Big Mountain Adds to Production Team

BELFAST: Big Mountain Productions is expanding with the appointment of Donna Higgins as the head of production and Lucy Wedlock to the newly created position of series producer.

Higgins is a line producer with 20 years of experience. She has worked in the U.K., the U.S. and Canada covering entertainment, lifestyle, music, drama, factual documentaries and more. Higgins has worked as a senior production manager at the U.K.’s Dragonfly Film & Television and has line-produced a number of projects for Blast Films and Double Act Films. Her recent credits include Web of Lies (Blast Films for Investigation Discovery), Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (Double Act Films for Animal Planet) and Flying to the Ends of the Earth (Blast Films for Channel 4).

Wedlock joins Big Mountain Productions with a host of series production and directing roles with major broadcasters including Channel 4, ITV, BBC Three and RTÉ under her belt. Her credits include One Born Every Minute (Channel 4), Four in a Bed (Channel 4), Come Dine with Me, (Channel 4), I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! (ITV), Don’t Drop the Baby (BBC Three) and Ireland’s Fittest Family (RTÉ 1).

Jane Kelly, the creative director of Big Mountain, said, “We are now reaping the rewards of years of hard work into building relationships both at home and, specifically, in the U.K. and U.S. We need an extraordinary team that can manage and deliver the commissions that we have on the table and the slate we hope to finalize in 2016, which is shaping up to be our biggest year ever. We have found in Donna and Lucy the qualities that we need to embed a team with the talent, energy and vision needed to help us realize our ambitions.”

Philip McGovern, Big Mountain’s managing director, commented, “We want to push through on the approach and success of award-winning Wild Ireland for ITV, which got an average 3.2 million viewers putting together the best teams from Ireland and the U.K. to deliver to the broadcasters.”