Primary Job Title Chief Executive Officer Primary Organization 
Wall to Wall
Gender Female
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Leanne was appointed Chief Executive of Wall to Wall in January 2014. Previously she held the position of Creative Director, from March 2011, where she was responsible for overseeing the company's increasingly diverse output across a broad range of genres including factual, drama and entertainment.
A psychology graduate of Cambridge
University with an MA in Film and Television from Goldsmiths, Leanne began her career in television as a researcher in 1990. She freelanced at a variety of independents – including Wall to Wall - and at the BBC through the early 90s and quickly rose to become a director of documentaries and factual programmes. In 1995 she won an Emmy as best director of Wall to Wall series for Channel 4/Discovery, Baby It's You. In 1995 she joined the staff at Wall to Wall and went on to direct and series produce a number of innovative and award-winning factual series and, over almost two decades, has been responsible for generating many of the company’s successful, innovative and acclaimed shows and formats, from factual entertainment to history, and documentary to landmark factual dramas.
In 1999 she took on her first executive producer role, on Peabody and RTS-winning The 1900 House, which launched the whole field of 'living history' programming and has spawned more than ten further Wall to Wall series in the UK and the US.
Her executive producer credits include dramas like BBC Two’s Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story starring Julie Walters, and Golden Globe and BAFTA nominated HBO/BBC Hitchcock biopic, The Girl, starring Sienna Miller and Toby Jones; event drama-doc hybrid They Day Britain Stopped; hit returning formats like BAFTA winning Long Lost Family for ITV1, Turn Back Time for BBC One and Child Genius for Channel 4; and BAFTA-nominated BBC One science/entertainment hybrid The Young Ones. As Creative Director, Leanne oversaw delivery of the company’s first ever primetime Saturday night talent show, The Voice UK, which became the BBC’s biggest new entertainment show for over a decade and is now going into its fourth series.
