Head of Comedy, ITV

Nana Hughes

Overview and Experience

Nana is a BAFTA, RTS & Broadcast award winning comedy Executive Producer and founder of indie, Saturday’s Child. Prior to that, she was Head of Comedy at Talkback and Head of Development at Retort, where she exec produced Chewing Gum. She started her career in comedy and entertainment before joining C4 as Deputy Commissioning Editor, for comedy and entertainment. Current projects at ITV Include; Spitting Image for Britbox and Buffering for ITV2.

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