Charlotte Surtees
Producer
Film, TV & Theatre
Film, TV & Theatre
After 15 years producing documentaries on subjects as diverse as terrorism, time travel…and David Hasselhoff…Charlotte moved genres into scripted and set up factual producer DSP’s first scripted slate. She went on to executive produce two of her commissions, DAVE ALLEN AT PEACE and the critically acclaimed, ratings hit, WE’RE DOOMED! THE DAD’S ARMY STORY, both written by Stephen Russell for BBC Comedy. ITV commissioned another of Charlotte’s projects, a two-part drama about skating legends TORVILL & DEAN, written by Billy Ivory. Charlotte then ran the writing room and delivered all scripts into production for a six-part Netflix series, THE LAST CZARS for Nutopia. From there she moved to Stolen Picture to develop drama and comedy projects with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
Charlotte then produced the first series CODE 404 for Sky and Kudos/Water & Power. The ambitious hi-concept, sci-fi comedy series became Sky’s fastest binged comedy boxset ever. Charlotte then reteamed with Kudos to produce the award winning and international sales hit, TWO WEEKS TO LIVE, an action/adventure dramedy with Maisie Williams and Sian Clifford, for Sky and HBO MAX, before returning to CODE 404 to produce series 2 of the hit comedy for Sky and Peacock.
Charlotte produced the first series of ITV’s ratings winning police thriller, DI RAY for HTM Television and ITV drama, written by Maya Sondhi and executive produced by Jed Mercurio and most recently she has been producing on Steven Knight's new series, THIS TOWN for Kudos and BBC.
In Development
Production | Company | Notes |
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THIS TOWN | Kudos/BBC | Producer. Series written by Steven Knight |
Television
Production | Company | Notes |
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DI RAY 2021 - 2022 | HTM for ITV | Producer - 4 x 60' drama, season 1, written by Maya Sondhi, directed by Audrey Cooke and Alex Pillai, executive produced by Madonna Baptiste, Jed Mercurio & Maya Sondhi. Starring Parminder Nagra as D.I. RAY, a police officer who takes on a case that forces her to confront her lifelong personal conflict between her British identity and her South Asian heritage. |
CODE 404 2020 - 2021 | Kudos / Water & Power for Sky One & Peacock | Producer – 6 x 30’ season 2. Directed by Al Campbell, starring Daniel Mays and Stephen Graham. |
TWO WEEKS TO LIVE 2019 - 2020 | Kudos for Sky One & HBO MAX | Producer – 6 x 30’ comedy series about a misfit on the run from a murderous gangster, the police…and her Mum - written by Gaby Hull, Phoebe Éclair-Powell and Lucy Montgomery, directed by Al Campbell and starring Maisie Williams. |
CODE 404 2019 | Kudos / Water & Power for Sky One | Producer – 6 x 30’ police comedy series set in the near future - written by Daniel Peak, directed by Al Campbell, starring Daniel Mays and Stephen Graham. |
TORVILL & DEAN 2018 | Darlow Smithson Productions for ITV | Development Executive - 2x90' episodes drama written by Billy Ivory. The moving true story of how two kids from Nottingham became the world’s most famous ice-dancers at the Winter Olympics 1984. |
THE LAST CZARS 2018 - 2019 | Nutopia for NETFLIX | Development Executive – 6x60’ series written by Sasha Hails, Dana Fainaru & Christopher Bell |
DAVE ALLEN AT PEACE 2018 | DSP for BBC2 & RTE | Executive Producer - 1x60’ comedy drama written by Stephen Russell, directed by Andy de Emmony. Inspired by the true story of how the controversial Irish comedian’s career was shaped by the tragic loss of his father, his brother…and his finger. |
WE'RE DOOMED: THE DAD'S ARMY STORY 2015 | DSP for BBC2 | Executive Producer - 1x60 ’comedy drama written by Stephen Russell, directed by Stephen Bendelack. |
Factual Entertainment
Production | Company | Notes |
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NAZI DEATH CAMP: THE GREAT ESCAPE 2013 | NGCI & PBS | 1 x 60’ drama documentary – For the 70th anniversary, this brutally honest film tells the true story of the Jewish prisoners who fought back to escape Sobibor death camp during WW2. |
HASSLEHOFF vs. THE BERLIN WALL 2014 | NGCI | 1 X 60’ specialist factual documentary – David Hasselhoff commemorates the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by taking viewers on an incredible personal journey, back to Berlin. |
FALKLAND'S MOST DARING RAID 2012 | DSP for Channel 4 | 1 x 60’ drama documentary about the incredible true story of how the RAF mounted the longest-range bombing mission in history with little more than good luck, guts and superglue. |
HOW TO BUILD A BIONIC MAN 2013 | Channel 4 & Smithsonian Channel | 1x 60’ specialist factual science documentary following Dr. Bertolt Meyer as he attempts the ultimate engineering challenge; to build an entirely manmade human. Grierson Award for Best Science/Natural History Programme, 2013 |
BRICK BY BRICK: REBUILDING OUR PAST 2012 | BBC2 | 3 x 60’ architectural history series presented by Dan Cruikshank and Charlie Luxton following historic buildings snatched from the jaws of demolition and lovingly rebuilt brick by brick. |
CONCORDE'S LAST FLIGHT 2010 | DSP for Channel 4 | 1 x 90’ drama documentary special revealing the untold story behind the crash of the world’s first and last supersonic passenger jet. TX 2011. CINE Special Jury Award, Science & Technology, 2012 |
FIGHTING THE RED BARON 2010 | DSP for Channel 4 | 1 X 90’ drama documentary special following two former RAF Red Arrows pilots as they embark on a mission to discover the origins of aerial warfare in World War I. |
ROME WASN’T BUILT IN A DAY 2011 | Channel 4 | 6 x 60’ living history series following six modern builders’ attempt to construct an authentic, life- sized Roman villa for English Heritage using only Roman building methods and tools. |
MIRACLE OF THE HUDSON PLANE CRASH 2009 | DSP for Channel 4 | 1 x 60’ fast turnaround drama documentary about Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenburger’s plane landing on the Hudson River; the first and definitive documentary broadcast just after the accident. |
SECONDS FROM DISASTER: US EMBASSY BOMBINGS 2006 | National Geographic Channel | 1 X 60’ drama documentary exploring the 1998 Al-Qaeda terrorist attack on the US embassy in Kenya, movingly told by its survivors. |
THE WORLD'S FIRST TIME MACHINE 2003 | TLC for Channel 4 | 1 x 60’ documentary - after the tragic death of his father, American physics professor Ron Mallet takes on the biggest challenge in modern science – to build a working time machine. |