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Ben Gordon

Head of Development

With over two decades’ experience in UK, US and streamer development, Ben has led idea creation at the likes of Spun Gold, Raw and Wag Entertainment - as well as working at Wall to Wall and The Garden. Most recently, he served as Head of Development at Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s production company, HiddenLight.

Over this time, Ben has helped create hundreds of hours of content across all genres. Recent work includes The Shipman Files: A Very British Crime Story (BBC Two), the Back in Time For… brand (BBC Two), The Search for Instagram’s Worst Con Artist (ITVX/Netflix), Britain’s Secret War Babies (Channel 4), The Real Fatal Attraction (ITVX/Netflix), My Family, The Holocaust and Me (BBC One), Don’t Pick Up The Phone (Netflix/Paramount+), the award-winning Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers (Netflix), and a definitive pop culture series for a major US network.

In 2020, Ben also solo-developed the BAFTA award-winning The Yorkshire Ripper Files: A Very British Crime Story (BBC Two/Four).

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