Masterclass Diary

11 October 2007

Producer's Masterclass with Mervyn Watson 

Special Event for BAFTA Cymru Members and 10 selected SSAW students.

Son of a Welshman and BAFTA Award Winning Producer, Mervyn was most recently the Executive Producer at the BBC for Casualty and Dalziel and Pascoe.

He started his career as a writer (for both Theatre and Television) and he had two 60’ single dramas produced, Hands for Thames Television and Family Man for Yorkshire TV. Mervyn then moved into TV production and he produced over 700 episodes of Coronation Street, during two stints as Producer.

He also produced the series First Amongst Equals, Floodtide and Wipeout. He then moved across to Yorkshire TV as Deputy Head of Drama and Producer of Emmerdale where he produced 464 episodes. In 1991 he moved to the BBC where he produced Casualty and Down to Earth before his promotion to Executive Producer.