Name Lavinia Warner Role Television writer | Books Women beyond the wire | |
Nominations British Academy Television Award for Best Single Documentary, AACTA Award for Best Telefeature or Mini Series Movies and TV shows Tenko, Wish Me Luck, Do or Die Similar Claire Oberman, Ann Bell, Ken Riddington, Stephanie Cole, Kate Buffery | ||
Lavinia Warner is a British television writer and producer. She created several successful TV series in the 80s and 90s, all of which featured women in the leading roles. These included the World War II female internee drama Tenko (1981-5) for the BBC, secret agent drama Wish Me Luck (1988–90) for LWT and the taxi-firm series Rides (1992-3), again for the BBC. For the latter two series she also acted as producer. Warner is now the CEO of Warner Sisters, an independent production company.
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Career
After studying history and psychology at university, Warner became a PA in the drama department at LWT, before moving on to Thames Television as a researcher, mainly on This is Your Life. After this she worked in the BBC Features, Current Affairs and Drama departments as a freelance producer and director. After the launch of Channel 4 in 1982, she set up her own independent production company, Warner Sisters, which initially focussed on making television programmes.