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Juliet Riddell

Directing

Biography

Juliet is a BAFTA nominated and Webby winning director with over 20 years experience across a broad range of TV and film formats and specialises in bringing true stories and important issues to life in original ways. Capture, an FT film directed by Juliet and starring Jodie Whittaker, Paul Ready and Shaniqua Okwok won the Multiplatform Series category at the Rose d'Or Awards in November 2023. She is also currently Head of New Formats at the Financial Times where she has produced and directed multiple award winning videos, collaborating with artists to explore current news stories. Juliet was previously a multimedia Commissioning Editor at the Guardian, where she executive produced an award winning short drama, a new YouTube channel and arts, current affairs and documentary series. She has over 15 years experience as a TV producer, director and development executive; including producing two BAFTA winning arts series with Grayson Perry for C4 and prime time factual programmes for BBC, ITV and Sky Arts.

Known For

Come Dine with Me
5.1

Amateur chefs compete against each other by hosting a dinner party for the other contestants. Each competitor then rates the host's performance with the winner winning a £1,000 cash prize. An element of comedy is added to the show through comedian Dave Lamb, who provides a dry and "bitingly sarcastic" narration.

Come Dine with Me

2005
The Long Walk: Towards Gender Equality in Politics
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Gender inequality is a global issue that affects women's participation in politics, education, and the workforce. While women have made progress in politics, they are still underrepresented in leadership positions.

The Long Walk: Towards Gender Equality in Politics

2025
First Cut
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First Cut was initially a strand of thirty half-hour primetime documentaries commissioned by Channel 4 Commissioning Editor for Documentaries, Sarah Mulvey. It was added to the schedule to replace the old Alt-TV show, which launched many documentary makers' careers including Marc Isaacs, Olly Lambert, Emily James, Tina Gharavi, Paul Berczeller and Morgan Matthew. First Cut aimed to access the brightest and best new talent, allowing young directors to showcase their talent before being given further opportunities on Channel 4's flagship documentaries Cutting Edge and Dispatches. After the completion of the initial two series, First Cut was commissioned for a third series which began on Friday, 9 January 2009, with a documentary entitled "The Hunt For Britain's Tightest Person".

First Cut

All In The Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry
8.0

All In The Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry is a 2012 documentary television series on United Kingdom station Channel 4, starring Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry. The series analysed the ideas of taste held by the different social classes of the United Kingdom. Perry produced a series of six tapestries depicting the taste ideas of Britons, entitled "The Vanity of Small Difference."

All In The Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry

2012
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The internet's sharpest restaurant critic, Elijah Quashie - AKA the Chicken Connoisseur - hosts a brand new review show that separates the street from the elite. Joining Elijah are his twin mates Nelson and Wilson, and the trio hit the streets to test out some of the most deluxe experiences money can buy.

Peng Life

2018
Recall Me Maybe
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Stephen Fry and Gemma Whelan star in 'Recall Me Maybe' a new FT drama written by David Baddiel, exploring AI, memory and truth. Fry plays a grandfather with dementia who uses AI to fill in gaps in his memory. While reviewing the archive of his life his family makes a shocking discovery. Which memories are really true? And how AI is defining who we are?

Recall Me Maybe

2025
Grayson Perry: Who Are You?
10.0

Artist Grayson Perry spends time with Britons facing a moment in their lives when they need to define who they are, and then distils his impressions of each of them into a portrait.

Grayson Perry: Who Are You?

2014
Capture
9.0

The search for their missing son leads a mother and father to a tech company, and a digital gatekeeper who seems to have all the answers.

Capture

2023
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Belfast-born actor Stephen Rea explores the impact of Brexit and the uncertainty of the future of the Irish border in a short film written by Clare Dwyer Hogg.

Hard Border

2018
People You May Know
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We gave up our privacy to fight Covid-19, can we get it back? An interrogation scene explored how Covid-19 has exposed the tension between the need for data to track and trace, and the right to privacy and justice.

People You May Know

2021
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A feminist action film. Zac Blank will stop at nothing to nurture his unborn child. The problem is, he's not the one who's pregnant, so there's really not much he can do.

Fish Without a Bicycle

2010