Mark started his career as a trainee in Post Production at LWT’s (later ITV’s) The London Studios on the South Bank. He rapidly rose to the rank of Senior Editor, working on some of the ITV Network’s largest & most loved shows.
He later moved to join a surprisingly small team of staff Entertainment editors within BBC Resources at BBC Television Centre.
Since 2003 he has enjoyed working on a wide variety of programmes in a freelance capacity.
In addition to high profile productions produced internally by both ITV Studios and the BBC, he has also worked with the larger independent production companies. The programmes he works on have been commissioned by both the larger traditional broadcasters as well as SVoD titans, Netflix and Amazon Prime.
His CV runs from offlining the original run of LWT’s Gladiators in the mid-90s, to onlining the recent Ninja Warrior UK, to working on the 2023 revival of Gladiators for the BBC…
...from working for seven years on the legendary Blind Date with Cilla Black, to the more recent Take Me Out...
…from working in a combined role of edit-producer and editor on the most recent few series of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, to both offlining and finishing BAFTA winning The Chase on every series since its non-TX pilot back in 2009…
...and, to date, a total of thirteen
hugely prestigious Royal Variety Performances.
Attributes include
One of the last of a generation of editors that for years worked sitting next to the UK’s top multi-camera studio directors, singles Mark out as a sought-after craft editor.
Experienced in quick turn-around jobs very close to TX
Has the skillset to finish audio if time or budgets dictate including using Adobe Audition for cleaning up problems
Adept with Adobe Photoshop for advanced mattes and graphics work
Mark initially specialised in complex, multi-camera, multi-machine linear (tape) online editing but, with the advent of HD, now works solely on Avid (Media Composer & Symphony) in both an offline and online capacity.
In the dim and distant past, Mark was a highly regarded VT editor.
Mark studied Television Programme Operations at Ravensbourne College which was historically supported by the fifteen or so ITV companies, and graduated with a distinction. Whilst at LWT he additionally completed several Avid courses at the BBC’s training facility Wood Norton in Worcestershire.
In 2017, Mark sat on the panel of judges for the Royal Television Society’s Craft & Design Awards in the Sound categories.
In 2018 he was very proud to be asked to chair the panel for one of the Editing categories.
Most recently in 2019, Mark sat on the panel to help choose a winner in the prestigious Multi-camera Director category.
He enjoys photography and music, goes running to keep fit and lives in Kent with his wife and two daughters.
Mark mostly works in London but productions are able to take advantage of him being based outside the M25 if quotas/commissions demand the use of regional crew.
Since the global pandemic, Mark has invested in his facilities at home. In addition to gigabit broadband he also has Genelec monitoring and PPMs, enabling a good audio mix should remote-working be required.