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Charlie Hanson is a critically acclaimed British producer and director.
Charlie Hanson's work as a producer spans over two decades of television drama and comedy. His award-winning work includes BBC Television's This Morning with Richard Not Judy, Birds Of A Feather, Channel 4's Desmonds, Chef, starring Lenny Henry for the BBC, Kelsey Grammer Presents The Sketch Show for Fox Television, both The Harry Hill Show and an episode of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace for Channel 4, Alistair McGowan's The Big Impression, winner of the BAFTA award for Best Comedy Programme in 2003, and ITV's The Sketch Show, winner of the BAFTA award for Best Comedy Programme in 2002.
In 2003 he produced his first feature film, Amma Asante's BAFTA award-winning A Way of Life. The film, which had its world premiere at The Toronto Film Festival, was released in the UK in October 2004 to critical acclaim, garnering 12 international awards, including the Grand Jury Prize for Best Film, and the International Critics' Prize at the Miami International Film Festival in 2005, and four BAFTA Cymru awards.
He has since produced two series of Extras for BBC/HBO, and in 2008 won a Golden Globe for the Extras Special TV Movie. Most recently he has produced the new Reggie Perrin on BBC1, and Whites for BBC2, starring Alan Davies. He has produced Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's movie, Cemetery Junction for Sony International, released on 14 April 2010.
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