Jamie Childs
Episodes Broadcast: 2018
Born circa 1988 in Shotton Colliery, County Durham, Jamie Childs
enrolled at the London College of Music and Film to study sound
engineering. In 2008, he entered a contest to create a video which could
be used to promote Patricia Cornwell's novel Book Of The Dead.
Childs bested a field of two hundred competitors, and the acclaim led to
steady work in commercials. Seeking to branch out into drama, he worked
as a production coordinator on First Cut in 2009, after which he
made a number of short films and was a second unit director on
programmes such as The Seasoning House and Poldark.
Childs' first assignment as a fully-fledged director came on Vera
in 2016.
The following year, Childs was recruited for Doctor Who to help
launch Jodie Whittaker's tenure as the Thirteenth Doctor. He initially
directed the special video which revealed the identity of the new series
star; it was broadcast immediately after the Gentlemen's Final of that
year's Wimbledon tennis tournament. Childs then made Whittaker's debut
adventure, The Woman Who Fell To
Earth, and three other stories for the 2018 season. His last
Doctor Who work came on that year's finale, The Battle Of Ranskoor Av Kolos.
Around the same time, Childs handled episodes of Lucky Man and
Next Of Kin.
Following his Doctor Who assignments, Childs was both an
executive producer and a director on two major fantasy projects: Philip
Pullman's His Dark Materials and the Neil Gaiman comic book
adaptation The Sandman. More genre work followed as he directed
episodes of Willow, the television sequel to the treasured family
film.
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