Owen is a factual television producer with an exceptional track record in primetime popular factual formats, specialist factual and documentary television. He has an unrivalled reputation for working with some of the top factual talent in the UK.
At One Tribe, as well as being MD, he works as Creative Director on The ONE Show – with the company now being the BBC’s largest external supplier. He recently launched the new BBC Daytime/BBC Wales series Shift the Thrift, and before that: Sky History’s Sex: A Bonkers History with Amanda Holden and Channel 4’s Jonnie’s Blade Camp. In specialist factual he ran The Truth About Antibiotics for BBC1 presented by Angela Rippon. He has executive produced a number of our long running history documentaries including our most recent series A Kingdom in Chaos for ZDF/Arte/Sky History. Owen also works closely with the development team and still directs when he can.
Before joining One Tribe, Owen successfully launched numerous new series for a wide range of UK and international broadcasters including the BBC, Channel 4, Five, Discovery and NatGeo. He has worked across numerous genres including popular formats, history, science and natural history, documentary, obs-doc and events coverage and live magazines.
Journalist trained, Owen began his career at Channel Four News before moving to the BBC where we worked for 22 years. He joined Breakfast and Newsnight and moved into BBC Features becoming a creative director running some of the UK’s most popular and enduring brands including: Watchdog, Crimewatch, Holiday (BBC 1), Homefront (BBC 2) and many more. As executive producer, he was part of the team that brought the RHS Chelsea Flower Show coverage back to the BBC. He created many BBC factual formats including Departure Lounge, The Flying Gardener, Holiday Hit Squad and Charlie’s Garden Army. As commissioning editor, he was instrumental in the launch of The ONE Show.
After leaving the BBC, Owen took the role of Head of Popular Factual at Icon Films. Here his credits include: Sleepover at the Zoo (BBC 4), Seven Days that Made the Fuhrer (Five), Secret Histories (Channel 4), Betty White Goes Wild (NatGeoWild), Animal Airport (Animal Planet) and Secrets of Dead (WNET/PBS).
His long-form documentary credits range from Cold Case (BBC 1) and Million Dollar Moon Rock Heist (NatGeo, RTS Best International Documentary).