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Commissioning Editor, Science and Natural History

Kim Shillinglaw is the Â鶹Éç's Commissioning Editor for Science and Natural History, responsible for all in-house and independent commissions in these genres across Â鶹Éç One, Â鶹Éç Two and Â鶹Éç Four.

Recent examples include programmes as diverse as Spy On The Ice – Polar Bears and Richard Hammond's Journey To The Centre Of The Earth for Â鶹Éç One, Stargazing Live and The Bear Family And Me for Â鶹Éç Two, and The Joy Of Stats and the RI Lectures for Â鶹Éç Four.

Kim oversaw the Â鶹Éç's year-long celebration of science throughout 2010 with landmark TV science programmes, online initiatives, regional roadshows and learning campaigns aiming to inspire a love of science across the nation.

Programming highlights range from the hugely successful Wonders Of The Solar System, How Earth Made Us and Story Of Science on Â鶹Éç Two, to the hands-on Bang Goes The Theory and entertaining The Young Ones on Â鶹Éç One, and Chemistry – A Volatile History, Equations, The Joy Of Stats and Beautiful Minds on Â鶹Éç Four.

Before this, Kim was Executive Producer London Factual, overseeing science programmes such as the major launch of new Â鶹Éç One science show Bang Goes The Theory, and landmark series such as The Incredible Human Journey with Dr Alice Roberts, for Â鶹Éç Two, and Blood And Guts – A History Of Surgery, Bafta-nominated for Â鶹Éç Four, among many others.

Kim has also worked in Children's, developing and commissioning the first series of Horrible Histories, and in documentaries, current affairs and strategy, both inside the Â鶹Éç and in the independent sector.