ITV Studios appoints Julie Clark as director of production for UK drama labels

ITV Studios (ITVS) has hired Julie Clark from Studio Lambert as director of production for its UK drama labels.

Julie Clark

Clark, who had been Studio Lambert’s head of production for drama since 2018, will work across ITVS’s drama labels, which include Happy Prince, Jeff Pope’s Factual Drama, Patrick Spence, 5 Acts, Tall Story Pictures, Silverprint Pictures and Quay Street Productions.

She will report to Matt Cleary, ITVS director of production for scripted in the UK.

Clark has most recently been leading production on Nautilus, the new live-action drama series for Disney+ based on Jules Verne’s classic novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, as well as working on The Feed for Amazon Prime Video and The Nest and Three Families for BBC One.

Ian Hogan will take on on her role as production executive on Nautilus, a coproduction between Seven Stories and Moonriver TV. His recent credits include producing the new series of historical drama Sanditon (Masterpiece/BritBox) and coproducing 12 episodes of dystopian anthology series Black Mirror (Netflix).

Prior to joining Studio Lambert, Clark was senior production executive at Left Bank Pictures, where she oversaw shows such as Outlander, Electric Dreams, The Replacement and The Halcyon. Before that, she was at BBC Drama, working across titles including Luther, Our Girl and Silent Witness.

Cleary said: “Julie will bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to our fast-growing scripted business, which is home to some of the best creative talent in the UK. As ITV Studios drama has continued to increase in size, so we have needed to build on the brilliant production talent base we have here, and Julie joining us only serves to strengthen that.”

Clark added: “Joining ITV Studios at this stage in their expansion is a tremendously exciting opportunity. I’m really looking forward to collaborating with all those wonderfully eclectic drama labels and to help maximise their potential in such a vibrant marketplace”.