BBC NEW TALENT HOTLIST 2017

United Agents are delighted to announce that the following clients have made it onto the BBC’s New Talent Hotlist 2017.

They were all selected by creative leaders from across the BBC who were tasked with identifying emerging new talent and broadcasting stars of the future.

The list was announced at a special event last night, hosted by Tony Hall and Idris Elba. They also unveiled a series of initiatives to support new talent and to boost diversity at the corporation. This includes a project led by Mark Gatiss in which up and coming LGBT writers are given the opportunity to write original dramatic short films for BBC Four in a new project which charts a century of the UK gay experience, Matthew Baldwin and Michael Dennis are amongst the writers chosen.

 

COMEDIANS

Liam Williams

Lauren Pattison

 

PRESENTERS

Adnan Sarwar

Riyadh Khalaf

 

ACTORS

George Fouracres

Keiran Hodgson 

Pearl Mackie

 

WRITERS

Alice Birch

Catriona Knox

Frog Stone

Henrietta & Jessica Ashworth

Patrick Neate

Raymond Friel

Spencer Jones

Steve Burge

Vicky Jones

 

DIRECTORS

Al Mackay

Lynsey Miller

Rob Brown

Ruth Carney-Nash

Thomas Hescott

William Oldroyd

 

 

 

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Actors
Film, TV & Theatre
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