International Emmy Nomination - Best Drama Series

Awarded 4 SAFTAs and sold in 150 territories.
Production (role):
BUFFERING (Producer)
Company:
Avalon / ITV
Project details:
2 x 30"

Comedy series starring and co-written by Iain Stirling

Dir. Martin Stirling
Production (role):
COLD FEET S7 (Series Producer)
Company:
Big Talk Productions
Project details:
7 x 45"

Dirs. Terry McDonough and Louise Hooper

Wrs. Mike Bullen and James Wood
Production (role):
MOUNT PLEASANT (Series Producer)
Company:
Tiger Aspect / Sky One (Series 5)
Project details:
Series 4 - 8 x 30"
Series 5 - 8 x 30"
Series 6 - 10 x 30"

Exec Prod. Sophie Clarke Jervoise
Production (role):
LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER (Producer)
Company:
SCP Ltd / Hartswood / BBC 1
Project details:
1 x 90"

Adapted and Directed by Jed Mercurio

Starring James Norton, Holliday Grainger and Richard Madden
Production (role):
THE LAST MOSKAL (Executive Producer)
Company:
1+1 Ukranian Broadcaster
Project details:
Following giving a masterclass on scripted series development Serena went on to create and in house scripted unit for 1+1.
Following development ideas and scripts she produced in July 2013 a comedy pilot. She brought a UK Director Chris Cottam and DOP Clive Tickner over from the UK.
Production (role):
ME AND MRS JONES (Producer)
Company:
Hartswood Films / SCP Ltd / BBC 1
Project details:
6 x 30"

Dir. Nick Hurran

Wrs. Fay Rusling and Oriane Messina

Starring Sarah Alexander, Neil Morrissey and Robert Sheehan
Production (role):
ROLLIN WID DA ROBERTS (Producer)
Company:
Hartswood Films / SCP Ltd / BBC 1/2
Project details:
1 x 30" script for a sitcom pilot

Wr. Kwame Kwei Armah

Starring Don Gilet
Production (role):
TEEN MUSICAL (Producer)
Company:
Serena Cullen Productions Ltd / BBC Switch
Project details:
BBC Switch commissioned 1 x 75" Teen musical

Dir. Ben Fuller – 9 original music tracks

Wrs. Counsell and Green

International rights sold to BBC Worldwide
Production (role):
NW1 (Executive Producer)
Company:
Camden Creative
Project details:
10 x 30" for Fiver of scripted reality series plus 40 short daily episodes

Also transmitting online as well as work with sponsors – all 10 episodes complete and transmitted on Fiver

International rights sold to Endemol
IN DEVELOPMENT
Production (role):
SWIPE
Project details:
Nicola Quilter attached as writer
Production (role):
CASA MORETTI
Company:
Co-development with The Whole Spiel
Project details:
Treatment Writer Caleb Ransom

Dir. Andy De Emmony
Production (role):
THE CONCIERGE
Company:
Co-development with The Whole Spiel
Project details:
Wrs. Caleb Ransom and Ashley Pharoah
Production (role):
OPERATION RELENTLESS
Project details:
Based on the book by Damian Lewis

Treatment by Damian Lewis and Caleb Ransom
Production (role):
WICKHAM WOLVES
Project details:
Treatment available, written by Levi David Addai
CONSULTANCY
Company:
1+1 Ukraine Broadcaster
Project details:
Script consultant

Consultancy involved creating a writers room and generating 3 new series formats of which the first, The Last Moskal Serena produced taking over British behind camera talent.
Production (role):
LEADING LADY (Executive Producer)
Company:
Dark Matters Films
Project details:
Feature film

Shot in South Africa September 2013

Serena has advised on script, UK casting and UK Distribution
Company:
Harmonica Films Sweden
Project details:
Associate Producer for development

Development of mini series with British writer Peter Jukes
Production (role):
Consultant
Company:
Rai Italia
Project details:
Consultation on development slate and structural organisation for internal scripted departments
Production (role):
THE DREAM CATCHER (Consultant)
Company:
Camera Films Bulgaria
Project details:
Series development of 12 part drama series
Production (role):
Digital Scripted Consultant
Company:
BBCWW
Production (role):
Consultant Head of Television Drama and Comedy
Company:
Pulse Films
Production (role):
Script Executive
Company:
Whizzkid Films
Project details:


Production (role):
Executive Producer
Company:
Savvy Productions
Project details:

TEACHING
Company:
Media Exchange Lab in Berlin
Project details:
Lecturer

Company:
Middlesex
Project details:
Lecturer in Film and TV Production and Screenwriting

Working with BA Film and TV Production students. Lectures and tutorials include budgets, production, development, funding as well as cross platform

Working with BA Screenwriting students
Company:
Ravensbourne
Project details:
Lecturer in Film and Television Production

Company:
Bournemouth University
Project details:
Lecturer in Film and Television Production

Working with MA Film and TV Production students. Lectures and tutorials include budgets, production, development, funding as well as cross platform

Working with MA Screenwriting students

Working with first and second year BA Screenwriting students on cross platform, single play and series
PREVIOUS HISTORY
Company:
Sony Pictures TV International
Project details:
Director of Drama and Comedy

Most notably Serena created an online multi platform teen show entitled Sofia’s Diary (140x5min). Fully funded by Bebo via brand sponsorship (eg.COI and Sure, Paramount and Skittles) and also transmitted on Fiver. Sofia also had a 2 book deal with Penguin, a DVD launched, a magazine column in Mizz, a radio show on Choice, mobile alerts etc. The international rights have been exploited in China and plans are afoot for a US spin-off series. The audience can interact with Sofia and can vote on her crucial story points. Sofia season 1 and 2 had a 26million viewership and the show on Fiver was the second highest rating show on the channel. The Third series, transmitted in June/July 2009 was entirely funded by TFL and had a viewership of 2 million


Production (role):
SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL (Co Producer)
Project details:
Feature film based on the life of Ian Drury

Developed script with writer Paul Viragh, attached director Matt Whitcross and Andy Serkis to star

Film produced April/May 2009

Released 8th January 2010

2 Bafta nominations, received Evening Standard Award for best actor
Production (role):
Head of Film and Television – Drama
Company:
19 Television
Production (role):
Head of Development & Executive Producer
Company:
BBC Drama Series
Project details:
Development of new shows and overseeing existing shows including Doctors, East Enders, Casualty, Holby City, Judge John Deed, In Deep, Down to Earth and Waking the Dead

Executive Producer for The Afternoon Plays for Daytime (3 series 5x60), Grease Monkeys ( 2 series 10x30 )for BBC3 and Elmina’s Kitchen (1x90) for BBC 4

Management and recruitment responsibilities across the whole department as well overseeing of writer agreements as well as development and production budgets

Worked with Mal Young
Production (role):
Head of Development
Company:
World Productions
Project details:
Projects included This Life, The Cops, Ballykissangel, Ultraviolet and Beautiful Thing

Responsibilities included development finances, working with scripts and new writers as well as management of script editors

Worked with Tony Garnett
Production (role):
Head of Development
Company:
ICM

Credits

  • Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Production (role): THE MARLOW MURDER CLUB S3 (Producer)
    Company: Monumental Productions / UKTV / Masterpiece
    Project details: 6 x 60"

    Dir. Steve Barron

    Wrs. Robert Thorogood, Julia Gilbert and Lucia Haynes
  • Production (role): THE MARLOW MURDER CLUB S2 (Producer)
    Company: Monumental Productions / UKTV / Masterpiece
    Project details: 6 x 60"

    Dir. Steve Barron

    Wrs. Robert Thorogood, Julia Gilbert and Lucia Haynes
  • Production (role): REYKA S2 (The Cane Field Killings) (Producer and Exec Producer)
    Company: FMI / MNET / Channel 4
    Project details: 8 x 60"

    Dirs. Catharine Cooke and Zee Ntuli

    Wr. Rohan Dickson

    Starring Kim Engelbrecht and Iain Glen
  • Production (role): THE LARKINS S2 (Producer)
    Company: Objective Fiction / ITV
    Project details: 6 x 60"

    Dir. Andy De Emmony

    Wr. Simon Nye
  • Production (role): FOUR LIVES (Producer)
    Company: BBC / ITV Studios
    Project details: Mini-Series

    3 x 60"

    Dir. David Blair

    Wrs. Neil McKay and Jeff Pope
  • Production (role): THE LARKINS AT CHRISTMAS (Producer)
    Company: Objective Fiction / Genial for ITV
    Project details: Christmas Special

    1 x 90"
  • Production (role): THE LARKINS S1 (Producer)

    Company: Objective Fiction / Genial for ITV
    Project details: 7 x 60"

    Dirs. Andy De Emmony and Robin Sheppard

    Wr. Simon Nye
  • Production (role): REYKA S1 (The Cane Field Killings) (Producer and Exec Producer)
    Company: FMI / MNET / Channel 4
    Project details: 8 x 60"

    Dirs. Catharine Cooke and Zee Ntuli

    Wr. Rohan Dickson

    Starring Kim Engelbrecht and Iain Glen

    International Emmy Nomination - Best Actor
    International Emmy Nomination - Best Drama Series

    Awarded 4 SAFTAs and sold in 150 territories.
  • Production (role): BUFFERING (Producer)
    Company: Avalon / ITV
    Project details: 2 x 30"

    Comedy series starring and co-written by Iain Stirling

    Dir. Martin Stirling
  • Production (role): COLD FEET S7 (Series Producer)
    Company: Big Talk Productions
    Project details: 7 x 45"

    Dirs. Terry McDonough and Louise Hooper

    Wrs. Mike Bullen and James Wood
  • Production (role): MOUNT PLEASANT (Series Producer)
    Company: Tiger Aspect / Sky One (Series 5)
    Project details: Series 4 - 8 x 30"
    Series 5 - 8 x 30"
    Series 6 - 10 x 30"

    Exec Prod. Sophie Clarke Jervoise
  • Production (role): LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER (Producer)
    Company: SCP Ltd / Hartswood / BBC 1
    Project details: 1 x 90"

    Adapted and Directed by Jed Mercurio

    Starring James Norton, Holliday Grainger and Richard Madden
  • Production (role): THE LAST MOSKAL (Executive Producer)
    Company: 1+1 Ukranian Broadcaster
    Project details: Following giving a masterclass on scripted series development Serena went on to create and in house scripted unit for 1+1.
    Following development ideas and scripts she produced in July 2013 a comedy pilot. She brought a UK Director Chris Cottam and DOP Clive Tickner over from the UK.
  • Production (role): ME AND MRS JONES (Producer)
    Company: Hartswood Films / SCP Ltd / BBC 1
    Project details: 6 x 30"

    Dir. Nick Hurran

    Wrs. Fay Rusling and Oriane Messina

    Starring Sarah Alexander, Neil Morrissey and Robert Sheehan
  • Production (role): ROLLIN WID DA ROBERTS (Producer)
    Company: Hartswood Films / SCP Ltd / BBC 1/2
    Project details: 1 x 30" script for a sitcom pilot

    Wr. Kwame Kwei Armah

    Starring Don Gilet
  • Production (role): TEEN MUSICAL (Producer)
    Company: Serena Cullen Productions Ltd / BBC Switch
    Project details: BBC Switch commissioned 1 x 75" Teen musical

    Dir. Ben Fuller – 9 original music tracks

    Wrs. Counsell and Green

    International rights sold to BBC Worldwide
  • Production (role): NW1 (Executive Producer)
    Company: Camden Creative
    Project details: 10 x 30" for Fiver of scripted reality series plus 40 short daily episodes

    Also transmitting online as well as work with sponsors – all 10 episodes complete and transmitted on Fiver

    International rights sold to Endemol
  • Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Production (role): SWIPE
    Company:
    Project details: Nicola Quilter attached as writer
  • Production (role): CASA MORETTI
    Company: Co-development with The Whole Spiel
    Project details: Treatment Writer Caleb Ransom

    Dir. Andy De Emmony
  • Production (role): THE CONCIERGE
    Company: Co-development with The Whole Spiel
    Project details: Wrs. Caleb Ransom and Ashley Pharoah
  • Production (role): OPERATION RELENTLESS
    Company:
    Project details: Based on the book by Damian Lewis

    Treatment by Damian Lewis and Caleb Ransom
  • Production (role): WICKHAM WOLVES
    Company:
    Project details: Treatment available, written by Levi David Addai
  • Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Production (role):
    Company: 1+1 Ukraine Broadcaster
    Project details: Script consultant

    Consultancy involved creating a writers room and generating 3 new series formats of which the first, The Last Moskal Serena produced taking over British behind camera talent.
  • Production (role): LEADING LADY (Executive Producer)
    Company: Dark Matters Films
    Project details: Feature film

    Shot in South Africa September 2013

    Serena has advised on script, UK casting and UK Distribution
  • Production (role):
    Company: Harmonica Films Sweden
    Project details: Associate Producer for development

    Development of mini series with British writer Peter Jukes
  • Production (role): Consultant
    Company: Rai Italia
    Project details: Consultation on development slate and structural organisation for internal scripted departments
  • Production (role): THE DREAM CATCHER (Consultant)
    Company: Camera Films Bulgaria
    Project details: Series development of 12 part drama series
  • Production (role): Digital Scripted Consultant
    Company: BBCWW
    Project details:
  • Production (role): Consultant Head of Television Drama and Comedy
    Company: Pulse Films
    Project details:
  • Production (role): Script Executive
    Company: Whizzkid Films
    Project details:

  • Production (role): Executive Producer
    Company: Savvy Productions
    Project details:
  • Company
    Project details
  • Company: Media Exchange Lab in Berlin
    Project details: Lecturer

  • Company: Middlesex
    Project details: Lecturer in Film and TV Production and Screenwriting

    Working with BA Film and TV Production students. Lectures and tutorials include budgets, production, development, funding as well as cross platform

    Working with BA Screenwriting students
  • Company: Ravensbourne
    Project details: Lecturer in Film and Television Production

  • Company: Bournemouth University
    Project details: Lecturer in Film and Television Production

    Working with MA Film and TV Production students. Lectures and tutorials include budgets, production, development, funding as well as cross platform

    Working with MA Screenwriting students

    Working with first and second year BA Screenwriting students on cross platform, single play and series
  • Production (role)
    Company
    Project details
  • Production (role):
    Company: Sony Pictures TV International
    Project details: Director of Drama and Comedy

    Most notably Serena created an online multi platform teen show entitled Sofia’s Diary (140x5min). Fully funded by Bebo via brand sponsorship (eg.COI and Sure, Paramount and Skittles) and also transmitted on Fiver. Sofia also had a 2 book deal with Penguin, a DVD launched, a magazine column in Mizz, a radio show on Choice, mobile alerts etc. The international rights have been exploited in China and plans are afoot for a US spin-off series. The audience can interact with Sofia and can vote on her crucial story points. Sofia season 1 and 2 had a 26million viewership and the show on Fiver was the second highest rating show on the channel. The Third series, transmitted in June/July 2009 was entirely funded by TFL and had a viewership of 2 million


  • Production (role): SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL (Co Producer)
    Company:
    Project details: Feature film based on the life of Ian Drury

    Developed script with writer Paul Viragh, attached director Matt Whitcross and Andy Serkis to star

    Film produced April/May 2009

    Released 8th January 2010

    2 Bafta nominations, received Evening Standard Award for best actor
  • Production (role): Head of Film and Television – Drama
    Company: 19 Television
    Project details:
  • Production (role): Head of Development & Executive Producer
    Company: BBC Drama Series
    Project details: Development of new shows and overseeing existing shows including Doctors, East Enders, Casualty, Holby City, Judge John Deed, In Deep, Down to Earth and Waking the Dead

    Executive Producer for The Afternoon Plays for Daytime (3 series 5x60), Grease Monkeys ( 2 series 10x30 )for BBC3 and Elmina’s Kitchen (1x90) for BBC 4

    Management and recruitment responsibilities across the whole department as well overseeing of writer agreements as well as development and production budgets

    Worked with Mal Young
  • Production (role): Head of Development
    Company: World Productions
    Project details: Projects included This Life, The Cops, Ballykissangel, Ultraviolet and Beautiful Thing

    Responsibilities included development finances, working with scripts and new writers as well as management of script editors

    Worked with Tony Garnett
  • Production (role): Head of Development
    Company: ICM
    Project details:

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